Microsoft Will Die!

17 Jun 2015

I just checked out the MS Windows 10 Developer preview. It was a disaster. I know it's still not ready, but it still has the horrible "Live Tiles". I didn't like it. (I know that it still isn't finished.)

Windows 95, XP, and 7 were microsoft's HUGE hits. If they can't make another hit like that, I think one of these might happen:

IBM will come out of it's hiding place and continue OS/2.

BeOS Will comeback

We will all go to apple.

We will all go to Linux.

If Microsoft Dies, I going to Linux Mint

I've used windows all my life, and I loved it, (I have about 6 commuters all running different versions of windows, and one computer running 3 version of Linux.)

I really hope MS doesn't die

I have a strong feeling ms will die. And this is what killed it:

Please let me know your thoughts in the comments.

(If MS dies I will never sleep again! Yes, I'm a Microsoft FanBoy)

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Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to johnbeetem

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John Beetem,

Mc68k is still attractive to produce embedded with it
50mW during normal operation.
1.7mW during standby !
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MC68000&fpsp=1&tab=prodFeatures&site_preference=normal

One of its best instructions is TAS (Test-And-Set)within 1 clock cycle. One of the best semaphore mechanism's could be implemented with it for multitasking and parallel processing in the 80ies of the previous century
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johnbeetem over 10 years ago in reply to nick123

Nick Gallagher wrote:

I like ubuntu, but I'd rather run Windows than anything. Do you have any opinions on MacOS?

I liked MacOS System 6 a lot, and did a lot of programming using it. System 7 made everything far more complex, and thus practically impossible for one person to know everything. IMO System 7 required teams with the inevitable infighting, so Mac programming stopped being fun like it was with System 6.

I've always been a big 68K fan -- it's a nice instruction set. I really don't see the point of x86-based Macintoshes. I never could afford a PowerPC Mac, and that's moot anyway.
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Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to nick123

Hello nick123 ,
Wasn't Classic Shell invented for your Tile problem?
That is what I use for a few years now on Virtual win 8/8.1 (and now 10 too) test boxes on Linux and Mac hosts ;)
http://www.classicshell.net
Backwards compatibity of applications has always been great :)
cheers,
Fred
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nick123 over 10 years ago in reply to johnbeetem

I like ubuntu, but I'd rather run Windows than anything. Do you have any opinions on MacOS?
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johnbeetem over 10 years ago in reply to nick123

Nick Gallagher wrote:

Not MS Bob!

BTW, What OS do you run?

Mostly Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I try to use what my XXICC and Flavia users will most likely be using so that I detect problems before they do. I run Ubuntu 14.04 on my ODROID-C1. I like 12.04 better. I occasionally run Raspbian on RasPi and Debian on BeagleBone, but that's mostly to see if XXICC and Flavia still work on them. Ditto for Windows 2000 and Windows 7: I fire them up at each release to make sure things still work.
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