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Originally Posted by Lefazz  If I could build a Mac like I can a PC I would probably be running OS/X. Granted, I know of the OS/x86 project but that always seemed like a hack job.
When is Microsoft going to do a brand spanking new OS written from scratch? Certainly there has to come a time when they'll need to start fresh instead of keep updating Windows. How far back does that shit go, anyway? Aren't there bits and pieces (like .DLLs and whatnot) that date back to the 90's? I'm sure that's one of the reasons the OS has become so bloated...not to mention the security flaws is due to the fact that Windows was originally a single-user OS. Once one has become familiar with a Unix OS you can tell how the multi-user aspect of Windows doesn't quite "feel" right.
Anyway, Apple did this with OS/X. Microsoft needs to do this too eventually. |
I've looked into putting OSX on a custom built PC. It only works on certain hardware and every driver you need you have to install manually (Or so it seemed). So you could be well along your way and come into a roadblock where your sound, video, networking, SATA etc drivers didn't work and it'd be wasted effort.
As to rewriting the OS from scratch, the only way this would happen is if an incredible new way of processing was invented and went main stream, and even then most of the code would be borrowed. Truth is, XP -> Vista is the biggest "rewrite" of Microsoft's OS that you'll see for a long time. It's very rarely that software is rewritten from the ground up when a company has a predecessor for the product.
Anyway, I got my headphones to work. I had it in the wrong input port. It's the right one for every other OS I've used, but on windows 7 it's not the 'green' port but some other one that works /shrug. I'm sure there's a reason for it.
I spent last night getting the speech recognition part training, and it has the same interface/system/girl with the really fuckable lips from Vista, but I don't know if it's any better. I'll put it to use lightning bolting people's asses tonight and see if it's at least better than XP.
Start up times seem comprable to XP, maybe more. Honestly though, I think most start up times have to do with registering hardware than loading software. My CPU runs at 4GHZ so start up times are fast on Vista, XP and 7.
Again, the only thing I don't like is the lack of configuration options for the look of everything. This is forgivable because it's a beta, but I hope in the release they'll let me turn off the combination of, "Look how futuristic I can look" and "I will not show you more than 5 options at once" they've got. Vista had this by default but I could set it back to "non-noob" mode pretty easily.
And Voyce, I'm going to go ahead and throw my hat in with the idea that you're over-reacting. Complaining that Windows comes with notepad and calc.exe but not Microsoft Office is like complaining that the house you bought doesn't come with the previous owner's cars. Just because a company makes two products you want doesn't mean they should throw them both together. Do you really think people want to pay for Office everytime they pay for windows?
Also, just steal it.
