Max Wanadoo
max.wanadoo at gmail.com
Fri Mar 20 18:18:52 CDT 2009
Oh, I definately agree with Stuart. The OS and bundled Apps have merged - hence the multi-million dollar lawsuits in Europe over MS's bundling of IE etc. The "presentation" layer also need to be disassociated. Be nice to be able to pick: a. bIos b. OS c. Transport/Communication layer d. Presentation layer (all the krap Aero etc) e. Data Support Layer f. Support Layer (IE) g. Applicaitions oh brain hurts so just , etc etc. Max On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>wrote: > Drew, > > I agree with everything you say except this. > > An Operating System is the software layer between the hardware and > applications. > > I want an Operating System, pure and simple, not a combination of operating > system and > application suite. I want to decide what applications I need, not have > them bundled. > > If I want contact management, calendaring, mail, web browsing, media player > etc, etc, I will > install the programs that I want to use for these applications - they are > NOT operating > system functions and I object to paying for Mircosoft's versions of these > applications when I > buy their operating system. How much cheaper would a WIndows Licence be if > it wasn't > bundled with all these other applications? > > > -- > Stuart > > > On 20 Mar 2009 at 14:48, Drew Wutka wrote: > > > didn't do a lot on top of being a Windows OS. Vista, gets much closer > > to what an OS should do. It should push your machine to the max with > > every feature that can be crammed in. > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >