Yes! Windows Kernel is a much more "modern" microkernel architecture than any of the circa-1969 Unix-like architectures popular today. We use Windows 10 / Windows Serve for everything at our company, and we have millions of simultaneously connected users on single boxes. No problems and easy to manage.
Every single time I fire up Pythonista on an iOS device I soon realise that any meaningful coding I do requires access to external data. And then I give up, until next time some years down the line.
I love PowerShell. We use it to manage farms of machines, and I use Amazon's excellent PowerShell aws library to do everything from managing my Route53 DNS to setting up new Amazon VPCs.
Security issues aside, it's by far the best OS shell scripting language around, and it has concepts that make it different from any other attempt to write a shell language that includes pipes and redirections.
It would be better if the states didn't treat education like indentured servitude. Society as a whole benefits immensely from an educated populous, and our tax dollars should in turn recognize this. Instead we have a population that's indebted to corporations precisely because there's no other means to pay of their student debt. Why take the risk of a startup or independent venture when you have 100k in debt to pay for an education that makes you a productive member of society.
In my experience it's pretty much impossible to get any kind of UI done in Xcode, at least as of Xcode 7. I'm a totally blind programmer who has a Macbook Air that I run windows on most of the time. I'm not sure if my issues with Xcode were do to a lack of experience with Voiceover on the Mac, lack of knowledge about iOS programming, or lack of accessibility in Xcode. It would be nice if Apple could come out with a basic guide targeted at Voiceover users to create a simple app that allowed you to enter text into a text box, click a couple of buttons and have something happen, etc. I've had a really ahrd time following any guides online to get started with iOS programming. Not sure what other blind developers experiences are though.
In some ways, Microsoft is on the way there with the way PowerShell works, and the ability to script things through OS functions that return objects which can be queried. If we ever see a WinFS, it would be very powerful combined with PowerShell
It's amazing how many people defend Apple while attacking Microsoft here. It's almost as if Apple pays people to do this.
We run Windows 10 and the lastest Windows server on all our machines and don't have problems because we have good, in-house, local IT people and also good security on the edge routers.
The comment you're replying to points out a lot of obnoxious "We know better than you" flaws in Mac OS X that the user has no power to override. I don't see how that's a defense of Apple.
I can uncheck the box that says "Automatically check for updates". It's trivial to override these perceived "flaws" in OS X.
Try doing that with Windows. The best you can do is peruse some lists that people maintain in places like Github. Maybe those work, maybe they don't. Consequently I've avoided Windows for well over 10 years now (except for XP in a VM, which I use for playing Freecell).
> Microsoft abused the update system to download an entire, multi-GB OS (Windows 10) on systems running on Windows 8, "just in case they will want to upgrade".
Just pointing out that Microsoft is not alone with the above practices? It's not a question of whether you can disable it or not, it's that ALL companies do this. I don't necessarily like this but I empathize, general consumers don't know what's good for them, and Microsoft's reputation for security is on the line here.
