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JustWaitAFrekinMinute

On 5/16/2013 12:18 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 16 May 2013 11:36:29 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:

On 5/16/2013 10:50 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 16 May 2013 10:10:53 -0400, iBoaterer
wrote:

In article ,
says...

I don't know much about android but PC users might want an OS that
will run a week or two without a reboot, either from a crash or an
update. They would also like one with a stable API so you don't need
to update your OS for the next big thing, usually requiring a new
machine.. Windoze is the last vestige of planned obsolescence

Because of the complexity of the operating systems of today, I doubt
that's possible.

The problem is that the OS is all encompassing with things that should
be optional, being coded right into the OS. It is unnecessary
complexity but part of the Microsoft monopoly thinking.
I need the same OS to take a few hundred bytes a minute from my
weather station and post it on the web as I would use to run a small
publishing company

But what is it that the system "doesn't" do for you? What part of the
system is keeping you from doing what you could do without it??

It is the amount of bloatware I need to drag around for such a mundane
task and I was actually buying new, the cost.
It is like being forced to buy a class A motor home, just to drive a
few miles to work.
Linux would be a good alternative but the number of hardware
manufacturers who support it are limited because MS has such a
monopoly share of the market.

So, if you strip the "bloatware" from the system, what would be the
benefit? Systems would be more proprietary like in the 80's and a base
system would cost 2 grand... It would not be a smaller system, still you
need a decent screen to work anyway, I just don't see what you are
suffering carrying around a few million extra bits of info on a chip as
small as your fingernail (nothing at all like having to carry around a
"class A motor home")...It is a system designed to handle as much of
what the average person throws at it as possible. If you need more than
that to run your company, it's time to hire some programmers and build
that system.

We had a company a few years back that needed such a propritary system
for their business, they paid us thousands to build it. For 99% of the
world population, Windoze will do anything they need it to do.