Comment Microsoft could do it better (Score 1) 32
Microsoft haven't done anything better than anyone else since they wrote Basic for the Altos back in 1975, since then, they haven't had to do anything better than anyone else. The money kept coming in and Microsoft kept shipping out software, and as long as those two factors stay in balance they never will have to. Microsoft are a business, their focus is on profits, and their reward is the size of their business. Where open source software does it better for real people is that the focus is on quality, and efficiency, because pride, and recognition is the reward.
Microsoft could possibly do it better, they have some very talented programmers working for them, but why would they bother when the cost to develop something like this is unlikely to ever be recovered. As a business, they need to justify using resources on a project. This is why Windows is still a slow, bloated, behemoth of an operating system, because there is no commercial impetus on improving efficiency. This is exactly why Microsoft's software sucks my big nana, and why you won't be booting NT off floppies in the near future.
Wordprocessor and GUI on a floppy? QNX maybe? :-)
Microsoft could possibly do it better, they have some very talented programmers working for them, but why would they bother when the cost to develop something like this is unlikely to ever be recovered. As a business, they need to justify using resources on a project. This is why Windows is still a slow, bloated, behemoth of an operating system, because there is no commercial impetus on improving efficiency. This is exactly why Microsoft's software sucks my big nana, and why you won't be booting NT off floppies in the near future.
Wordprocessor and GUI on a floppy? QNX maybe?
