On Jan 5, 2008, at 3:54 PM, Herbert Graf wrote:

> Feature wise, XP is 6 years old, it's missing most of the features  
> real modern OSs have, and I'm not talking about the eye candy of  
> Vista.

I didn't really want to extend what is probably a religious debate,  
but what ARE you talking about?  What important features have been  
added to "modern OSes" in the last six years?  And are they in Vista,  
or is this just a linux vs windows rant?  I mean, you've got 64bit,  
multiple cpus, and more than 4G of physical memory, but what else is  
there (and which of those aren't in XP?)  There's a slew of features  
not in XP that one might complain about, but most of them aren't  
NEW.  I don't know that I've seen much in a new OS other than eye  
candy in quite a long time (and indeed one of my complaints against  
linux these days is that "they" have spent too much time trying to  
duplicate the level of candy-ness in windows (or MacOS) rather than  
maintaining any of the traditional unix "lean-ness."  (sigh.)

BillW


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