Posted on 09/20/2011 12:15:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Microsoft's obituary has been written plenty of times. There was no place for the software mammoth in a tech world designed -- and dominated -- by Apple. CEO Steve Ballmer was unable to steer the company to a position of growth, leaving Microsoft selling PC software in a post-PC world. So often has Microsoft been written off as irrelevant that investors have largely stopped believing in the stock, which has spent the bulk of the past ten years in a tight range between $25 a share and $30 a share. On Monday, the stock closed around $27, which is where it traded around this time of the year in 2008, in 2006, in 2004, in 2001 … you get the idea.
In the past five days, however, Microsoft's (MSFT) shares have risen by 5%, following the presentation of its latest operating software, Windows 8, to developers. Designed as a fresh start for Windows, it attempts to bridge mobile devices, tablets and traditional PCs. That modest uptick is a sign that investors that have so long written off Redmond's stock may be doing so at their own peril.
In early reviews, Windows 8 received perhaps the strongest praise ever for a version of its operating system and opened up the possibility that Microsoft could in fact become relevant in the so-called post-PC world.
Jean-Louis Gassée, a former Apple (AAPL) executive, wrote that the touch-based Metro user interface added to Windows 8 "is a step along the 'Windows Everywhere' road that leads to a single, elegant UI for all Microsoft-powered devices, whether they're PCs, smartphones, or tablets." TechCrunch called it "actually quite cool and quite intuitive." Even John Gruber, an influential Apple blogger, conceded "it could utterly fail as an iPad competitor, but still be a successful OS."
(Excerpt) Read more at tech.fortune.cnn.com ...
If you are going to upgrade your 2000 to xp, only build the xp to SR2, then upgrade explorer to version 7 or greater. After that install sr3.
Otherwise explorer is unstable. It’s a bug doze refuses to fix.
I assume you mean IE?
I have not used IE since about a year after Firefox came out. Well, I used it at work because it was the easiest way to get to the intranet SharePoint sites. And that was version 5 as of last month...
Yeah. Migrate is what I mean. I always. ALWAYS do a clean install from scratch. I’ve also never owned a computer where I did not have the operating system and all other software discs. I’ve had to re-install windows and a few others. What the heck does someone do when they get a machine with no disc and the operating system gets corrupted?
Yeah, not that I always use it, but it is key to the Office Suite update feature.
Take it to Best Buy and let the Geek Squad make it worse?
Seriously, I agree with you. I make my own computers, too.
It’s not his fault the stock market hasn’t been paying attention. MS is making money hand over fist and yet their share price won’t budge. He’s running the company well, even if he is a bit odd when out in public.
Or borrow a college student and go to the college bookstore. Or find somebody who used to work there and has access to the MS store. MS list price is the sucker price, it’s always available cheaper legally with a little leg work.
I got mine for 300. Office included + Win 7 business.
“He has one and says it is really not much more portable than his apple laptop and significantly inferior in ease of use.”
Funny that.
You can make an image of your boot drive with this free software. Be sure to generate a stand-alone boot CD as well.
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/br-free/download.html
—Be sure to generate a stand-alone boot CD as well.—
Well, where else would you put the image besides a thumb drive?
I put an image on the 2nd partition of the boot drive and also one on a USB HD. You can also put an image on DVDs. A thumb drive should be OK as well...just seems a waste of a large thumb drive to just hold a backup image.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.