Now is the time!

[Hammer]

As you can gather, I spend most my life in Windows. Task management, emails etc via Outlook, documentation in word etc. and to be frank, they all suck.

In R.A.D. and cash flow considerations they are fine.

I am so fed up of the Stupidity of this software. As a developer, I KNOW whats involved. I've written flight managements systems, holiday booking systems, stock control, chemical classification systems so I am experienced. The fundamental floor is the software has been added to and added to. The PROBLEMS are hardly addressed.

Tried Borland C Builder/Delphi 6 (or 7) or Visual Studio dotNET?

Sure, the latest version of Word can have text with sparkly lights but does it know where to put a page-break? No. Does it know how to count? (numbered lists) No. Style management. Yeah, right. Ok, now outlook comes with MSN messanger integration and loads of other bells and whistles but can you create a task and keep someone else informed of progress? No. ?

That’s why a real Windows developer doesn’t build on those existing MS based applications.

Tried StarOffice (Java based)?

Example of contact management/accounting/decision based document/task automation/work flow  refer to http://www.locus.com.au/locus/affinity.html
 (it's a two tier structure) .

And windows? Jesus, dont get me started on that, what the hell is it doing when it boots

A Windows developer should have known some of the basics in regards to Window's boot process.    

[Hammer]

LOL @ Hammer - Don't hold back there mate! :¬)

Ah, OK... (I don’t know what you mean by that in specific terms)?

I also develop for Windows. It's ok. Too much "legacy" (polite way of saying "outdated crap that should have been cut 10 years or more ago") but it does work, sometimes.

(As you may already know)… Legacy support has been the main strength of X86 and Windows due to “investment protection”.  It’s futile to make it as a negative attribute.  

Refer to http://www.amd.com/us-en/Weblets/0,,7832_8366_7823_8718^7839,00.html
Microsoft's view on “investment protection”.    

AROS has the potential (as an alternative means) to protect (and advance) Amiga based software investments outside the PowerPC(TM) architecture.

As far as I am concerned, people are free to promote whatever OS they like.

Sure...

because the superior platform will win in the end.

Depends on how one defines “superior platform” (it’s open to interpretation).

I am pretty sure AROS is/is going OpenGL

Well, the AOS 3.9 has Warp3D, thus it's natural that AROS must have it's own 3D APIs.

Microsoft heavily promote DirectX and DirectX is very tightly integrated (now) with Windows. Indeed it is often preferable to GDI/GDI+ even for basic 2D "desktop" work.

There's a (long term) reason for MS in regards to API migration e.g. Longhorn’s DirectX** WIMP/GUI with real time special effects…      

**access to DirectX 8.1/9 class VPU/GPU's processing power.

 

[Hammer]

"Don't hold back" is an idiomatic expression. I am guessing English is not your first language?

“Don’t hold back” can mean several things…

 

Sorry, just don't agree. Legacy support has been the biggest bane of Windows. I am well aware of MS' position, too. I just don't agree.  

Just look at the results...

 

As for x86, x86 != windows.
 

I don’t recall "X86 equalling Windows"… My statement regarding “X86 and Windows” is focusing on the common “investment protection” characteristics.  

The AMD.com link refers the shared view in regards to investment protection. This view shouldn’t be viewed as degrading the work between SUSE X86 Linux and AMD..  

X86 too has suffered because it is just a 1970s CPU on speed.

"AMD took this opportunity to get rid of some of the less used, or obsolete, functionality of the x86 processor.  Support for the segmented memory module has been removed; all new programs for the x86-64 will make use of a flat 64-bit virtual address space.  Programs executed under the compatibility sub-mode must be run in protected mode, since real-mode and virtual-8086-mode is removed in that sub-mode, and available only in legacy mode.  These changes aren't a big deal though, since not many modern programs make use of these modes anyways." (For AMD K8)