lgriffith

"It seems awfully self-destructive that Microsoft is actively shunning power use of their system (without anything viable to replace it yet)." Yet? Every other Microsoft OS a big fail for the past two decades and now it looks like three in a row. That does not look hopful for the "yet" to happen in my lifetime. I would look quite favorably on your developers OS idea and might even be willing to contribute to it. However, the resulting programs would have to run at native speed on the consumer OS's or a consumer level version of the OS would also have to be provided. I suggest, however, there is a very tall mountain to climb. It is called "device drivers". Tens of thousands of device drivers to provide with the count rising faster than the price of gasoline. That is the number one reason why I stick with Windows. I don't have to provide the drivers for any hardware other than the unique hardware my applications must use. The alternative would be for Microsoft to release the Windows 7 code base to the development team and then stay out of their way. That isn't going to happen until long after the 12th of never.

I have long found that a free anything can be one of the most costly things you can receive. Especially something you have to use to do something important to you to get done right. I would much rather pay for what I want and need than to get what I don't want for free. Thus far, it seems that Microsoft et.al. are saying "it is our way or the highway." Looks like a death wish to me. They do have a deep enough pocket to servive Vista 3.0 but it is not clear that they will learn any more from that than they did from Visa 1.0 or Vista 2.0. Sadly the highway has as many or more pot holes as the Microsoft way. Hence, it is my plan to make Windows 10 as viable for my purposes as I possibly can. So far so good at build 9926.

I am an old timer in the computer programming arena - since 1965. Needless to say, I have used just about every computer archetecture, os, and programming language since before the big iron mainframes of the mid 1960's. However, my current focus is on making Windows 10 a viable desktop environment to be able to continue to develop and sell an application software system I first started working on in 1981. For that, I really do need an honest to god desktop environment and not the crippled one that Windows 10 seems destined to become. My software has been tested, excepting some special device drivers, and runs on XP up to and including Windows 10. However, the development environment suffers greatly the closer you get to Windows 10. I find Windows 7 more than adequate. However, each new system I sell requires a new computer and a currently authorized by Microsoft Windows OS. XP is dead, 7 is on death row, 8 is also dead, and 8.1 will be on death row as soon as Windows 10 issuess to the market place. Hence, to stay in buisness, I must find a way to make Windows 10 acceptable to be used for development and for delivery to customers. Most of whom know and love XP and or 7 as in " Windows 8 my computer". Clearly, my problem is not that I resist learning anything new because I have done little else than learn the latest new thing for my entire professional carreer as a Software Engineer. I simply require that my tools match the problems I must solve rather than having my tools dictate the problems I can solve. I live at the intesection of Can and Must! That intersection is a long way away from Microsoft's current Windows fantisy land.