itix wrote:
Yeah, and you just forget XP includes USB stack, DirectX and a decent browser. You also forget XP includes support for nearly all possible printers and Mediaplayer which can do bit more things than Frogger.
Well, yeah, MS has a programming staff to be jealous of (in size, if not quality of output), so all these things should be available if needed or desired.
But I'm not sure why having support for nearly all printers is usable in defense of requiring so many resources just to boot the OS. Why would any efficient OS, by default, load drivers for printers at startup?
All these can and arguably should be created as standard features, and of course, any system that will run this monstosity would need to have more resources available. But where in all this does it say that it's okay to be inefficient or buggy?
And don't defend it by saying 'it's an OS, it's very complex'. Bull. MS has a staff of a least, what ,say 100 people? Get rid of the bugs! Make it less prone to crashes! (BEFORE you release another version...)
At that point, even I would defend it, and IMO anyone who still bashes it is just being silly.
