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Originally posted by fred
Statica,
I understand your point of view. Don't you think the most amazing part is now we have NT users and 9X users sitting in the same room having a conversation? That never happened before!
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Its a double edged sword, Fred. As long as every sysadmin realizes that, and yet learns to sleep comfortable, its a good thing
On the one hand yes its great:
because, there no longer are 2 standards of operating things. Tools get universal, standards get universal.. a user no longer has to call up your ISP, and then have to be put on hold, because the 1st level tech guy has no idea why 'winipcfg' doesnt work on Win2K. Eventually there is going to get a trend of doing away with FAT32. Have grown hoarse over the years of trying to tell people that FAT is a much better standard than is FAT32. Was tired of telling people to use NTFS on Win2K. This was what M$ originally set out for when it diversified from the Win 3.xx issues. There was talk of merging the kernels down to one thread, but in all the money making schemes, it took this long to get it down. Of course, I have to laugh at people who ran out and bought ME (I am a lot more sympathetic to those who got it bundled
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I can also understand where it took them so long to come down to the NT way of looking at things. Having to get rid of legacy support, getting rid of DOS loaders and all of that. If this keeps up, the next version of Windows might actually be worth going out and buying. Cos it will have weeded out a lot of users who want to use dual boots and archaic filesystems, and complain about incompatible hardware and software.
On the downside, I liken the whole situation to being an ISP whose clients use Corel Linux. Its an ill-conceived plan at the core of it, its only pretty, and contains more holes in it than Bin laden's plans of longevity. Its basically a disaster waiting to happen for people who don't know anything about computers. The worst part of the situation, as it stands right now, M$ and others are not even aware of the flood of security flaws it will be vulnerable to. The one major flaw with UPnP was huge!
The other reason why I dont like the XP standard is because I don't like standards being shoved down my throat. & every step of the way, XP is establishing its own standards. I may be bullheaded enough not to care whether M$ formats are better, but I do care about flexibility. And to that end, I know I will shudder when the next OS to M$ comes out.