Re: Re: FTM 2008 plug in community

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:37:57 -0500, Doug McDonald
<mcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> enriched this group when s/he wrote:

Ye Old One wrote:

Today, writing software that is NOT cross-platform is very short
sighted. Writing anything that requires windows is going to throw away
a large slice of the potential market.

Huh?? Windows is and will continue to be the market. Anything else
is fluff.

Do not believe the Microsloth hype.



And no, software based on .NET is still rare.

That's true, thankfully.


Exposing your computer
to the security problems .NET brings,

What's that? I didn't know it caused security problems.

Everything with Microsoft in its name is a security risk.




coupled with the overall slowing
of a machine with .NET installed,

I'm not aware of slowness problems except when running programs
using it. When I exit it the computer seems perfectly normal.

Do a bare install of XP Pro with SP2.

Now download the many megabytes of update but make sure you unselect
any update to .NET items.

Test. With a good mix of software.

Now download all the .NET updates, it may take more than one attempt
to get them all.

Run same tests.

Results, machine slower. How much slower will depend on the type of
CPUs, older ones will show it more and machines with dual core and a
lot of memory will show it less. But it is there.


Doug McDonald
--
Bob.
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