That said, even I admit that IE is a pile of shit. Firefox and Opera may have their flaws, but are way ahead of IE, allowing me to do EVERYTHING faster and more efficiently – especially Firefox (assuming I get to customize it with add-ons so that it is efficient and suits my needs). Even Microsoft realized that Firefox is years ahead of IE, which was why almost all the IE7 and IE8 features were copied from Firefox. Then again, at least it isn’t as bad as Safari…

It’s only since Ray Ozzie showed up watched his own Javascript code puke in IE have things slowly started to change. Obviously they’ve gone from way ahead to way behind, hence the new browser war.

Funny that, of all the browsers on the Market, IE is the oldest.

I wish it wasn’t so. But there it is, two people open a spreadsheet at the same time on Google docs, and start editing, and they get a massive fail… Well it fails to tell them that they are destroying each others work that is.

But no, my application is over 5 different locations with about 100 different users. Why, do you know some colaboration product that works better than sharepoint without a costly VPN, or works in the sort of install it and go way that sharepoint does?

If I were smaller I would just use one of Microsofts ASP’s btw.

On another point, anybody notice that some of the cranes around Redmond campus have already come to a halt? Are they going to finish those buildings?

I ignored it in beta. I didn’t realize it was near release. Wow, nice upgrade. It is annoying that you have to reboot just to upgrade the browser though.

Hey look at that, slashdot no longer crashes my ie!

Lol, welcome to maturity! Thats how the 95% of the world that is not fanboy views their computer. Boring office tool. Are you a boring office tool?

Also… If you want to work on your office documents with more than 2 or 3 people at a time you abso’fucking’lutely care about sharepoint. LOL.

The problem is that MS has become boring beyond belief. I’m sorry, desktop search just isn’t that exciting. Nobody cares about Sharepoint everywhere. The .NET model is becoming increasingly difficult to program for.

There are a lot of bright people at Microsoft, but I don’t think they trust their own senior management.

#7 A good OS? So far 7 only looks like Vista 1.1, nothing else.

#8 You were too generous by giving it a level 2.0. And that new file system is being touted about since w2k and we’re still waiting. Although I’m quite happy with NTFS.

#10 I don’t know about the /etc folder, buy the registry has to go. It’s a real hinderance.

NTFS is still better than anything on linux. See this websites daily data loss for example. ZFS, bringing to linux (someday) the features NTFS has had since 1992!

Also, if you want to talk about crap, Firefox a fosstard first application, works better on windows than it does linux. Oh also it has more plugins on windows than linux.

#8,

Yeah, the /etc directory is like a worse version of the registry. Good job with that! Oh, why hasn’t anyone used MySql to make an index for Gnome or KDE? Seems to me you are stuck until you get search at least as good as Vista. ROFL.

#9,

Bummer, what am I doing wrong? You get those easy retrofit deals, while I just got a deal to install a sharepoint server, because google docs has poor user contention. Oh how I miss the days of mindlessly installing operating systems and wondering “what next?” LOL.