The Cornerplay: Explaining Steve Ballmer's Microsoft

[TheNetAvenger]

If Ballmer is so f-bombing smart, why does Win* still have a registry structure? Never have used a Win machine that didn't need restarting 4-5 times per day, mostly using only MS software. Custom software was usually better, but still once a day restarts. Same custom SW on linux ran 444 days and on OSX had to be restarted 3 times in 4 years.
Windows? (head shake)

Well my friend, because ALL OSes have a registry structure or are highly UNSTRUCTURED and use a poor central data model.

The registry is nothing but a system wide database for 'settings' storage. PERIOD. (People that complain about the registry, are commenting on registry corruption problems on FAT partitions in the mid 90s, and don't realize that the base technology is inherent to ANY modern OS model.)

If you see a Windows 7 or 8 machine that needs to be restarted for anything but to issue an update, you have hardware problems. This is not 1999 or even 2005 - Windows is 'ironically' now more stable than Linux or OS X.