I hated him too in my youth.

Now since I am older I see things differently. You can think Intel for the crappy intel 8086 instruction sets and lack of things like VM support, multitasking, and protected memory, which forced MS to make crappy operating systems and compatible with that crappy system mixed with techno luddities who were forced to switch to computers and didn't know better created the mess of the past.

If the original IBM pc was a motorolla 68000 things would be different.

Keep in mind superior operating systems like VMS, MVS, and Unix required exotic cpu architectures that were expensive too. MS eventually caught around but business users who do not mind crappy insecure software (Look at IE 6) really held things back and forced MS to keep NT out of mainstream for a full decade.

Things finally are caught up but still has tons of buggage. Gates did the whole pay him whether the OS is his or not which started this mess and prevented OS/2.

Well when your account has no money and your boss has to let you go due to no line of credit available to the finance department to pay your monthly salary I think your mind will change.

Outside of Slashdot there is no hatred towards Bill Gates or Microsoft. Hate how you took your unix market away in the 90's all you want, but he knows how to compete and make money and yes Bill Gates may not be a brilliant software engineer but he knows his stuff in terms of business.

Bill Gates likes bitcoin and even Apple's NFC payments because in 3rd world countries getting payments and transactions are unreachable with transactions costs compared to countries like the US. Explain how BOA would want to do business with someone who only makes $15 a day when they require a $300 savings account etc.

Bitcoin goes around the banks that is oppressing 3rd world nations

Right and they are rich and you are not. Your point?

It is a product where people use them every other day. Money maker cash king.

No but it sure as hell gave him a ton of money and hundreds of billions over the past few decades for MS to invest in new products.

Richest companies are ones where people need you and keep coming back over and over again such as Gillette, Chevron, McDonalds, etc. MS of today might be different as businesses and working professionals still need MS office and Windows to get the job done but not like in the past during the reign of Gates where it kept going obsolete over and over and he got a cut for each upgrade for Office and the OS.

Decay is caused by poorly written apps writing to the registry each time run. Windows treats it like a database with copies and forks and you have a recipe for disaster.

UAC controls and warnings if an app didn't install right fixes this

Of course I could argue what kind of modern browser doesn't do ajax or webapps? Turning it off is like turning html off.

I use adblock and with malware blocking in addition to flashblock. Noscript reminded me of UAC in Vista when all the apps were XP compatible and required to constant beep for any task before developers started switching to services instead.

It looks soo old and dated with shadows and 3rd effects like lines and colors and text smaller than 72 pixels.

I want my flat non color all white interface. I want to go to the coffee hipster stop with my tablet with just shades of gray or pastel colors with no lines separatin elements. My art professors and chicken will drool at this as this is the ultimate consumption is for servers

It doesn't just work. It's outdated and not designed to handle complex needs of a server or workstation.

Event driven is the way to go which is Apples launchd is. What of your mac goes to sleep on one network and wakes up in another? Init can't handle this without complex scripts. Let's say your ngix needs a way to respond to bot net attacks? With an event driven system like Suns replacement you can take care of this.

So systemd was not a great implementation? It took 3 tries for Linux to get it's USB drivers and file system right too.

DonT live in the past. Use launched or fix systemD

Scripts are event driven? Wow had no clue

Then have both.

Unlike 16 bit to 32 bit it most simply is a recompile about 90% of the time unless you have assembly or something specific. My guess is the ugly Netscape API for the plugins which Chrome used to support until last year and of course Firefox is built upon this.

Newer atoms anyway are 64 bit. In the old days this would have been obsoleted in 3 years. I would have laughed at you in 2004 if you told me most things are still 32 bit 10 years from now. XP is still freaking alive too in a few places. I am just surprised what happened?

But the web unlike MS Word 2003 can't keep staying old and these things are slowed down by supporting obsolete platforms both hardware and software. Smooth scroll still does not work right in chrome because XP is so ancient and they still have to support it.

As browsers become more and more app platform engines it is essential to use cpu instructions included after the Pentium IV in this day and age. It is 2014 and 10 years is enough. XP is the sole reason 32 bit is still around.

Yes if it aint broke don't fix it became a conservative motto here with the nerds who are approaching middle age now, but the web is still evolving and HTML 5 and HTML 5.1 will include WebGL, more AJAX, and other things where a not just additional memory addresses but also cpu instructions which no one still uses can be utilized.

When will IE and Firefox jump ship next?

You mean the same BBY that showed the gold plated monster hdmi look so much better than the display next to it?

They crippled it on purpose and what you saw was a downgraded or scaled image to make you blow $$$$. I could be wrong but don't trust Bestbuy

But all companies operate the same. Everything out there only works in old IE

Ha!

Good luck with that. Corporate apps and products coming out TODAY require IE 8 and MS specific hacks just to run. Because of this my employer will only buy software written to run on IE 8. Not W3C.

You better plan to support IE 8 until 2019 when you are ready to switch to HTML 5 or we will buy from a competitor who will. 80% of all other large companies operate the same way so good luck.

No way we will run classic shell or Windows 8. We just upgraded to Windows 7 for crying out loud! So expect jquery to be used for years to come. Many grandmas too will continue to use XP and IE 8 as well and expect the same support we received for the last half decade.