September 25, 2006
a little dose of hindsight and some thoughts on who is the bad guy
Here's an article that looks back on the real successes and shortcomings of Windows XP - not the sales figures or numbers of copies installed. If Only We Knew Then What We Know Now About Windows XP
This article actually suprised me, by shedding light on who is actually to blame for some of the annoying things about XP. I am guilty of mumbling prophanities under my breath when I have just installed new software on my computer and return to my desktop to find 10 new shortcuts placed there presumably "for my convenience". I tend to direct my mumblings towards the creators of XP, but I now know that I should save these insults for others - XP was originally intended to clean up the look of Windows
The very interesting parting thought from the author,
What's the ugly flaw in Windows Vista that people will be screaming about in 2010, but is escaping people's attention right now?"
sums up the gist of the article quite nicely - the flaws we now regularly complain about in XP weren't even on the horizon when it was being developed (who had heard of security threats??). So how can we think that the developers of Vista are any more competent at foreseeing the future?anyways, it's an interesting read...
Posted by lara at September 25, 2006 10:39 AM
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