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| james_s:
--- Quote from: DimitriP on March 21, 2020, 05:27:21 am --- --- Quote ---I just don't understand how such a basic and fundamental OS feature as file searching could be so badly bungled. It was perfected decades ago, why can't they get it right now? --- End quote --- Decades ago, the user had unfettered acces to any and all files. So did malware installers :) Now we have "users" like "Local Session ID" and "Trusted Installer". So you can't just go looking for files ...you gotta use the index ... --- End quote --- Well, the tool "Everything" works wonderfully so why can't that functionality be integrated into the OS? If it's part of the OS, it can be validated and trusted to have access to the files. It's so stupid how it will search the internet when all I want to do is find something on my local machine. If I wanted to search the internet I know how to open a browser and do that. Never once have I wanted to search the web or find an app in the store from the search box in the start menu. |
| DimitriP:
--- Quote ---It's so stupid how it will search the internet when all I want to do is find something on my local machine. --- End quote --- You are just stuck in the "old ways" of getting things done :) Always beware of smart boneheads with decision making authority. Every company has one, Microsoft being a very large company has many. |
| Marco:
--- Quote from: Electro Detective on March 20, 2020, 10:27:14 pm ---It's on them really, not the customer who was at one time 'always right' --- End quote --- Though I don't think they handled it well, they are kind of between a rock and a hard place. Google and Apple. Google can do everything cheaper, because they datamine their customers with no restraint. Apple's reality distortion field allows them to pull customers and devs along at a much higher pace and turn old OS versions into abandonware without anyone batting an eye. That combined with the stable hardware platforms makes them hard to compete against for Microsoft. Having a single Windows for almost everyone which just continually updates would make it a bit easier for them to compete. When all customers are always right, you get a really messy codebase. |
| SiliconWizard:
One thing I'm wondering - this is purely hypothetical - is: what if MS eventually open-sourced Windows, or at least the Windows kernel? Would that spark a real interest (beyond just for legacy reasons), would some people/companies actually choose Windows over say Linux (again if there was no legacy reason forcing them to choose Windows only)? |
| MadTux:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 21, 2020, 06:58:12 pm ---One thing I'm wondering - this is purely hypothetical - is: what if MS eventually open-sourced Windows, or at least the Windows kernel? Would that spark a real interest (beyond just for legacy reasons), would some people/companies actually choose Windows over say Linux (again if there was no legacy reason forcing them to choose Windows only)? --- End quote --- Probably no, but building Windows API integration into Linux would be much easier, since Wine is mostly done by reverse engineering. I guess cleaning Windows code mess back into a slick and fast operating system would take a while. The first thing that probably would happen is that it gets a new and more usable Window manager. |
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