Fat said:
Ah, it's just another puff piece. Windows looks nice, and I do use it,
but IMO it's badly designed: the object model is inconsistently
implemented, it's not modular, and too many defaults are set to make it
easy to use instead of safe. Incremental improvement of the software
won't change the fundamental design flaws. Not that Windows is alone in
having flaws. All OSs I've ever used had serious design flaws. I used to
think a perfect OS was possible; now I'm not so sure. Older and wiser, I
guess.
It's a good sign that MS has decided to focus on security in Vista. That
IMO is the real reason the consumer version is delayed: Vista has to be
as idiot-proof as possible to prevent the few idiots who won't secure
their computers from compromising security for everybody else.
Just my late-night ramblings.
