MS Monopoly

[scorp]

tinman0 said:

scorp said:

I guess windows likes reading files, for no good reason, all the time. I can hear my laptop hdd quietly grinding away every other second even when i'm sat around not doing anything.. god only knows what it's doing.

I would say filesystem design takes some effort, you would need atleast some guys working on that stuff for a few years. Some of the filesystems used in linux are the product of tens of man-years of development. Shouldn't be prob for a big company like Microsoft though.

Sounds like a lack of memory on your machine if it swapping.

There are plenty of filesystems that Microsoft could bolt into Windows if they wanted, but not sure why they would. Also, if they are allowed to seal themselves away as a monopoly, why would they need to make Windows better? They have you all by the balls, many of you want to be had by the balls, so why should MS spend time and money making a better product for you to use?

My laptop has 3gb of ram, its about 5 months old.

[TeamD]

Hmmm, well, what about this then?

Bundling anyone?

[Mr Whippy]

TeamD said:

Hmmm, well, what about this then?

Bundling anyone?

Gah, they go on about the web as if it is the core point of a computer/os combo these days.

Fine, for plenty it is, but for plenty it is irrelevant as a core feature to go after the OS for.

Internet function on my M$ is perfectly fine for what I use. Not really an internet shopper/socialite.

Dave

[Alfa_75_Steve]

cottonfoo said:

Alfa_75_Steve said:

The fact that MS Windows was only available on a very clunky and bodged Intel 80x86 platform has held back computing for years.

NT was available for Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC as well as a few others.

Way back in 1996-ish. Around the time of the standard home PC being some kind of Pentium MMX.

Windows hasn't really moved on a lot since then.... my preferred variant for any kind of serious use is still Win 2k Pro.

[UncappedTag]

I'm still using XP, uninstalled Vista from my laptop, too slow. Hearing good things about Win 7, so we shall see

[gamefreaks]

scorp said:

tinman0 said:

scorp said:

I guess windows likes reading files, for no good reason, all the time. I can hear my laptop hdd quietly grinding away every other second even when i'm sat around not doing anything.. god only knows what it's doing.

I would say filesystem design takes some effort, you would need atleast some guys working on that stuff for a few years. Some of the filesystems used in linux are the product of tens of man-years of development. Shouldn't be prob for a big company like Microsoft though.

Sounds like a lack of memory on your machine if it swapping.

There are plenty of filesystems that Microsoft could bolt into Windows if they wanted, but not sure why they would. Also, if they are allowed to seal themselves away as a monopoly, why would they need to make Windows better? They have you all by the balls, many of you want to be had by the balls, so why should MS spend time and money making a better product for you to use?

My laptop has 3gb of ram, its about 5 months old.

It is either defragging the filesystem. (Which runs when the system is idle-ish by default on Vista, or indexing the filsystem.)

Also, the main memory counter on Windows is very misleading. Pretty much meaningless actually.

Virtual Memory managment in a modern OS is very complex.