Why Dimdows Sucks
 

The definitive guide
<http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/guides/2010/10/the-21st-century-guide-to-platform-trolling-windows-sucks.ars>.

Re: Why Dimdows Sucks
 

Holy ****, I thought that was bad enough, but this
<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc756733%28WS.10%29.aspx> really
takes the cake: did you know that if you type

del *.htm

by default it deletes all files whose extensions START with .htm? Including
..html, for example?

Law of least surprise, Microsoft has heard of it. No wonder Dimdows users
are scarred by the command line...

Re: Why Dimdows Sucks
 

What it’s like to work at Microsoft
<http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html>:

Twenty-four of them were connected sorta closely to the code, and of
those twenty four there were exactly zero with final say in how the
feature worked. Somewhere in those other 19 was somebody who did have
final say but who that was I have no idea since when I left the team --
after a year -- there was still no decision about exactly how this
feature would work.

... Windows has a tree of repositories: developers check in to the
nodes, and periodically the changes in the nodes are integrated up one
level in the hierarchy. At a different periodicity, changes are
integrated down the tree from the root to the nodes. In Windows, the
node I was working on was 4 levels removed from the root. The
periodicity of integration decayed exponentially and unpredictably as
you approached the root so it ended up that it took between 1 and 3
months for my code to get to the root node, and some multiple of that
for it to reach the other nodes.

So in addition to the above problems with decision-making, each team had
no idea what the other team was actually doing until it had been done
for weeks.

Re: Why Dimdows Sucks
 

On Oct 19, 5:31*pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-
central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
> The definitive guide
> <http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/guides/2010/10/the-21st-century-guid...>.

Hopefully you'll be posting a reminder for the Linux and Mac ones

Re: Why Dimdows Sucks
 

On 19/10/10 7:25 PM, Brocker wrote:

> Hopefully you'll be posting a reminder for the Linux and Mac ones

He won't have do, according to the stats desktop Linux is dead.

Re: Why Dimdows Sucks
 

In message
<a6dc96a4-4e53-4428-8255-b21bdebb34e5@j4g2000prm.googlegroups.com>, Brocker
wrote:

> Hopefully you'll be posting a reminder for the Linux and Mac ones

Here: go wild <http://simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf>.

By the way, one or two parts might be a teentsy bit out of date...