Comments on: Gartner sez Windows is a big fail-boat http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/04/11/gartner-sez-windows-is-a-big-fail-boat/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:24:20 -0500 hourly 1 By: Jerry http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/04/11/gartner-sez-windows-is-a-big-fail-boat/comment-page-1/#comment-941322 Jerry Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:12:13 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=24538#comment-941322 What? OS X was the system re-write, not OS 9. @Fred: Yes, Apple used NextStep as the basis for OS X, but the OS was a complete rewrite by definition. MS has never even attempted anything as crazy as Jobs did with OS X... What? OS X was the system re-write, not OS 9.

@Fred: Yes, Apple used NextStep as the basis for OS X, but the OS was a complete rewrite by definition. MS has never even attempted anything as crazy as Jobs did with OS X…

]]> By: Fred http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/04/11/gartner-sez-windows-is-a-big-fail-boat/comment-page-1/#comment-651467 Fred Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:17:30 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=24538#comment-651467 Yeah, 'cause Apple sat down and wrote OS X from scratch, in the sense that "from scratch" means "not from scratch." Yeah, ’cause Apple sat down and wrote OS X from scratch, in the sense that “from scratch” means “not from scratch.”

]]> By: whiskey http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/04/11/gartner-sez-windows-is-a-big-fail-boat/comment-page-1/#comment-651386 whiskey Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:26:44 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=24538#comment-651386 7 is (supposedly) a complete rewrite... and it's microkernel has even been (somewhat) successfully used in a Vista compile (recompile?). The cloud as only means to deliver software? Yeah, i cannot even get decent 1Mbps from my crappy ISP (not US, you guys have your own troubles i know), so am i supposed to maybe do my work because maybe the Internet will behave correctly today?... If that is the case, i will go and get Linux or stay tied to XP thank you very much. They really need to rethink ALL! If 7 is really the "OMG we cool again" OS that Longhorn was supposed to be... Then maybe. But, as we speak, Ubuntu comes to version 8.04... It is not that it is better than Vista (or less if that is what you thought)... It is that, once it's out there, it will a real alternative to Vista. If the guys from, say, Adobe... were to either help to develop Wine (a program that lets you run Windows apps under Linux) or ported their software to Linux... Tons of people would think twice... An OS that runs all it's apps from the cloud? Morphix Kiosk (just runs enough linux to get Firefox started... you could bundle codecs, plugins and flash and java support). 7 is (supposedly) a complete rewrite… and it’s microkernel has even been (somewhat) successfully used in a Vista compile (recompile?).

The cloud as only means to deliver software? Yeah, i cannot even get decent 1Mbps from my crappy ISP (not US, you guys have your own troubles i know), so am i supposed to maybe do my work because maybe the Internet will behave correctly today?… If that is the case, i will go and get Linux or stay tied to XP thank you very much.

They really need to rethink ALL! If 7 is really the “OMG we cool again” OS that Longhorn was supposed to be… Then maybe. But, as we speak, Ubuntu comes to version 8.04… It is not that it is better than Vista (or less if that is what you thought)… It is that, once it’s out there, it will a real alternative to Vista.

If the guys from, say, Adobe… were to either help to develop Wine (a program that lets you run Windows apps under Linux) or ported their software to Linux… Tons of people would think twice…

An OS that runs all it’s apps from the cloud? Morphix Kiosk (just runs enough linux to get Firefox started… you could bundle codecs, plugins and flash and java support).

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