I have found this website that says why windows is so unstable and what the major flaw of windows is..
http://osdata.com/holistic/reliable/rel ... m#registry
Windows' major fault...
Windows' and Microsoft's major flaw is their complicatedness. This also applies to incoming vista. MS can't do simple or complex without doing it complicated also. MS vista is the biggest waste of time I can think about.
Windows Vista rapes you, cuts you and pisses inside. Thought these are just nifty side-effects.
It's not the concept of a central settings database which is flawed, it is the implementation. The "flaws" the text describes could all be solved easily by a proper implementation of the concept. It's just typical Microsoft that they implemented the Registry so poorly that even a flat-file solution like /etc looks better by comparison...
Every good solution is obvious once you've found it.
What ever happened to journalled file systems such as NTFS? They make corrupting files impossible negating point 2, which might just explain a few bits of design of NT. That everybody keeps installing XP/Vista on FAT partitions is their own stupidity.website wrote:“I see the existence of the registry as a ‘fatal design flaw’ in NT for the following reasons: 1.) it is the most modified file in an NT system. 2.) the most modified file is the one most likely to be corrupted. 3.) when corrupted the registry crashes the OS.
“No amount of changing data structures or algorithms can fix those fundamental problems.” —Bob Canupe88
Let me answer that question for youSolar wrote:I mean, if concurrent access to a file were such an impossible-to-solve problem, how come that MySQL, PostgreSQL etc. work so fine, even on non-journaling FS? (Rethorical question warning.)
It's not about concurrent access. That's fine. It's about Windows itself crashing or something bad happening to the hardware underlying the system, causing a non-stable status of the disk in which some writes did and some didn't occur. That could make the registry part-deleting a key and part-not-deleting a key. Starting with such a registry makes a bad start.
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Wouldn't it be nice if Microsoft would go back and fix what is wrong with Windows BEFORE they add new features and release the next version? Unfortunately, people run Microsoft and these people don't seem to care that they're releasing the equivalent of a faulty product.
Of course, there are some good things in Windows, it's just that the bad things are what we all remember
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Of course, there are some good things in Windows, it's just that the bad things are what we all remember
.Joe Average doesn't pay for "obscure" fixes, Joe pays for shiny new features. Since the Joes are the vast majority of Microsoft's customers, they get what they want - that's capitalism for you.pcmattman wrote:Wouldn't it be nice if Microsoft would go back and fix what is wrong with Windows BEFORE they add new features and release the next version?
Every good solution is obvious once you've found it.
Capitalism pur sang is getting the product that joe average will pay for, at the price most joe averages will pay you for a total max profit, at a minimum of development expenses. In other words, cutting as many corners using the shittiest systems available so that joe average thinks it's good enough to buy once.Solar wrote:Joe Average doesn't pay for "obscure" fixes, Joe pays for shiny new features. Since the Joes are the vast majority of Microsoft's customers, they get what they want - that's capitalism for you.pcmattman wrote:Wouldn't it be nice if Microsoft would go back and fix what is wrong with Windows BEFORE they add new features and release the next version?