Reply to: 20 Years of windows

[wxman]

<does anyone remember the Gem desktop, before windows>

Yes.

It came with the Amstrad 1512...

And Xerox invented the graphics interface, Jobs just copied it...

Good point about Xerox - who also invented the mouse as well as Internet Protocol and SMTP email - I bet the Snr Managers at Xerox really listened to the devlopment guys in those days - just to think - we could have been ruled today by a photocopier company

[s2budd]

Windows

Windows. Yes, looks very nice but functionally cr*p. Just try to use an application or install something as a user other than the administrator or try networking without getting a TCP stack overflow or try downloading more that two things using MS IE at once.

Linux - Rubbish interface and about as user friendly as a tank but as stable and well build as Big Ben.

What we need is a genetic mutation.

[OwlHoot]

Windows Birthday next month
Damn hardly feels like 20 years now.
So when was first time you saw/used it? Windows 2 was my intro

I first used it in 1988, working for John Brown Engineering (now part of Kvaerner). I remember having to perpetually whip 5 1/2" diskettes in and out of the PC to compile and run a program.

[DirtyOldMan]

Totally off topic I know, but this is nice.....

[Toad]

Likewise regarding Linux. Been playing around with Suse 9.3 for a few weeks now and don't feel comfortable with it at all. Too slow on the desktop and the Open Office is just too cludgy. Don't have the patience to wait 10 seconds for a spreadsheet to open up. I Installed Windows Server 2003 on the same machine and it flew.
Might try Linux in another years time. Might not.

[Durbs]

Frankly Xp is the first version which actually works at all well enough.

Got to disagree with that, 2000 was, and still is, a very impressive and stable working platform. At my last job the developers could spec their own laptop including O.S and 2000 was often the O.S of choice even though it was a tenner more expensive than installing XP with the Dell laptops. Its a nice platform for just getting the job done without all the bells and whistles that you're never going to use on a work laptop.

2000 server too is a very nice easy system to work with.

Been trying to get into Linux recently as a few jobs have required it but try as i might (and believe me, i've tried to like it, i like the idea of it anyway) i just cant see the attraction, basically everytime i've finished a session on it theres an overwhelming feeling of 'this is tulip' that i just cant shake.

[TwoWolves]

I remember using Windows 1.0, I was the UNIX administrator at the time (System V on Olivetti). My jaw hit the floor at how crap it was. Just DOS with a graphics layer and about as stable as Granny on Gin.

But man! Were management air-heads in love.

Frankly Xp is the first version which actually works at all well enough.

[MarillionFan]

Im sorry I dont believe this Windows 20 years rubbish. I remember my house had windows when i was a kid and my mum's house did when she was a kid as well.

[Not So Wise]

Yes and about 0.4% of computer users in the world are sticking with Apple. Says it all really.

Apple "lost" not because of their OS was worse (it's better) but because of apples business model (tieing the OS to their hardware)

[steve'O]

Yes and about 0.4% of computer users in the world are sticking with Apple. Says it all really.

"Says it all" Mr Gates screwed em real good!

[DimPrawn]

Yes and about 0.4% of computer users in the world are sticking with Apple. Says it all really.

[n5gooner]

does anyone remember the Gem desktop, before windows.

[steve'O]

SORRY! Apple did the first Windows

[DimPrawn]

The latest and greatest...



http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx

[n5gooner]

first Windows, I think was 2.1 on 5.25" floppy disks, about 11 I think.......