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MikeB on 09 September 2008
vlad321 said:
Microsoft can do whatever the hell they want, including rebuilding the system completely anew and not just adding onto it. The thing is they probably won't so we will just have to wait and see. Also in 100 years when they decide to write a OS fromt he ground up, they should use something other than C languages. C is the main reason why Windows is so unstable and has security holes.

 

C languages IMO aren't the real problem, the most reliable and best performing OSes like BeOS, AmigaOS and QNX (great efficiency and unparrelled reliability) are mainly written in C (and C++) language(s). Performance critical parts, like parts of the kernel should of course be written in assembly for great performance.

The problems seem to be mainly regarding bad design and legacy bagage. MSDOS was probably the most horribly designed commercial (CP/M ripoff) operating system, Windows 3.x already was very inefficient (performance and memory footprint wise). It only got worse and worse, a business tactic seems to have been to make consumers upgrade and upgrade both their hardware and operating systems rather than optimising the operating system for previous configurations.



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MeowTheMouse on 09 September 2008

i remember when XP used to suck.
but Vista will always suck :P i didnt buy a laptop cause im waiting for the "new windows" to come out.. i hope it doesnt suck that i will be forced to "upgrade" to XP

@obieslut :
just give it time and every thing u will be using will be "linux" free wins every thing else,
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Play-Half-Life-2-on-Ubuntu-74731.shtml
its starting ;)



Pristine20 on 09 September 2008

Honestly halogamer, its hard to focus on the discussion at hand after opening the topic and seeing your sig and avatar. Shouldn't the politics stay in the off-topic discussion? You seem like a McCain campaign volunteer or something.

OT, Windows 7 will definitely be way better than vista because its hard to be worse than vista lol.



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Deneidez on 09 September 2008
MikeB said:

C languages IMO aren't the real problem, the most reliable and best performing OSes like BeOS, AmigaOS and QNX (great efficiency and unparrelled reliability) are mainly written in C (and C++) language(s). Performance critical parts, like parts of the kernel should of course be written in assembly for great performance.

Pointters, pointters, pointters... Garbage collection is much much safer and better to use. However it is much slower in most cases. :/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow

(Yeah, I know theres smartpointers and I use them. However theres still ppl who doesn't.)

@Thread

I wasn't keen to switch my windows 98 to XP too. However XP was nothing like vista back then. It had problems but not that big. I think you could compare vista with ME. ME was something you really had to skip.



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Soleron on 09 September 2008
Katilian said:
Impulsivity said:

While you're not going to agree, DirectX is one of the things MS has done right and well, and if they ever opensourced it (fat chance, but I can dream) I'd hope the open source community would embrace it.

WineD3D is pretty close on D3D9...

Yeah, though: DirectX and MS Paint are the only two useful, original and stable things MS has ever done.

PS3/PSP/Wii/DS use OpenGL and other stuff as a replacement for DX and seem to be getting along fine...

 



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Kasz216 on 09 September 2008
obieslut said:
i am not buying another stupid os that is not going to take advantage of my harware. i am not going to buy a new graphics just for that shit, well not for years and years anyway. i have already been shunned by microsoft with dx10, now they can shove all this shit up the ass.

if Linux had better games support i would switch over to that.

It's free.  How is it supposed to compare to that.

Someone as anti-MS as you should try it, dual boot and use the internet to help you out.  Give it a shot.

 



Kasz216 on 09 September 2008
Pristine20 said:
Honestly halogamer, its hard to focus on the discussion at hand after opening the topic and seeing your sig and avatar. Shouldn't the politics stay in the off-topic discussion? You seem like a McCain campaign volunteer or something.

OT, Windows 7 will definitely be way better than vista because its hard to be worse than vista lol.

He is.

 



halogamer1989 on 09 September 2008
Kasz216 said:
Pristine20 said:
Honestly halogamer, its hard to focus on the discussion at hand after opening the topic and seeing your sig and avatar. Shouldn't the politics stay in the off-topic discussion? You seem like a McCain campaign volunteer or something.

OT, Windows 7 will definitely be way better than vista because its hard to be worse than vista lol.

He is.

 

You think he would look at my profile himself, no?

 



Deneidez on 10 September 2008
obieslut said:
if Linux had better games support i would switch over to that.

By saying that it is like wishing that PS3 would have better support for X360 games.

(Anyway thats what most ppl whine about. However its not that simple. One just can't play windows games native in linux. They must be emulated somehow.)

So... I think you mean if developers would support linux better? :)



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Jo21 on 10 September 2008

IE 8 still slow.
so i am not having alot of hope for windows 7