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Originally Posted by Ihmhi
A few years back, Apple made OSX. OSX is not backwards compatable with previous versions of their operating system. Why'd they do it?
Long story short, the old Apple system was a mess. A lot of developers and power users griped about their software not working on OSX, but once you got the stability and other niceties considered most people didn't really mind.
A lot of the problems with Windows is all the legacy code. It really was just sort of hacked together - a little bit of code here, a little bit of code there, etc. What they really need to do is what they promised Vista would be - a brand new OS from the ground up. More secure, more stable.
Windows 7 won't be this OS, and I doubt the next one after that will be. But we can hope... |
Everything I've read from Microsoft suggests that will NEVER happen. They've made it pretty clear that coding an Operating System from scratch that creates a 15 GB footprint on your drive is not realistic. Even in the Linux world we build off the prior generation.
You're absolutely correct that pre-OSX Apple's OS was a mess. They did not, however, build from scratch. They pieced together elements from Linux, BSD, other *nix and various bits of code that made sense for what they were trying to accomplish.