Windows just gets worse and worse and worse. In all honesty the problem lies in trying to bolt on security to an operating system that ignored it from the get go. XP opened the port without security then bolted the Security Patch to it later. Since then Microsoft have been preoccupied with security to the extreme that it now seriously interferes with the use of the computer.
Take 'Find Files Folder' on a Win98 machine that took a blink of an eye to scan a machine compared with say XP and the process just takes for eveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer. Same goes for changing sharing privileges etc. Everytime Windows has to scroll a long file list, check a directory etc there is this security process that is instigated that slows things down. Talking to folk that have used Vista and 7 say the security hurdles are even more intense.... My XP machine is slower than my Win98 machine by a mile and this computer at work is a pain in the....
The Mac is fine but I really don`t like the interface. Sadly.
I am dead in the water with MS from XP cus I just wont sign up to a wholly internet dependant system. Sadly the PS3 is now also internet dependant to play games. A world gone mad....
Saying that I guess we are at the dawn of a new era post OS reliance and MS are doomed anyway when apps can simply run from a browser. Looking forward to that day.
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