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My brother bought a new computer a few months ago with Vista on it. Unbelievably, the OS got stuck on a never-ending loop. It would boot up, encounter an error, and automatically shut down, ad infinitum.

He switched to Linux.

Originally Posted by R.D.735

My brother bought a new computer a few months ago with Vista on it. Unbelievably, the OS got stuck on a never-ending loop. It would boot up, encounter an error, and automatically shut down, ad infinitum.

He switched to Linux.

That crap happened to me too. I hate Vista.

Vista has many problems,
and not all of them are fixable

Ignoring the whole DRM issue (I feel I've said enough about that in the past)

A lot of the problems stem from the whole "Windows philosophy" that's so ingrained in both the MS developers and 3rd party software writers

Windows has always been a consumer desktop OS
(yes, the windows server versions exist - but seriously, come on - it's a desktop OS)

problem is, for the last 3-5 years, desktop machines and servers have been slowly merging

Desktop machines are becoming little mini servers
and *nix is far more capable than windows in these situations

how many people used more than one CPU in a desktop machine 5 years ago - no one
but clock speeds have near flat-lined
We've reached the peak of current CPU speeds
so parallel processing is now on the desktop

The whole philosophy of windows has been to load the newest version with big, enticing features. The early adopters complain its slow, but the main bulk of sales come from new, faster systems with windows pre-installed

This doesn't work anymore, as CPU speeds are not increasing, and Windows (and the vast majority of 3rd party software) are not efficient at parallel processing.

You probably wouldn't notice any speed difference between a single core 3Gz CPU and a quad-core 3Gz CPU
The code frameworks for efficient parallel processing are just not available for the majority of windows developers to utilize

True, Windows it not designed for servers, but I believe that *nix still dominates the server world.

MS (Linux developers too ) have to learn to harness the power of those multiple cores, it's not quite as simple as splitting up the threads because then there are concurrency issues. When running an OS specifically designed for multiple cores you can really see a speed difference.

Theoretical speeds have been nearly reached, as has the minimum size of silicon chips. They can't just keep piling on more and more cores, something big has to change soon.

The next ten year in computer science is going to be interesting. I think changes of the magnitude that we will see will drop Microsoft because of their business strategy.

They are entirely reliant on other companies to create hardware, and those companies are reliant on MS to give them the OS. This cycle makes evolution slow and big jumps all but impossible. I think in the very near future we will see the rise of another company that creates hardware and software. Someone's going to have a brilliant idea and use it.

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