Well they never once replied to me when I contacted them. There are vast pages on the problems with say, google photos. Thousands of posts on the what's app bug, thousands of posts on the latest downgrade and removal of chrome cast, and not one single reply from google. How do you explain that ?

Oh yeah, name one alternative algorithm.

Google are far too aloof to be relied on. You can't contact them, they gnore your problems and do whatever they want regardless. I don't trust them any more after their recent impositions .

I have worked in process control and high energy physics for the last 30 years. When the PAW (physics analysis workstations) were converted from Fortran to C++ it was a total disaster, a bloated piece of crapware emerged that took more resources, ran at half speed if it didnt crash with a memory leak first. I have stood on the bank of the river and watched the corpses floating by, the latest fads in languages back then, remember Pascal, Modula, Algol68 .... During that time Linux hackers were perfectly happy to write their C code with vi and make, perhaps with cscope and get reliable binaries that are maintanable. The point about C is its a SIL (Systems Implementation Language), no one in their right mind would think about writing a kernel in C++, its an abomination. For those of us who need OO then C# and Java are great, look at Android. The old languages that have survived the test of time have done so because they work for the niche they were intended for. C is brilliant at describing and using hardware interfaces and writing beautiful fast kernel code, and yes macros are great "ContainerOf" and "WaitEvent" are two that come to mind. So cheers to C, Fortran (making a strong comeback), Lisp and Python. May C++ rot in hell as soon as possible with the rest of the crap, if I want OO I will use Java.

Problem is that the good hardware top range netbooks are not available without MS-crap on them. I am sure the only reason MS is popular is because there is no/(very litttle) choice in your average computer shop. The only good thing about windows I guess is that it stinks so much it keeps the flies off the rest of us. However I don't enjoy paying that price just because I want a netbooks with 9Hrs battery life etc.

Speaking as a consumer of netbooks, I am fed up paying the Microsoft tax, having them puke windows Vista all over my hard drive and vandalizing it with nasty plastic stickers on it. I format the drive, pull off the stickers and install Ubuntu. I hope Google wins and wipes MS out. Hardly fair when you cant choose not to have windows and are forced to pay for something you dont want.

You are confusing the word "computer" with the garbage spewed out by Microsoft. I will admit that no one understands XP, and that there is very little science behind it. I do understand computers, just not what passes for an operating system from Bill's lot.