so you're telling me that this was originally intended for a niche, failed architecture (i860), and then they learned and decided to make it as portable as possible (with as little ISA-specific assembly code they could get), and it was available on x86/MIPS/PowerPC/DEC Alpha (with plans for SPARC at one point), and it even had a built-in OS/2 & POSIX subsystem...and then they all just, threw that shit away? why?
>>108807684Microsoft abandoned much of the backend to make room for Web technologies, .NET Framework and WinFS, believing that they would be the future technologies.Unfortunately for Microsoft, Web wasn't stable, and they haven't finished developing either of those, so they were left with a need to decouple both of them from Windows XP and Vista, which left both buggy on release.After the failed release of WinFS, Microsoft promised themselves to only produce slop, as not to risk any money ever again.
they could not hear tv over scsi and fan humm noise
