From the New York Times:
Microsoft Windows has put on a lot of weight over the years.
Beginning as a thin veneer for older software code, it has become an obese monolith built on an ancient frame. Adding features, plugging security holes, fixing bugs, fixing the fixes that never worked properly, all while maintaining compatibility with older software and hardware — is there anything Windows doesn’t try to do?
Painfully visible are the inherent design deficiencies of a foundation that was never intended to support such weight. Windows seems to move an inch for every time that Mac OS X or Linux laps it.
The best solution to the multiple woes of Windows is starting over. Completely. Now.
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Microsoft has become MEGAsoft. Many years ago, when a small computer was the size of a office desk the head of my college computer department told us that small software was good software, small software was FAST software, small software was error free software. I wonder just how fast a small nimble error free ‘windows’ would be? But then these were the days of programs being measured in Kilobytes rather than Gigabytes.
Wayne