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# I understand what you are saying
and you know I play with all sorts of gear so I do have half a clue.
What I'm trying to say is that an inherant hatred for M$ has nothing to do with how well their products work.
I'm no fanboy but as a windows user since3.0 ( and even had a play with 1.0 ) Vista 32 is currently the most stable and efficient mass market OS to be found.
(, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 23:12, archived)
# It is true that a hatred for M$ doesn't make their products bad
I think that if microsoft abandoned some of their dodgy practices (ie buying the competition and whatever else the corporate side gets in trouble for) and focused on r&d (which it seems no one wants to do these days) they could make really good software.

I remember using windows 3.0 on top of MSDOS 5.0. I don't think I ever saw 1.0 but I might have on a demo machine. Strangly though I spent most of my time trying to program utilities in msqbasic so I can't say I used the gui very much.
(, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 23:33, archived)
# the trouble with most unix
OS' is that they don't look any better than windoes did 25 years ago ( when they stole their gui from Xerox )

(, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 23:51, archived)