well i don't find XP or .Net greatly slow apart from booting up applications - for some reason it hangs for a little while or something.
in the past 5months of using XP though i've only ever had 2 blue screens, both of which were my own fault cause i was trying to do something that XP isn't really capable of.
I've never had the machine lock, crash, etc... into an unrecoverable state meaning that i have to reboot or even worse reinstall as i have in all the other windows and OS's i've used.
i've noticed that XP is an OS that as long as you don't start pissing about with it when you havn't a clue what your doing it'll always work fine... its only when you start messing about with OverClocking, setting up personal bootmodes, accessing the wrong memory areas, running protected areas of the HDD in the Command Line, etc...
if you ever get the Blue screen, i can gaurentee it was YOUR fault which caused it to show ... not simply running an application. As if an application won't run it'll just come up with debug information.
if i was to ever give up the Windows Platform i'd trade it in for AmigaOS Alpha (6.0) which is comming soon, there isn't a chance in hell i'd ever completely use Linux, MacOS or anything like that ... because you have to fart-arse around installing your own GUI, your own Manager for that GUI, setup all the options yourself, and quite frankly i don't want to sit there for several damn'd hours setting GUIs which i can't fuckin' stand using in the first place being carbon copies of useless UI's
sorry but i think all of ya'll being so ANTI-Microsoft for so many years you can't see the trees for the forest. All you see is another Microsoft product, therefor immediatly its bad... i've heard of so many people having so many problem with it, yet how come its ONLY developers i ever hear about these problems from.
my ENTIRE family is using this Operating System, some are on Home, some are one Professional ... only my Father, Brothers and Sister are computer literate - and yet still non of my family has ever had a problem OR got the blue screen!
EVEN MY FREAKING GRANDPARENTS can use it without any problems and have done for the past year!!
personally i think that says a hellof alot more right there than i ever could.
from my POV as a developer, its one of the best systems to work on ... from my POV as a user it is the most fun and robust OS available.
i'm not someone who is all PRO microsoft here and like how they're bloody ripping us off all the time ... that said i'm not such a blind and judgemental fool that i can't recognise a bloody good product when i see and use it. Disagree all you like, that your opinion - but from what i see Microsoft Windows is the most advanced, most robust, most easily developed for, and most easily accessiable by all ranges of the business and private sectors of any operating system.
Tsu'va Oni Ni Jyuuko Fiori Sei Tau!
One block follows the suit ... the whole suit of blocks is the path ... what have you found?
