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Originally posted by Alpha Kodiak:
The reason for Windows "bloat" is that it provides people with functionality that they want. (I'm talking about the mainstream, not throw-back geeks like us. 
) What you're going to see is more "bloat", not less. .NET is going to really shake things up. I'm just starting to see what can be done using XML as a communication medium. I've just managed to drag myself out of a procedural mindset and got used to event-driven software, and they've moved the marker again. Software technology is evolving at an unbelievable rate. I may not like it, but I have to adapt or my family doesn't eat.
Amiga was doing ALL event driven software in 85. They were also doing concurrent multitasking in multiple windows, which it took ten YEARS for MS to support after they had killed off Amiga and Atari. So you would have had these "advanced" system features on the typical PC 15 YEARS ago without MS. Amiga was the very first machine with a Genlock VCR interface. The list could go on for quite a while. What if ANYTHING did MS do first ??? Check the companies they drove out of business for lost products before you reply.....