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I feel/belive that in some way Bill Gates has some regrets >:) … let him have them .
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20-Nov-2010 11:57 #1
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Windows and the third-party products that have been written to run in windows, amazing advances, a wonder really.
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Wow - 9 years before I was born -
Actually come to think of it SuSE existed before I was born by a few months (first version of SuSE came out in March 1994 and I was born June 1994)
Anyway, congrats to Microsoft for this milestone
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My fave product from MS was DOS... version 6.22 never been a big Windows fan :/ (Win7 is decent enough I guess)
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Happy Birthday Microsoft. Wish I'd bought lots of your stock back then.
IMHO:
Windows 1.0 - 2.x sucked, OS/2 was much better.
Windows 3.0 took much from OS/2 but ran on top of DOS where OS/2 was independent of DOS.
Windows 3.11 (or Windows for Workgroups) was good. I think this is the one that killed off OS/2.
Windows 98 was good.
Windows 98SE was very good.
Windows ME sucked.
Windows NT sucked big time.
Windows 2000 was good.
Windows XP SP1-SP3 was/is very good.
Windows MCE sucked big time.
Windows Vista not good.
Windows 7 is better than Vista but slightly less than Windows XP SP3. It still feels like it's running on top of DOS with a lot more hidden bells and whistles, like programs still use svchost.exe to run services, there's not a clear method to link folders and files or move hidden linked folders (called libraries in Windows 7), maybe I'm too use to Linux but it seems difficult trace error reports.
Don't know much about the server editions.Good return service to linux (openSUSE).
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Wow - 9 years before I was born -
Actually come to think of it SuSE existed before I was born by a few months (first version of SuSE came out in March 1994 and I was born June 1994)
Anyway, congrats to Microsoft for this milestone
Thanks, Andrew
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My fave product from MS was DOS... version 6.22 never been a big Windows fan :/ (Win7 is decent enough I guess)
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Happy Birthday Microsoft. Wish I'd bought lots of your stock back then.
IMHO:
Windows 1.0 - 2.x sucked, OS/2 was much better.
Windows 3.0 took much from OS/2 but ran on top of DOS where OS/2 was independent of DOS.
Windows 3.11 (or Windows for Workgroups) was good. I think this is the one that killed off OS/2.
Windows 98 was good.
Windows 98SE was very good.
Windows ME sucked.
Windows NT sucked big time.
Windows 2000 was good.
Windows XP SP1-SP3 was/is very good.
Windows MCE sucked big time.
Windows Vista not good.
Windows 7 is better than Vista but slightly less than Windows XP SP3. It still feels like it's running on top of DOS with a lot more hidden bells and whistles, like programs still use svchost.exe to run services, there's not a clear method to link folders and files or move hidden linked folders (called libraries in Windows 7), maybe I'm too use to Linux but it seems difficult trace error reports.
Don't know much about the server editions.OK… what are the two posts above this one all about?!
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> OK… what are the two posts above this one all about?!
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who cares? nothing to do with openSUSE, and it’s in ‘general-chit-chat’,
just forget it.
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