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IT Investor's Journal: Has Microsoft peaked?
solarismka:
quote:Originally posted by WMD:
I hope you're not talking about the kernel that 3.x ran on.
I'd say, though, that the 3.1 API was a lot more streamlined than that of late. Therefore, what you want to say, MC, is "Strip things down to NT 3.1, and start from there." ;)
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But didn't they say that they are building Longhorn from scratch? I know they have already said it about win95/2k and XP!
Nate:
quote:Originally posted by kn0wn:
But didn't they say that they are building Longhorn from scratch? I know they have already said it about win95/2k and XP!
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It's deffinatly not coming from scratch. The betas are the reincarnation of XP (although, in fact, most of it IS XP).
WMD:
Building Longhorn from scratch would fuck MS over. Not the plan.
Longhorn now is essentially XP with a new API layer added, supposedly for security or something. It's slow. Period.
Nate:
quote:Originally posted by WMD:
Building Longhorn from scratch would fuck MS over. Not the plan.
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That's hardly true, working from scratch would allow MS to fix all the problems they have now (besides legal). It may cause initia hardware problems, but it will allow Windows to live on. On the course that Windows is on, it won't exist within the next decade or two.
WMD:
If MS broke all existing apps, their monopoly would be in grave danger. People would be waiting for new apps, and Linux people would be talking about how they already have more than Longhorn (which would be true for a time). If people then listen, Windows won't have that 93%+ market share that MS thrives on.
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