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Microsoft Windows 7 Exclusive Rebuttal

April 4, 2008

I came across this article today:

http://thebetaguy.com/exclusives/?postid=1029344029...

This guy doesn't understand, when he says:

Competitors complained that offering internet and media solutions with
the operating system harmed competition in the marketplace (despite
other operating systems such as Mac OS X and Linux apparently being
immune from such criticism).

The thing is, I can uninstall (delete) Safari from my Mac and nothing (else) will break. And Linux doesn't come with its own browser like he seems to think, the Linux kernel developers don't make browsers, browser developers do.. 2 or 3 browsers are usually included in a given Linux distro, and then there are a bunch more available:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers_for_Unix/Linux

none of which have any attachment into kernel memory space like IE was in versions 4-6, and 7?

Then later he says:

On traditional hard drives, the more separate files which the operating
system has to load, the more seeking across the hard drive is required,
and therefore overall performance takes a hit

Firefox has to load similar libraries and yet it runs really well. Weird how that works, and it's not even their OS they are running on.

Another misunderstanding:

On the average system, this directory can be several gigabytes in size,
with much of the code duplicated between the separate versions many times.

That's an old problem solved long ago in the *nix world by the use of shared object/library files. Maybe their compiler doesn't have -fPIC, I don't know.

I suspect one of the main reasons Vista gets bad performance is because it has to run "Microsoft Virus" software, and other spyware prevention utilities. The truth is I have no experience with Vista except helping a couple of relatives get rid of it, so I could be wrong.

In general this guy seems fairly uninformed.

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linux, microsoft, windows

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