Re: Qualcomm cancels Windows dev kit PC

On 18 Oct 2024 19:10:33 GMT, rbowman wrote:

The problem with being a widely used OS with thousands of 'must have'
applications is you wake up to find yourself in a straight jacket.

The *nix ecosystem also has thousands of “must have” applications, and it
is older than Windows or even MS-DOS. Yet it has evolved in a much more
graceful fashion.

The difference is that Microsoft’s platform has been victim to a long
succession of short-term, profit-driven decisions by managers and bean-
counters, that have totally bit-rotted away any conceptual integrity the
architecture may originally have had. This happened to some extent with
the proprietary Unixes, too, but they are all dead now.

So *nix as a living, breathing and still evolving concept, lives on as
Linux today. And it is now Windows that is desperately trying to copy from
Linux.