Originally posted by thinger:
eh huh, but are you a developer for microsoft?
microsoft didnt rip it off well and were sued for copyright infringements over Lisa and the Mac GUI. considering that the BSOD has now become the RSOD in longhorn...yeah, i really dont thikn they're managing to pull off their rip off.
at any rate, since you're a developer, i trust you appreciate clean code?
windows longhorn has about 50million lines of code, and a lot of spaghetti code. mac osx has about 2.5 million. considering apples crash a lot less frequently than ibm/pcs with any version of windows, id say windows is a lovely big mess.
and at any rate, i dont care about the real world. i care about me.
you turn your laptop on. you put it to sleep. you wake it up, do work on it. put it to sleep. wake up. sleep. wake up sleep. it starts to slow down, it crashes. lovely.
ive had mine on for 3 months straight now.
I am not a developer for Microsoft, but rely on Microsoft, let's put it this way.
Oh, Lisa and Mac lawsuit. Why didn't you finish the whole case? You miss the part that Apple in fact got the initial idea of user interface from Xerox PARC. So, no winner in the lawsuit.
I have question and doubt over the Windows crash you mentioned. I don't seem to have the problem you have. May I know which Windows version you were referring to? I find Windows 2000 and Windows XP are very stable. So, I don't think Windows is a big mess.
Yes, I do care about myself too, and of course my pocket. That is the one of the reasons I develop on Windows.
Talking about originality, Mac OS X builds on Unix code also. Do you consider this as rip off too?
Usually I don't let my Windows go on for 3 months. I will do a power cycle every week. Not because it becomes slow, just I feel I owe the system a fresh start.
At any rate, I really think Mac OS is a great OS, though I never used it before. To me, Linux, Windows are in the same rank too. They are equally significant. Just Windows has more user base.