Comments on: Best and Worst Microsoft Products http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/12/24/best-and-worst-microsoft-products/ Living Digitally and Electronically Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:34:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Joe Whitehead http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/12/24/best-and-worst-microsoft-products/#comment-494655 Joe Whitehead Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:31:46 +0000 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/12/24/best-and-worst-microsoft-products/#comment-494655 My favorites: Windows Server 2003, and of course, the two-button mouse! There's also the Sidewinder Pro joystick series. A possible future favorite: The VPC and Unix subsystem support has the possibility of making Windows run Linux code natively, thus keeping Microsoft's market options open for the next big OS from Redmond. My most hated products: Windows Vista Win32/x32 (why bother? x64 and 4+GB RAM is reason to upgrade, though. heh), Windows ME. Note how both of these are thought to be getting people ready for the next family of Windows. Let's hope by 2010 that MS gets it's act together and makes a modular OS. Just plain strange: Windows update site when there's an Automatic Updates engine and the site doesn't like Mozilla anyways... It's weird that they didn't just combine AU with WU already and make the site strictly for collecting patches ala AutoPatch for slipstreaming. It has got to be a waste of effort and bandwidth all around. Another strange thing is that you sometimes need updates, to use Windows Updates! Catch 22 for a reinstalled OS without slipstreaming (say, off the original disk). My favorites: Windows Server 2003, and of course, the two-button mouse! There’s also the Sidewinder Pro joystick series. A possible future favorite: The VPC and Unix subsystem support has the possibility of making Windows run Linux code natively, thus keeping Microsoft’s market options open for the next big OS from Redmond.

My most hated products: Windows Vista Win32/x32 (why bother? x64 and 4+GB RAM is reason to upgrade, though. heh), Windows ME. Note how both of these are thought to be getting people ready for the next family of Windows. Let’s hope by 2010 that MS gets it’s act together and makes a modular OS.

Just plain strange: Windows update site when there’s an Automatic Updates engine and the site doesn’t like Mozilla anyways… It’s weird that they didn’t just combine AU with WU already and make the site strictly for collecting patches ala AutoPatch for slipstreaming. It has got to be a waste of effort and bandwidth all around.
Another strange thing is that you sometimes need updates, to use Windows Updates! Catch 22 for a reinstalled OS without slipstreaming (say, off the original disk).

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