Building your house on sand? (Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition)

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Product:	Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
Date:	30/05/01 (206 review reads)
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Advantages: No slower than last version, More stable than previouse versions

Disadvantages: Expensive for no good extra features

Microsoft's Latest version of their Home User Operating System, Windows Me, has very few features added, and one very powerful feature hidden. Microsoft, not realising it, are doing one of there most stupid mistakes in history. They have hidden the majority of DOS, thinking that it is daunting and too technical for users.

There is a story about man building his house on sand. There are storms, and it falls apart. Another man builds his house on solid ground, and it remains standing. This in someway can be likened to Microsoft's Windows.

Microsoft is building Windows on sand by trying to remove DOS. DOS, despite being old and out dated is a solid surface on which a stable and powerful operating system could be built. However, it would need work before being ready. Instead of removing DOS from there latest versions of windows, they should be building it up.

DOS is dated, and there is no denying it. However, that does not mean that it could be brought up to date. As an operating system, DOS had most things: the ability to manage memory, the ability to manage the CPU and other hardware and the basic tools of an operating system including scandisk, defrag, backup, DoubleSpace etc. If Microsoft did some serious work on DOS and it's utilities, bringing them up to date, adding true multi-tasking, making it 32-bit (or maybe more), then it would form a solid and powerful basis on which they could then start to build a basic yet simple to use graphical interface.

All the technical tools could then be run from DOS, leaving Windows to simply draw windows and be stable.

However, unfortuantely I have to recomend this to a friend because the alternatives at this point in time are not ready (see my review on Linux in General).

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