Why did Microsoft sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3276

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 05:13:12 +0000, Jim

That is a whole other topic, no doubt.

I still remember the Pentium Pro fiasco. Microsoft had insisted that it's flagship product - Windows 95 - was a 32 bit operating system. Then when it was run on a Pentium Pro, it would be slower than on a Pentium of equivalent speed. Turns out, Windows 95 still had a lot of 16 bit parts, which Microsoft only admitted after being caught with their pants down and their privates in the blender.

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yep. they've done a lot to hold back the desktop because their system is not expandable to new architectures. Look at how little time it took for Apple to move OS X from PPC to Intel. Look how little time it took for the Linux community to port to the Opteron (not to mention that we've had 64bit ports for non-intel platforms for many years now) and Microsoft has only recently released their 64bit entry.