Richard Herb wrote:

> you know very well what Vista is dude, dont lie

OK. I'll bite:

"Vista" is a "skin" for the previous version of Windows ("XP"). Microsoft
were unable to actually write anything new, and had to resort to using much
of their previous code, adding some new pseudo-security nonsense and some
desktop eye-candy, and spending /most/ of their budget on advertising.

As all the competent programmers left MS years ago (the current bunch of
Microserfs believe that Visual Basic is a /programming/ language!), there
was nobody at Redmond capable of /really/ writing anything new. All their
proud boasts of a new filing system (WinFS) and proper security were just
noise and nonsense.

MS claim that it took six years to write "Vista" - this is pure advertising
rubbish. It was thrown together in just over seven months, based on the XP
codebase. They were desperate to get /something/ into the marketplace and
this was the best they could do.

/Most/ of the development time was spent adding the DRM silliness which
makes Windows useless for multimedia applications. Vista /still/ contains
the broken TCP/IP stack stolen from BSD (an operating system related to
Linux) back in the early 90s.

> thats right, I have dyslexia, command line is not for me

No. You have stupidity and a lack of desire to bother to learn anything.
Dyslexia exists, but is /very/ much less prevalent than claimed by
ineffective "educationalists" and lazy children.

> it also an old technology. I'm from the GUI generation

No. You're from a lazy, ill-educated generation that has nothing to offer
this world.

> COMMAND LINE IS FROM THE 1960'S!!!

If you actually knew anything about Windows, you'd find that to make /any/
attempt to make it secure, you /have/ to resort to the command line. There
are many parameters unavailable even to the Windows GUI.

> we will be using voice recognition, and then thought recognition,

I've been using voice recognition since the 1970s - it's nothing new.
Windows still can't do it, though. Thought recognition is a scary notion,
but you can bet that MS certainly /won't/ lead the way with that one!

The whole internet /is/ Unix. Linux is a little Unix. Windows is an
ineffective, insecure client for a Unix world. Why do you think /none/ of
the world's largest websites (apart from MS' own ones) use Windows?

If you're happy with Windows Vista, stay with it. You're an irrelevance,
and a dwindling minority. Windows is currently about seven years behind
the current level of Linux development, and falls further behind every
month.

C.