Re: tame running? -- Solution to "jerky cursor" problem!

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from "J. R. Fox"  on Wed, 01 Oct 2003
15:56:43 -0800


> One always has to ask -- no NEW bugs, problems, stability issues introduced with
> the latest one ? (Computer consultants will tell you it's usually not the best idea to
> be one of the first people using one of these, unless it's in a spare, experimental boot
> partition.)

Excess of caution, IMO (OS/2 habits don't apply). 3.5 months is long enough.
Several days is enough with this M$ stuff, given the number of downloaders.
Besides, what choice do you have? The real situation is that the M$ operating
system code is completely out of control. It is so bloated, and has so many
disparate contributions from different areas of the company, that nobody
(literally) has an overall understanding of it anymore. Its taken M$ ten or
twelve generations of code, starting with v3.0, to get the thing under control
and debugged. Finally, with W2K (v5.0) and WXP (v5.1), it pretty much works
correctly. Each new OpSys and Service Pack is really just a bug fix plus new
functionality built on old code. The scary thing would be if they tried to
write a new OpSys from scratch. You'd have to wait ten years to get it to the
debugged state of W2K SP4!

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Robert Holmgren
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