or more specifically, the Windows lineage.
People have fallen hook line & sinker for pretty screens and wizzy audio & video feeds and yet the operating systems themselves have singlularly failed to improve the amount of time that people have to wait for these damned machines.
My Windows Vista machine that is now about a year old takes as long to boot up as my very first 386 machine did in the early 90's...and it's got nothing on it other than Office and iTunes.
It's all the services the o/s has to fire up to monitor this, guard that, update whatever and they're all a result of the architecture...or the way that Windows runs.
If Ford made a car that took 5 minutes to start, even when brand new and that you had to periodically fiddle with to stop unecessary things taking it longer to start and indeed stop there'd be uproar!
Oh and if you had to go back to the maker every single day to get updated parts and fit them yourself just to make sure it ran reasonably ok...questions would be asked in Parliament!
But apparently it's acceptable with Windows.
There's no way that computers are user friendly.
In 20 years of working in IT (yes, I work in IT and I hate computers) I've not seen anything whatsoever that shows me that Windows has progressed one iota.
grrr
Edited: 08/02/2009 at 20:13
