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#38 What the hell was that. Change your meds!
#30 – I hate stupid words too, like lawyer.
#31, #38 Talk to each other. A lot of the flak that Vista took was over upgrades. MS likes to sell them, it’s a high per-license fee coming in. But most of the time the most cost effective for the user who, for whatever reason *needs* the newer OS, is simply to buy a new computer with the OS already installed. Not only way cheaper (because the bulk license is included in the cost of the computer), but more likely to work, too. Yeah, then you have a computer to give away.
Win2K still works great. You need to have an alternative strategy to protect yourself from malware, because updating to the latest patches isn’t an option. Three good starts are:
1. aside from the OS, don’t use any MS software;
2. turn off all the options;
3. use a router-firewall.
Six Versions of Win7 ??? That’s Ballmer’s P&G experience showing !!! What else would you expect from a Soap Salesman ??? Cutting the “Product” into different sized “Cakes” !!!
Been working on my wife’s Mac for two days to remove the $100/year MobileMe package (annoying, but it’s gone now), then putting on Thunderbird and GMail to replace it (turned out to be easy with a little reading).
The next biggest annoyance was fighting the MacOS user interface. Sorry Mac OSX people, you users would be better off using the underlying BSD Unix than the Mac OSX interface. Even the user interface on the old Macs was better.
By comparison, my experience with Vista has been a piece of cake for two years–no blue screens. I hope Win7 is as good…
As a kid raised by my public school system to use Mac OS…Windows is the only way. Linux lacks two key elements: Common software compatibility and a user-focus design, and Mac’s are too Cult of Apple focused to notice that they aren’t as open and free-form (yes, I said that about MS, but really, you can do nearly anything to the OS and the hardware you want to to make it your own, and if you can’t, the software is out there) as Windows.
Now, hopefully when I get Win7, I won’t have the weird-ass soft-crash issues Firefox seems to have on Vista.
I agree with Sea Lawyer. When did “embiggen” become a real word? That’s not very cromulent.
#30,47: All words were “made up” at one time or another. Embiggen has been around for a while now and it has entered the American, neigh, the world’s conscious usage like a tick burrs into sunburned skin.
If it’s good enough for one, Homer Simpson, it’s good enough you! It’s even in the Springfield theme song, for cripes sake!
“That a people might embiggen America,
that a man might embiggen his soul.”
Now if the word I invented — Interwebitubes — right here on the blog would go into widespread use, the world would be a better, embiggened place!
Microsoft is falling victim to the market segment obsession like intel did, where they intentionally were disabling CPU caches in order to “fit” a certain price point.
Retarded, but nothing new. Howzabout Microsoft’s obsession with Standard and Enterprise versions of the same software, with a huge premium tacked onto extra features rarely used.
Well, I have both a mac and a pc in front of me right now. Generally speaking, the mac gives me less trouble and is a lot easier to write “ad hoc” programs for, but the pc is much more compatible with 3rd party software.
I also have experience in Linux and Unix, and while I find their power to be great if you are willing to overlook certain refinements (and in the case of Linux, any sense of UI consistency), they are mainly only useful as servers.
Speaking as a 7 year member of Comptia and someone who works on computers all day, I can tell you that fanatics in all courts are generally wrong.
#45 – You just aren’t used to the UI.. trust me on that one, it’s like anything else, takes a while to get used to… Mac users moving to PC’s have just as much problems.
The entire thing with having several different versions of the same OS is disappointing, and will hurt M$ in the long run. (There is no better faster way to disgruntle customers than to make them FEEL as if the are being ripped off, even if they aren’t.)
It is a nightmare for potential developers as well, as they will have several different possible feature sets on any given box.
As to #3 “Would it be smarter for them to simply have one product? Sure, but computer manufacturers would have a fit.”…
That insight is preposterous… Computer manufacturers hate it most of all, because they have to preemptively guess their customers wants and then perform the equivalent of paying to have their support staff to be trained SIX TIMES… (So that they know which solutions will work for which customers..)
Anyway, just my 2 cents..
Chris