From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,19140af19dfa6e01 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-27 02:57:00 PST Path: news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-08!supernews.com!mtu.ru!image.surnet.ru!newsfeed.simtel.ru!Simtel.RU!newsfeed.vmunix.org!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: chris User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030903 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT Ada 0Y plans for garbage collection? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:01:51 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.98.236.164 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net 1064656614 81.98.236.164 (Sat, 27 Sep 2003 10:56:54 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 10:56:54 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:43211 Date: 2003-09-27T11:01:51+01:00 List-Id: Stephane Richard wrote: > You're right of course Pascal :-) > > From Windows 95 to Windows XP is like night and day. They finally got it > right :-). I have to admit. Where they''ll go next however may be a > different stury but I dont know yet. we'll have to follow though on that. They had it right with 2k, they just didn't release a home version. XP is IMO good iff you take out activation (and turn off the Fisher Price GUI), which as time goes on *seems* to becoming more of an issue with techies and laymen than before. Also the policy of not supplying a CD via OEM distribution (instead a "recovery partition" distribution is causing real problems for some folk. Still it's better than single user land, which is IMO the root of many of M$ current problems. Things can only get better from here.