I find it ridiculous that, after so many iterations of the Microsoft Windows operating system, we still need a service like Soluto (which won the TechCrunch disrupt 2010 competition) to be able to have a proper personal computing experience and to force the industry to change in the future. No offense intended here, Soluto just tries to lift the burden of all these Microsoft Windows users that have to use their ever slowing and destabilizing machines. However, in my opinion, it’s because of the bad design of Microsoft Windows OS(s) that 3rd party apps can claim resources in the way they do and interfere with stable operation of the system.
The founders of Soluto mention in the video interview by Robert Scoble that people tend to blame Microsoft Windows for the problem while actually it’s the 3rd party apps that drain resources and make the system unstable. That is definitely true, but what they don’t say is that the operating system itself doesn’t have to allow these apps to cause these problems in the first place.
For sure there is ample opportunity to innovate operating systems such that applications can’t hog resources the way they do and users have more clear and understandable control, all by design of the OS; on the level of business models, technical architecture, resource management and user interaction.
It’s great that through Soluto Microsoft Windows users could challenge the industry to give them a better experience, but we didn’t have to get into this situation in the first place. Do we want to continue the Microsoft Windows hegemony by using a service like Soluto and just hope for change? Or should we just ditch this productivity draining OS (this is my personal experience) all together and use all the great alternatives out there & invent a better personal computing future without it?
I already opted for the second.
Tags: innovation, Microsoft Windows, operating systems, OS design, rant, soluto, techcrunch disrupt
