Re: Windows registry recovery - going even more Off Topic

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Phil White wrote:
(Digressing further: This is really another story; if things had been
slightly different we might all be running GEM today or Digital Research
"CP/M86.2006" (or some such,) and Gary Kildall could well have been the
world's "Bill Gates.")
Indeed. I had a "poor man's Ventura" DTP app (forget
it's name) that ran under GEM, and it was much less
distracting to this viscerally non-visually oriented
word person than any other GUI.

Back to the original subject: The integration mentioned above essentially
makes every modern Windows application into just another "Head" on a modern
Hydra, the Windows operating system. This is decidedly NOT a bad thing
Perhaps not, IF ("much virtue in an if") it were well
organized and worked. But here's computer columnist
Danny Cecil on Vista, back in April in Processor mag:
I've come to the conclusion that Windows is
hopelessly broken. With every new release of Windows,
Microsoft has added more layers of complexity to try to
expand its monopoly into new areas and work around
fundamental design flaws and trade-offs that made its
previous OS insecure and unreliable. Windows has become
so complex that it simply isn't possible to make it
secure and reliable.
	Microsoft has the largest and most sophisticated
software development organization in the world, but
it's reached the point that even it can't manage it
anymore. Witness the recent slip of Vista into January
2007. Longhorn (Vista) was originally expected to ship
in 2003, but despite cutting back on the planned
functionality, it has been repeatedly delayed to the
point that even if Microsoft makes its newest date, it
will be the longest time ever between Windows OS
releases. How much more complex will the next release
of Windows have to be to work around the problems that
are sure to crop up in Vista? It's time to start over!≪
He then goes on to point out (as Flash did here a while
back) that one of the problems is that
it tries to be all things to all people. ...Whether
you are a limited home user who only wants to surf the
Web and read email or you work in corporate IT and need
to host a huge production database, Microsoft provides
you essentially the same OS. ≪

And he concludes:
We don't need one uber-OS that can perform any
computational task you can imagine; we need multiple
operating systems that are targeted at specific sets of
user needs.
And by the bye, wasn't Plug and Play supposed to do
away with the need for drivers?

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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx