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Started by Yegg, October 14, 2005, 02:17 PM

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hismajesty

It turned out to serve many of the worlds inhabitants, businesses, and governments. It revolutionized the computing industry and constantly sets the bar for others to follow. It made everyday computing simple for the masses and thus made our race more productive, more efficient giving us more free time to do non-work things thus increasing the flow of cash into entertainment businesses such as movie theaters and golf courses. These places, of course, then sell more snacks/drinks, T-shirts, etc. increasing the supply for those items too. Which, of course, increases the supply for the ingredients.

Windows is good for the economy.

Hitmen

Quote from: hismajesty[yL] on October 15, 2005, 12:42 PM
It revolutionized the computing industry and constantly sets the bar for others to follow.
hahaha

Talora

I smell ripped source here.....(sarcasm)
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Quote from: hismajesty[yL] on October 15, 2005, 12:42 PMIt turned out to serve many of the worlds inhabitants, businesses, and governments. It revolutionized the computing industry and constantly sets the bar for others to follow. It made everyday computing simple for the masses and thus made our race more productive, more efficient giving us more free time to do non-work things thus increasing the flow of cash into entertainment businesses such as movie theaters and golf courses. These places, of course, then sell more snacks/drinks, T-shirts, etc. increasing the supply for those items too. Which, of course, increases the supply for the ingredients.

Windows is good for the economy.

It's definitely good for all those who make their living helping people work around its deficiencies.  As for innovations...  How about a real window manager, with full support for virtual/paned desktops, a configurable focus policy, customizable menus for all mouse clicks, definable window decorations, and user-defined keybindings?

These innovations aren't particularly new.  They're present in the more minor window managers as far back as 6 years ago.  The full scale DEs are even more featureful, as nslay loves to point out. ;)
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hismajesty

I wasn't referring to simply XP, Windows has been around for much longer than 6 years. The main reason I'm pro-Windows it for the ease of use. I consider myself to have an, at least, semi-advanced knowledge of computers and I can survive on Linux and such. However, many people can't, and I don't see much change of other operating systems to help them (granted, window managers like KDE ease the transisition, and some distros are built for beginners.) But, overall, Windows takes the cake. Stuff works, for the most part, when it needs to - with the occasional freeze or whatnot. Sure, that can be bothersome, but in exchange for how it has propelled International business it's a small price to pay.

Yegg

Quote from: Newby on October 14, 2005, 08:27 PM
Quote from: Spht on October 14, 2005, 06:00 PM
Quote from: Falcon[anti-yL] on October 14, 2005, 05:20 PM
Any features that makes it stand apart from the other OSes?

It lets you create filenames with up to 65535 characters, unlike Microsoft's limit of 255, which makes it superior.

Link?

Wouldn't that depend on the file system?

EDIT -- This is an alleged screenshot as well.

I didn't notice this before, but if you zoom in once or twice into that image (the one Newby posted), the top right corner is labeled as BeOS.

rabbit

Also, the fourth icon on the right at the top is "BeOS 5 System"
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