OSXP?

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Windows Vista has 18 thousand different versions, all will poorly placed changes. An example would be the Photo thinger in Enterprise (I think).  And from what I have heard, there are three major groups developing Windows. There is the core group, they develop the kernel and the things around it, and then Windows and Windows Server. The latter two are based off of the first.

There is a new Windows every 4 years, generally, and an update every 2. Wherein Mac has smaller updates every year.  There are two major consumers using Windows, company and personal. As Mac does not have a company version and I cannot use it as an example. But generally, as someone who helped in my school with computers, companies do not want a vast amount of smaller updates.  Wherein the personal side, in this internetz age, we are used to frequent updates.

Businesses want a secure OS that works. Plain and simple. They do not want updates all the time that can fuck up a system. They are not as concerned about pretty OS effects, they would find more use with a very stripped down version of an OS.

Mac has these nice, frequent and small updates. Would that not be very nice with Windows? Not only updates you go and buy for, downloads and updates and more personal things. I know Windows Update does this, security and the like… I guess a better example would be the XP SP3 update, although I have not used it, it has the new Vista Aero theme. The OS would be updated more frequently, but less disruptive. And not having the big bang with new Windows OSs.

A really cool way I can think of would be if you could buy a stripped down Windows and instead of buying different versions, why not just let you buy small packs for updating. So instead of paying for a feature in a certain version, you could buy the ‘Media’ packet, and the ‘Gaming’ packet and stuff of that nature.

And everyone needs to adapt the package downloading that Linux does. Let the OS check the internetz if there are updates and let you download them all together. It would be so much nicer and safer if you were told when there were updates (I mean for smaller programs, not just Nortons and shit) and not have to go around and checking the internetz.

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Tags: linux, mac, Microsoft, osx, windows