I badly need a time machine - back to Y2K
At that time, we get :
* Windows 2000 - the first OS that offered us stability and improvements with a small memory footprint and avoiding childish eyes candy.
* Office 2000 - the last release offering *real* improvements, easy to install, easy to manage.
* Textpad4 - I just trashed the textpad5 release ; having "office like" menus is not enough to justify an upgrade
* VC6 - fast IDE, fast compile time, small memory footprint and blazzing fast binaries
* Delphi 5 - also producing fast and compact binaries. Since then, Borland was not even able to produce a decent help file. Not even to speak of the PHP thing ; use directly PHP !
And the big cherry on the cake, ".Net", that MS does not even use for its own softwares (with the motto "Do what I say, not what I do"). I will only use this crap when MS will give us an entire OS and productivity apps written with .Net. Actually it is only bloatware, changing at light speed (how many release since two years ?).
And a special thanks to the pubzines for their products showcases. Really helpfull.
My wishes for 2008: back to win32 binaries !!!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
