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Originally Posted by Samurai  Well, he said critical systems, and that can't be a desktop.  |
Who says that? My desktop is more important to me than a life support system is to a patient
As such, i need my desktop to have an uptime of >99.99999% whichm barring a few reboots (due to bad drivers) vista has kept up in the past 1 year.
But in my openion, standardization is good in the long term even if it hurts in the short term to maintain the best possible compatibility and performance. Many would agree that OpenGL is better than D3D but MS' decision to standardize D3D on the windows OS is what caused the smooth gaming experiance that we enjoy now on different graphics hardware from defferent vendors. Remember the days of add-on cards requirinf manual IRQ tweaking and driver configuration?