Thoughts and Theories From Roger Andre
for the curious, and people getting to grips with computing and computers.
Tuesday 5 August 2008, 8:23 PM
Windows Silent Service
A lot of the reasons are well documented...but there has been a plus side working silently away over the years.
The fact of the matter (from where I'm looking) is that windows is a
fairly high maintainance operating system. The silent service that I
refer to in the title is the fact that dealing with windows quirks has
encouraged many people to look under the windows bonnet and get their hands dirty.
A whole economy has built up around this high maintainance OS,
especially on the domestic front, where I,ve come across machines with over 4 gigabites of junk files and 67,000 invalid entries, or errors in the registry alone!
This is how I got started with looking under the bonnet, a cranky
early issue vista machine that refused to get on with a big name anti
virus product, and had many essential services switched off.
Now because I have had to deal with so many quirks and problems, I
feel happy with the knowledge that I have accumulated, and feel
confident about stabilising the OS on other computers, so I thank you microsoft for throwing me in at the deep end....
PreviousComments on this post
We're both working on a commercial "jobs program". If Windows wasn't broken so much of the time, we wouldn't necessarily have jobs! Every time Microsoft comes out with a new-old OS and breaks what was working, all of us in the IT industry have to make it work again. So at best we're in a co-dependency relationship with Microsoft!
It's great that y'all have jobs because of a poorly written, and broken OS. But, one would think a company writing an OS for the public would listen to what the public wants, and not have something alien forced on them. All I can see is that Microsoft is doing everything for their bottom line and ignoring what the public really wants from an OS. They could try to be compatible with other OS's too, but I guess that is asking to much.
I do agree with you, and in fact I think it is very good news that IBM wishes to push windows free computers, with linux offerings.
