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Windows is 25 years old, here's 25 facts about it
Alas, not including that it's dead
Thu Nov 18 2010, 14:52
SOFTWARE MONOPOLIST Microsoft's shiny graphical user interface for PCs that it calls an operating system is 25 years old this month.
There are many trivial factoids that have built up over these last 25 years about Windows, and our sister publication V3 has collected some of them in its article Windows @ 25: 25 things you didn't know about the Microsoft OS.
We must warn you though to read at your own risk, because we've read it and we thought it should have been entitled "25 things you'll soon wish you didn't know about Windows". Enjoy. µ
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Come on guys... just use one of the MANY Pinguin distros or the Rotten Apple OS and shut the f_ck up!
Leave the rest (91%) of us alone !
:-D
Of course you can't call a folder 'con', or 'lpt' or 'prn' or anything which is a DOS standard IO device symbol. CON means 'console' and represents the keyboard for input and the monitor for output if you're using the command line.
How about: The idea of a windows based operating system was developed by Xerox out of PARC (Palo Alto Reseach Center), not by Gates or Jobs.
Steve has it spot on.
And to add insult to injury, the software invariably costs way more for UK users to buy than Americans (and I'm not taking about the addition of VAT).
"20. Windows supports 34 languages including Hebrew, Latvian and Arabic."
And yet it is still not available in English, and I mean English, not American.
Even after "Network Neighborhood" got renamed "Network places", and "favorites" became "bookmarks", it still doesn't take much digging to find "color"
My Debian box seems to be able to spell correctly...