Yes. Windows is all legacy based, carrying baggage from the DOS days. They need to do what Apple did with the PowerPC to Intel? Not sure if thats similar to Windows bring re written as a 2014 OS rather than the 2014 version of the 1980's OS. Problem is making a user able to migrate.They can make it look the same as Windows 8/10, but software vendors would need to rewrite and allow current users free or almost free access to the new version. Don't see this happening anytime soon.
From: "Jim Saklad jimdoc@icloud.com [iPad]" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
To: iPad@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, 13 November 2014 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: [iPad] OT: the windows operating system
David Smith wrote:
> I started with an IBM 360 in 1969, moved to an Apple II in 1980, and a year or so later moved to CPM (?) and Windows at work. Then I spent fifteen years with UNIX before retiring. I'm used to Windows and find it easy to use, but I dislike its kitchen-sink, patched-together feel. Every second Tuesday there are major security fixes. That does not incline one to an attitude that the adults are in charge at Microsoft. I have the sense that OSX is a much more adult operating system.
I was fortunate to move directly from TRS-80 Model III and Model 4P to a Unix-based OS with easy access to both GUI *and* command line, that could pre-emptively multitask in 512 kB of RAM with 1 floppy (AmigaDOS, 1986).
I never owned a DOS- or Windows-based computer, and never had to use one to attempt anything productive.
I started using the MacOS in connection with a hardware and software emulator that ran on my Amiga, and only actually bought a Mac in 1998, long after Commodore had screwed themselves into bankruptcy.
So I took the Mac fork.
My wife kept repairing her Amiga and using that until finally taking the Linux fork.
MacOS 9.0 was released in 1999; 9.1 and 9.2 in 2001.
The MacOS X Public Beta came out in September 2000.
Apple made a nearly-complete break to put there money on a Unix-based OS; Windows never really did that.
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Jim Saklad mailto:jimdoc@icloud.com
> I started with an IBM 360 in 1969, moved to an Apple II in 1980, and a year or so later moved to CPM (?) and Windows at work. Then I spent fifteen years with UNIX before retiring. I'm used to Windows and find it easy to use, but I dislike its kitchen-sink, patched-together feel. Every second Tuesday there are major security fixes. That does not incline one to an attitude that the adults are in charge at Microsoft. I have the sense that OSX is a much more adult operating system.
I was fortunate to move directly from TRS-80 Model III and Model 4P to a Unix-based OS with easy access to both GUI *and* command line, that could pre-emptively multitask in 512 kB of RAM with 1 floppy (AmigaDOS, 1986).
I never owned a DOS- or Windows-based computer, and never had to use one to attempt anything productive.
I started using the MacOS in connection with a hardware and software emulator that ran on my Amiga, and only actually bought a Mac in 1998, long after Commodore had screwed themselves into bankruptcy.
So I took the Mac fork.
My wife kept repairing her Amiga and using that until finally taking the Linux fork.
MacOS 9.0 was released in 1999; 9.1 and 9.2 in 2001.
The MacOS X Public Beta came out in September 2000.
Apple made a nearly-complete break to put there money on a Unix-based OS; Windows never really did that.
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Jim Saklad mailto:jimdoc@icloud.com
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