Window (every version) like a house of cards

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Tonight I will start anew again

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....And windows Vista will have it's problems too

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Esselbach do you ever sleep or simply go to autopilot  ;D. My father was a computer engineer/programmer RIP many years ago and unfortunatly I did not inheret his programming genes . Who in the business world today isn't a slave to the Office suite (got to admit I do like it) . I had a little unix programming in college but I was never brave enough to switch. Of couse all my software is meant to run in Windows. Esselback FYI your little bye-line on Win98 was a factor in my little tyraid  ;D!

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[chomp_rock]

....And windows Vista will have it's problems too

I borrowed a friend's laptop with a beta version of Vista on it  (because, he says, I mess with things and I can find out a lot more than he can about it) and can confirm that, big time!

Being just beta it's still really buggy but the interface is streamlined quite a bit and the graphics are very nice.  It looks much different, many things are quite Mac-like in appearance.

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Microsoft and Sir Gates should have been run out of the country and THEN shot for inflicting  Windows 3.X - XP on the civilized world. We all got to pretty much pay for the joy of debugging it for him (imagine the lost hours spent trying to get Windows 95 to do anything other than boot reliably (if even that)).

I've heard that 98, 98SE and ME had thousands of lines of dead code in them. Problem stuff they pretty much "thought" they'd worked around, but they were still afraid to remove it..

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[quote]Esselbach do you ever sleep or simply go to autopilot

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[quote]Esselbach do you ever sleep or simply go to autopilot

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Please, don't get me wrong, it was a compliment to your dedication to the forum!

I've got 14 - enough said.

lol. Well, I have been a member of the forums for almost 6 years now

This has been most my social life ever since

Don't worry about your post count. Soon you will find yourself spending more and more time here. Before you know it, you will be a resident, and be posting thousands of messages

but I wouldn't limit myself to Win98 they are all crappy!

I guess I could change it to Windows XP, or simply MS Windows

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Being just beta it's still really buggy but the interface is streamlined quite a bit and the graphics are very nice.  It looks much different, many things are quite Mac-like in appearance.

There is a saying "You can't make chicken salad from chicken "! Windows since 95 has looked nice but got more patches than the original Stars & Stripes :-/. What is Apple and those Unix/Linux fellas doing that the Microsoft Empire can't. Both of the former have been around for a while but I never hear those using other operating systems cursing about the stuff that Windows users have come to expect . I've got 4 different brands of anti-everything software in an attempt to keep the internet Demons at bay. How many Windows users out there have had there system crash in the last 3 years . Who am I kidding in two year or less I'm sure , l'll be stuck in some Vista, trying stay on the ball field, waiting for a critical update to save my day .
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[Brett_Henderson]

Wonder when this thread'll get moved

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Even the relatively stable XP is insanely huge and complex.

It was all done a##-backwards. An O/S should be small and efficient...

Brett I think you hit the problem on the nose! Windows has grown so big it has more back doors than Windsor Castle . Windows shear size is what makes it so vunerable :-/. I think of 'Critical Windows Updates' as a little guy running around a really big building with pieces of wood, hammer and nails trying to keep thieves out from behind almost every door (hey - a new video game concept ). The KISS method (Keep It Simple Stupid) is a lost art at Microsoft.

My texture display problem was a ATI video driver issue. Why do I feel the blame has to do as much Windows licencing and the Windows platform.

Note ATI video board users - have you updated lately .
The latest driver was released on Jan. 16, 2006. The previous driver was from Dec. 23, 2005 and this did not help my texture display problem. The latest driver from Jan. 16 fixed it.

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[packercolinl]

Anything designed(programmed)by human beings will fail.

I had a manager who insisted that if it was designed by a humanbeing it could be fixed by one of his workers

Col.

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Saw the movie Failsafe with Henry Fonda last weekend. Bet Central Command was using Windows 1.0 at the time