Re: Expanding on KB 244600?

"Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNoSpam@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Interesting history trip. I would agree that the all, everything, plus
kitchen sink,
approach has well-known problems, and a lesson that appears not learned,
in
fact not learned pretty much anywhere. With so many of the problems in
systems
(not just Windows) stemming from the need to carry legacy forward, one
would
think it might occur to someone that the kitchen sink approach will have a
very
large footprint into the future ("but we cannot drop that - someone might
be
using it").

Some of the open systems UNIX platforms such as OpenBSD have a minimalist
approach where you only include the absolute minimum into the installed OS
required to do a single specific job. It works extremely well and exposes
absolute minimum footprints to exploit. Too bad they just don't matter
commercially.

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Will


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