XP is already so "patched", it's like a psychotic's crazy-quilt. Patching patches, which are themselves "multiple-patched", does not make for a stable OS, IMHO... ;)
I would love to see MS write an OS that - and I may be crazy thinking this - operates the system. Just that. One that doesn't try to take control of every single aspect of PC operations. A 2 cd set: one with OS, hardware and networking, and one with all the Other Shite like IE, Outlook, Themes, screen savers, Explorer, Firewall, Backgrounds, media players and all the other little buggy things that are turned on by default that I spend so much time turning off but can't delete because they're system files.
I would like to find the lazy programmer who thought DLLs were a good idea, and kick his arse. And the other programmer who thought scattering software files across a dozen directories was a good idea because keeping a program in its own directory was too bloody hard.
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I would like to find the lazy programmer who thought DLLs were a good idea, and kick his arse. And the other programmer who thought scattering software files across a dozen directories was a good idea because keeping a program in its own directory was too bloody hard.