What's wrong with O/S development?
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There seem to be a trend these days with M$ breaking its own O/S with updates. It used to happen in the olden days (definition: anything more than a couple of years ago) but not as often. Windows 10 was supposed to be the ultimate solid, stable O/S and, after decades of experience and developmental work, it should have been. Why isn't it? Is it because all the old, experienced programmers who developed it are now enjoying their retirements on various beaches around the world and the new programmers are little more than script kiddies to whom new icons and competing with that fruit company are more important than solid, reliable code that does the job? Is, as per the aforementioned fruit company, form more highly rated than function? :doh: Is it just that adding new, fancy but generally useless features are more important than fixing old bugs? :wtf: I'm sure Marketing thinks so. X| Why wasn't Windows 7 left alone a bit longer? It worked, was the most stable version of Windows to date, and just worked with nearly everything? Why did they decide that so-called smart phones were the future of computing and so ruin the desktop interface? I'm seriously thinking of going back to a flip phone. ...and for those who say Linux is the future, it's going the same way - only it's going several different ways all at once and seems to be getting less reliable by the day (it's those pesky kids again). Applications should be more important than the operating systems. What you can do with your computer should be more important than how the colours and icons look - and how much blank, white space you can use up on the screen, and who the heck thought invisible until you use them scrollbars were a good idea? :mad:
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
I feel this is rose-tinted. Used all the Windows versions extensively, from leaked alpha builds to preview server versions and everything in between. Windows 10 is the best version in my opinion, and before that Windows 8.1, and before that Windows 7, before that Windows XP, and before that 98SE, and before that 3.1 My metrics are hardware support, first hand experience with BSOD, maintenance effort, and most critically: how often does family bug me with technical questions per year. Since Windows 10, the latter has dropped off to 0 calls each year. :D
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IMHO, they are hiring less skilled developers/employees to fill roles that required more skill and experience. it's a lot cheaper to higher a 30 year old with less skill and experience, than a 50+ year old with way more experience and skill.
It's a double-edged sword, I guess. On one hand, experienced specialists are reliable workers who can handle many tasks, but on another hand, they are more expensive and supercilious. Sometimes is better to hire a young mind with fewer demands, because one day they become experienced too. Also, it trends change rapidly and programmers have to learn something new permanently. So if you're experienced it's well, but on another hand, you have less free space on your "hard drive".
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There seem to be a trend these days with M$ breaking its own O/S with updates. It used to happen in the olden days (definition: anything more than a couple of years ago) but not as often. Windows 10 was supposed to be the ultimate solid, stable O/S and, after decades of experience and developmental work, it should have been. Why isn't it? Is it because all the old, experienced programmers who developed it are now enjoying their retirements on various beaches around the world and the new programmers are little more than script kiddies to whom new icons and competing with that fruit company are more important than solid, reliable code that does the job? Is, as per the aforementioned fruit company, form more highly rated than function? :doh: Is it just that adding new, fancy but generally useless features are more important than fixing old bugs? :wtf: I'm sure Marketing thinks so. X| Why wasn't Windows 7 left alone a bit longer? It worked, was the most stable version of Windows to date, and just worked with nearly everything? Why did they decide that so-called smart phones were the future of computing and so ruin the desktop interface? I'm seriously thinking of going back to a flip phone. ...and for those who say Linux is the future, it's going the same way - only it's going several different ways all at once and seems to be getting less reliable by the day (it's those pesky kids again). Applications should be more important than the operating systems. What you can do with your computer should be more important than how the colours and icons look - and how much blank, white space you can use up on the screen, and who the heck thought invisible until you use them scrollbars were a good idea? :mad:
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
Turn off invisible scroll bars: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/103061-turn-off-automatically-hide-scroll-bars-windows-10-uwp-apps.html
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Turn off invisible scroll bars: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/103061-turn-off-automatically-hide-scroll-bars-windows-10-uwp-apps.html
Thanks for this info. However, my point is why would they be invisible by default? What idiot thought that was a good idea? The same one who thought hiding file extensions by default was a good, secure, idea? :mad:
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Thanks for this info. However, my point is why would they be invisible by default? What idiot thought that was a good idea? The same one who thought hiding file extensions by default was a good, secure, idea? :mad:
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.