@BrandonLee

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BrandonLee wrote: @ChrisH To add to that, the Linux threat makes it even more risky for MS to make such an aggressive move.

is linux really a big threat? there has been plenty of development time and its not even near being as user friendly as win/osx.

and it will never compete unless it is.

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@eniacfoa

Maybe not a BIG threat, but a threat nonetheless, especially if Windows tries to go a different way with their OS (ie bypassing backwards compatibility).
I don't think they will do it, though. It's "easier" to keep adding stuff, bulking up the OS and taking advantage of faster hardware to cover it up.

Microsoft has too big a share of the market to worry about really improving its OS, not just in terms of features, but particularly in terms of streamlining it, making it lighter.

I'm not a Windows user, so my opinions will most probably be far from reality, but that is my view on the MS OSes I've came across over the years.

@tomazkid

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This was 10 years ago, I used an A1200 with a Blizzard 68030/50mhz 8mb of ram and a 120 mb harddrive, compared AOS 3.0 with Windows 95 on the pc's with Pentium cpu's. Is this still a valid point today, 10 years later? Most of todays programs on the pc-side would not even fit on that 120 mb harddrive.

In 1995 I wrote a rather infamous article. Lightwave 4.0 had been announced and shipped in May for windows, I sold one of my Amiga 4000 toaster systems for $4000 and bought a P100 with 32MB of memory and a 17 " moniter and paid almost $800 for lightwave for the PC. It was almost an even swap, and though I hated losing one of my amigas, it was probably the best computer deal I ever did. Lightwave ran 10X faster on the P100 then on my 25Mhz 68040 A4000, and that gorgeous 17 monitor was so much better then the 1950. At that point, writing the article about Lightwave running on Windows, I realized that how fast I could format a floppy and how much better Amiga multitasked wasnt going to win. Because something that the computer spent days doing was 10X faster on the windows system (and was over 11X faster on the 120Mhz that just came out), my current laptop runs that benchmark over 2000x faster then the 68040 Amiga while I'm surfing the internet wireless, its hard to say the Amiga does it better when the amiga does it that much slower.
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@eniacfoa

Linux is a big enough threat that Microsoft has been spreading FUD about it for years. Latley they've even put their managers to work writing "security blogs" that are supposed to reveal how much more dangerous it is to run Linux than Microsoft. These things work in the real world of IT morons^H^H^H^H^H^H^H er, managers.

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@eniacfoa Quote:

is linux really a big threat? there has been plenty of development time and its not even near being as user friendly as win/osx.

I'm not so sure that is true any more - Ubuntu makes Linux pretty friendly IMHO, and actually easier in some ways. Sure some of the prefs programs are lacking, but most users never even look at that (unlike us), and those will surely be fixed eventually - especially if they copy Mandriva's good prefs programs.

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