Post by GooRoo on Sept 10, 2008 11:07:05 GMT -8
I have automatic updating selected, and today received (while I was away, playing 
) a security update. It took 17 minutez for my browser (Firefox, non-Microsoft browser) to open up. Even if this is a one-time thing, I am most unhappy with Microsloth's arrogant attitude toward its customerz. Their software is bloated and usually very sloooow ... and for monthz, Internet Explorer (on my MS-XP(HE) system) refusez to close.
Several yearz ago I tried to port one of my programz written for a local business over from the Amiga computer to the Intel-based computer, using Microsoft Visual C++. The Amiga version of the program was about 22Kb (yes, 22,528 bytez!) in size. The Visual C++ version for Windoze (
) was 3Mb (approximately 3,145,728 bytez) ... and I could not even get it to run! (I had been a computer programmer for over 35 yearz (professionally!), and had written hundredz of programz on at least a dozen different computerz and operating systemz. Programz that I wrote in 1969 were still in use on a daily basis in 1999! But Windoze and I just never got along. And Microsoft's practicez effectively put the Amiga out of business ... hiring away the programmerz that were developing software for the Amiga.) I was running about 40 programz concurrently on my Amiga, including two different disc copy operationz ... with 512Kb of RAM ... in 1986! (And neither disc copy operation seemed to suffer any significant slow-down ... try that on a 1986 vintage Intel computer!)
Enough of my soap box ... the intent of this message is to beware of the resultz of Microsoft security updatez on an XP system. I will be able to tell whether Vista customerz suffer a similar fate soon ... I just replaced my wife's computer, and Vista is the default OS, so I will have some experience with Vista in a few weekz.
) a security update. It took 17 minutez for my browser (Firefox, non-Microsoft browser) to open up. Even if this is a one-time thing, I am most unhappy with Microsloth's arrogant attitude toward its customerz. Their software is bloated and usually very sloooow ... and for monthz, Internet Explorer (on my MS-XP(HE) system) refusez to close.Several yearz ago I tried to port one of my programz written for a local business over from the Amiga computer to the Intel-based computer, using Microsoft Visual C++. The Amiga version of the program was about 22Kb (yes, 22,528 bytez!) in size. The Visual C++ version for Windoze (
) was 3Mb (approximately 3,145,728 bytez) ... and I could not even get it to run! (I had been a computer programmer for over 35 yearz (professionally!), and had written hundredz of programz on at least a dozen different computerz and operating systemz. Programz that I wrote in 1969 were still in use on a daily basis in 1999! But Windoze and I just never got along. And Microsoft's practicez effectively put the Amiga out of business ... hiring away the programmerz that were developing software for the Amiga.) I was running about 40 programz concurrently on my Amiga, including two different disc copy operationz ... with 512Kb of RAM ... in 1986! (And neither disc copy operation seemed to suffer any significant slow-down ... try that on a 1986 vintage Intel computer!)Enough of my soap box ... the intent of this message is to beware of the resultz of Microsoft security updatez on an XP system. I will be able to tell whether Vista customerz suffer a similar fate soon ... I just replaced my wife's computer, and Vista is the default OS, so I will have some experience with Vista in a few weekz.
