technology advancements

don't know if i'm the only one who thinks this so i thought i'd post and see. why is it that when it comes to computers and operating systems no one can seem to figure out how to make one that can run on low specs. i know linux can run on very low system specs and that if you disable a bunch of stuff on xp it can too. my point is why can't anyone at microsoft make something that has the same performance and quality but runs on low specs. take windows vista for example. 2 gigs of ram is what you need the run the beta version and make it look good. why can't they find a way to take something that needs 31mb of memory to run and make it only need 2mb to run? i just feel like instead of going from big and bulky to small and convienient it's opisite of that. cell phones started out big and now they're tiny. why haven't we seen a microsoft os that follows that pattern? i say all of this with games aside cause i know that games are the reason why computers are so high end now. i'd like to hear your feedback on this subject.

 

the thing that confuses me is the imposed limits on cameras, phones etc. i do not understand how it costs more to produce say a 2 GB chip than a one GB. i was looking at new phones the other week, and now they have mp3's incorperated, but only at a few hundred mb's. why?

 

If you wanna get technical...they do have Windows Mobile 5.0...however that is for PDA's and not PC's.

Roger

 

OS's are huge because of legacy code buried in there. No body knows what it does and is afraid to remove it. And with as stupid as the average person is, they have to make the OS pretty much bullet proof with exception catching on every tiny little thing.

We all know that end users will find a way to destory even an anvil.

 

Remember it was claimed that Bill Gates originally said "640K ought to be enough for anybody". There are some funny quotes here: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

I like

"It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of. "

"What's a network?"

"The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system."

There you have it, from the horses mouth, Bill Gates wrote "garbage can" software.

Also the IBM boss claimed to have said in 1943 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson#Famous_misquote

 

Microsoft design the software to make use of the latest technology,where do you think they make their money,people buying new computers with windows installed,I remember a quote from somewhere that microsoft wanted to work toward most users buying a new computer every year,both are intertwined technology and software they both have to be on a par or one then both will suffer

You have to also think from the other guy perspective,if he's just spent a $1000 on a new windows computer he dam well wants the operating system to make use of that power even if its just bells and whistles