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And... XP isnt forced by the government. Do you read the onion as you're primary news source?

Windows in general is forced by monopoly. Microsoft goes against convention time and time again and it forced people to use their products because they have a stronghold on what people do with their computers.

XP has physical memory limitations when it comes to 32 bit, because -every- operating system has those limitations. In windows xp 64bit mode, its limit is 128 gigabytes, because this is a home user operating system. To add in even more support then that much (even that much) is a complete waste of coding. And only through exploits can you install anything as a Standard User account. Windows XP is a cooperate operating system, they differentiated between standard and admins hundreds of years ago. Do not come in here spewing bs without proving that you can do it without an exploit or an hack. It also is a purely 32 bit and 64 bit operating system. There are no 16bit calls, and the ideal that you would know what bit the kernal runs in is a joke. Its closed source, so unless you did the coding, I will not trust a word you say on that.

Windows XP source codes have been leeked for some time now, because some kit in a some college that had access to it was bored. Also, have you ever heard of reverse engineering? You can easily figure out how the world of windows words when you start reading some assm form of it. Windows 7 was a great leap forward because they fixed the fact that when you run 32 and 64-bit, you're actually running full 32 or 64-bit. (Also their source code has comments about "moron" and "hack" a lot)

More bs. In windows vista/7. You have to be an Admin period to do anything other then run programs. All windows functions are locked out as well. In Windows xp, you could do more, but you still had to be an admin period to install a program. So unless you had an exploit to run on the system, you couldn't do anything.

Windows security model is a joke... You click a button and BAM instant virus, no admin approval required. It is not hard to make viri for windows, especially for websites because of VBscript.

Um. Did you know that with the Windows Operating System. 90% of all hardware you purchase will work with Windows? Did you know that with Mac based computers, you have to purchase Apple branded products, and cannot create your own drivers? Apple is a thousand times works. DRM is a legal, and cannot ever be a crime. Windows included DRM because Movie/Music/Gaming industries told them they would no longer release content for Windows if they didnt have DRM. So windows added it... Then they remove it. Guess what. Apple has DRM to. Apple forces DRM on people through Itune. You have a one sided hate for microsoft, without anything to really hate them for.

Oh trust me, I hate apple, but you can convert an apple machine to some extent, just can't get past the hardware forced limits of having Mac on your computer. You do no have to use iTunes, but with Microsoft's model, DRM is shoved down your throat. Screw you, the user, Microsoft has rights to control you and what you do whether you like it or not. As for hardware issues, I guarantee you that 100% of all hardware I purchase will work with my linux based operating system, because I can make it. I have an iPod touch that I sync music with regularly because I downloaded and compiled a kernel module for it.

And. Everything that the OS reports to Windows is known. For a programmer who made a microkernal.... You need to learn what packetsniffing is....

Have fun with that, many have tried but can not decrypt much of the crap that is sent.

What do you use for c++ programming? I prefer vim or eclipse.

Well, I have honestly moved from C++ to C because I do not really need OO at my disposal, but regardless I just use gedit. My friend has been convinced VIM is god for months now, which I agree with him that it has some great features for if you do not know what is in your library, but it does nothing for me personally when I try reading a word wrapped line. I also have a preference for my line numbers to just be there instead of having to press a key and type in the line. The arguments for faster editing are legitimate if you have a reasonable amount of bash memorized, but yeah... I stick with gedit. It is pretty minimal. I program C, Java, PHP, Flash AS3 (figuring out how to compile that was fun), and pretty much everything with gedit and I run compilers from terminal.

Sorry, you lost me at the part where chmod makes your machine more secure... if an attacker gains access to the root account, how will chmod help you?

In windows you do not need access to an admin account to royally fudge the system. They really need better controls over their file permissions. Hence my comments about chmod.

I think everyone should understand that Microsoft is a company, whereas open source is a movement. Their goals are very different. The former only cares about making money. Having said that, it makes sense why Microsoft would promote their docx format over open standards.

Microsoft is beginning to be right up there with the RIAA in business sense. They are not going out to their customer and giving them what they want, they are limiting them in not only their computing capabilities, but their actual rights. DRM should be a crime. Though, I guess to each their own. If one uses an OS that reports unverified information on your computer to a company, I guess that is one's own business.

I don't think it's fair to say that Microsoft doesn't care about quality products . I'm sure they do, and when you look into just how difficult it is to make an operating system which works with one combination of hardware, you realize how amazing a feat it is that Windows works with all sorts of combinations of hardware. I have to hand it to Microsoft for that. Sure, Windows XP did have an interesting security model by essentially allowing everything to run as root, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that it wasn't quality for its time .

Well, you see I have created a microkernel before. I am one guy and I was quite capable of creating a piece of software that could work on my computer (and every other standard computer today) and interact with the mouse and keyboard input with no problem. Microsoft is a corporation that has been around since common folk really used computers. It really is not difficult, they just make people think it is. Anyways as for the security model, they created a poor one when they could have simply adopted the same one that has been around on most linux OSes for ages now. It is a very secure model and more than reasonable, with chmod at your disposal. Microsoft could have emulated it, but these are the guys that wanted to butcher DOCX in an attempt to snuff out Open Office.

What makes XP outdated and obslete? I love XP it runs absolutely everything and doesn't consume memory with animations and fx.

Windows XP has physical memory limitations. The kernel is not full 32 or 64 bit which makes certain processes slower. You still have some 16 bit operations in it, because Microsoft does not care about producing quality products. The user controls on all windows OSes have been poor and bare, you can install anything and control everything on any account, even if you are not an admin. I could go on and on with more predominant issues but they are programming related issues.