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IT Investor's Journal: Has Microsoft peaked?
solarismka:
quote:Originally posted by WMD:
Hmm...an NNT (new new technology ) system, with two subsystems running next to it...so, will DOS apps require 2Ghz to run then? :D
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or NNTDOS (Thhe new new technology disk operating system!)
:D
Does anyone have new information on the new build?
solarismka:
I think the artical has mentioned something very important. M$ knows that I.T. and coucumers are not upgrading their system so less money is comming in their way. By the use of product activation and Licenses they tried to squize what they could out of their customer base. However that drove the I.T department and even some consumers to look for alternatives or stay where they are!
Longhorn, as I see it, is a change on how a machine is sold. The whole point of Longhorn is that instead of you owning the OS and the software in it. Its rented to you by M$ and their partners. That way M$ can have a stady growth of income. More or less. Longhorn is a web application dependent on the M$ .Net infrustructure and M$ itself.
Of course this is a bad idea for consumers since they no longer own their machines but have to conted with a flat rate and a sign up fee. To M$ renting software not selling it is the future of business.
Nate:
quote:Originally posted by M51DPS:
Even if microsoft does decide to invent a whole new system (again), it would probably just add to the overall bloat.
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If MS were to create a whole new system, it would do completely the opposite. Their current line of operating systems carry on inefficient parts of past OSs, creating clutter, incompatibility, and the need for nasty SPs. If they started a new system, although hardware drivers and type may no longer be compatible, it would bring it back up to a more-decent level of operation compaired to the performance it needs to function at all.
Orethrius:
Precisely; in my opinion, the best thing Microsoft could do right now - short of making their OS open-source - is to raze the system down to the components of 3.xx, then restart from there. Everything went downhill after that point.
WMD:
quote:raze the system down to the components of 3.xx, then restart from there.
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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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