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[pantherse]

This is why everyone should simply move away from Windows all together. It fathoms me why people want to pay hundreds of dollars on an operating system that's inherently unstable because it's become so bloated that it can't be fully tested anymore. Anyone who builds things can tell you that you can't always put patches or additions, eventually you have to demolish and rebuild from scratch. Microsoft should have hit the reset button on their OS after Winblows 98, but they didn't. This incident is only one of many disasters that have been caused by Microsoft's inability to accept reality that you can't always make things grow indefinitely. Even trees eventually stops growing taller, old branches fall off to make room for newer ones.

[katz45]

[quote name='pantherse']This is why everyone should simply move away from Windows all together. It fathoms me why people want to pay hundreds of dollars on an operating system that's inherently unstable because it's become so bloated that it can't be fully tested anymore. Anyone who builds things can tell you that you can't always put patches or additions, eventually you have to demolish and rebuild from scratch. Microsoft should have hit the reset button on their OS after Winblows 98, but they didn't. This incident is only one of many disasters that have been caused by Microsoft's inability to accept reality that you can't always make things grow indefinitely. Even trees eventually stops growing taller, old branches fall off to make room for newer ones.I can't help but wonder if this is the reason that people don't switch to linux, because of a backwards ass post like that. first of all a "fathom" is a unit of measuring the ocean equal to 6 feet. it can also mean to comprehend something. second of all Windows did hit the reset button after windows 98, Windows 2000 was a whole new operating system and XP is built off of 2000. so...when people are spouting nonsense like that it really makes it difficult to want to join their side.

[tbsteph1]

Skype suffered an outage due to a "bug" in their own software. To cite Windows Update as a cause is ludicrous. Next I expect them to blame global warming or ?.

[itproandteacher]

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pantherse said:

This is why everyone should simply move away from Windows all together. It fathoms me why people want to pay hundreds of dollars on an operating system that's inherently unstable because it's become so bloated that it can't be fully tested anymore. Anyone who builds things can tell you that you can't always put patches or additions, eventually you have to demolish and rebuild from scratch. Microsoft should have hit the reset button on their OS after Winblows 98, but they didn't. This incident is only one of many disasters that have been caused by Microsoft's inability to accept reality that you can't always make things grow indefinitely. Even trees eventually stops growing taller, old branches fall off to make room for newer ones.
I can't help but wonder if this is the reason that people don't switch to linux, because of a backwards ass post like that. first of all a "fathom" is a unit of measuring the ocean equal to 6 feet. it can also mean to comprehend something. second of all Windows did hit the reset button after windows 98, Windows 2000 was a whole new operating system and XP is built off of 2000. so...when people are spouting nonsense like that it really makes it difficult to want to join their side.

I agree with katz45 and tbsteph1 - people make ignorant assumptions all the time, and the uninformed are the worst abusers. Skype's excuse reminds me of the recent finger pointing of Firefox camp at Microsoft IE for the vulnerability when both browsers reside on a system. Pantherse's opinion is so prevalent on-line: blame Micro$oft for everything wrong with technology. I am far from thinking they are perfect or infallible, but thinking like this and screaming it to be heard is the on-line equivalent of those who speak up and speak slowly for the benefit of the non-English speaking - it does no good, only makes the one doing it look asinine and frustrates the target audience. Skype's to blame here, the updates didn't cripple any other major public app.