| Friday, November 15, 2002 |
19:44 - Duff Man is thrusting in the direction of the problem. Ooh yeah!
http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
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It's an ongoing documentation effort by one Michael Jennings, entitled Windows XP Shows the Direction Microsoft is Going. The author prefaces it with this statement:
The author wrote this article because of the need to give his customers fundamental information about the direction Microsoft wants to take them. Few people have the technical background to understand fully the advantages and disadvantages of software as complex as an operating system. Without fundamental information, it is difficult for non-professionals to understand the advice of professionals.
The author is not anti-Microsoft in any way. There appear to be management problems at Microsoft, but the author would like any problems to be fixed, rather than have the entire world suffer through Microsoft doing poorly. Because he has spent considerable time trying to understand the problems, and because he cares deeply about fixing the problems, the author is, in that sense, "more pro-Microsoft than Bill Gates".
That said, give it a read. I'm going to bookmark it and keep an eye on future additions.
Then again, this guy seems like a bit of a ranter, with more concentration on making poorly-bolstered blanket claims than on listing empirical evidence. In contrast, the virtual memory feature in the Linux operating system works extremely well. Really?
Ah well. It's a good resource, but I'll probably have to keep looking if I want the Definitive Reference.
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