Ask HN: What do you want to tell Microsoft?

Re:Ask HN: What do you want to tell Microsoft? by jcromartie on Friday September 17, 2010 @12:59PM (#1701832)

> I don't see this as a problem; I like the stability of MS vs. Linux (having watched the rise and fall of devfs and hal now, along with the death of gnome-mount, gconf, gdm theming and xdmcp serving, etc.)

The problem that I see is that "stability" in the Microsoft world is entirely conditional on your willingness to upgrade everything all of the time since the whole toolkit is in a constant state of flux. Sure, you get working and officially-supported frameworks, but the goalposts are always shifting further down the field, and I think that's intentional on Microsoft's part.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to tell Microsoft? by runjake on Friday September 17, 2010 @04:06PM (#1702632)

Could you clarify what you mean by: "upgrade everything all of the time" and "the whole toolkit is in a constant state of flux"? What toolkit, and what upgrades? And how is it different to you than the Linux side of things?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to tell Microsoft? by sapphirecat on Friday September 17, 2010 @02:27PM (#1702214)

I don't think you can say Linux is better in that regard. Every 6 months, there's a new Ubuntu or a new Fedora, and within a couple of years (except for Ubuntu LTS releases, which last three! years on the desktop) they're gone again.

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