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The evolution of the so called computer operating system Windows carries a remarkeable weirdness. Back in the years nineties it happened MS introduced their big marketing joke called $-95. Nothing to mention really was new about, except for the hiding and automation of the autoexec.bat run, starting first DOS, with the graphical user interface to follow immediately.

Recent versions seem to have thrown away the major batch completely. Whatever shall be inside must be hardcoded, disabling the user to adjust the system startup to his own needs.

In fact this makes W7 and others technologically backwards oriented.

No other company would get through with this.

Besides being a trojan horse (Windows), it is more an application framework for graphical user interfaces, with a bit of pseudo multi threading, than an operating system.

A bad one. If not the very worst.

Imagine a car. Renewing tires is fine, changing brakes, and so on. But every one thousand miles?!

The big invention of Bill Gates, to be as kind to give him honour still because deserving, is the shift of philosophy on the MacOS, once they took UNIX for base.

It's his secret only, why he didn't take 'his' DOS and make a modern variant. Like OS/2.

The idea of a disk operating system in contrast to operating systems gets born into light of the day again on modern Linux setups.

However Gates can be subject of critics, he showed up to be a genious. And then it shall not be forgotton how MSDOS made him a wealthy man.