Posted on 07/03/2012 6:54:50 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Microsoft spills the beans
Last modified on Tuesday, 03 July 2012 11:06
I am migrating to FreeBSD Ubuntu and OpenOffice one machine at a time. The Gates have the last dollar from me they will ever get.
ROFLMAO!!
And Apple’s new Leader not only backs gays, he is one!
Guess how old I am?”
You’re older than dirt. I used to use a Commodore 64 when I worked for a grain company way back when, a manual typewriter with carbon paper, a ditto machine and a non-electric adding machine which required you to manually flip the carriage over one place to the left if you wanted to multiply something.
I dare say most people nowadays wouldn’t be able to work in the non-automated office environment of the past.
What, XP has been superseded?
I am currently downloading Fedora 17.
I will install it as a vm on my Windows 8 Hyper-v system.
I have FreeBSD and Ubuntu installed there already.
In case anyone else cares but doesn’t know, Windows 8 has the Windows Server Hyper-V role available for installation. If your physical CPU and motherboard can be set to turn on virtulization in the BIOS, then you can install Hyper-V in Add New Features in the Programs applet of Control Panel. From there you can install any legal system you own (Linux systems are open source and can be installed freely) as a virtual machine.
Try it, it’s awesome!
I have had every version of TRS-DOS starting from the Model 1, every version of MS-DOS and Windows that Microsoft has put out. XP was advanced for the time of its release. It was easy to navigate around in and to fix problems in. Vista sucks only because (after the first service pack) it worked well but didn’t do much that couldn’t be done in XP with add-ons. I do like 7 because of the reliability, I seldom restart my machine but about once a month or so I restart just make sure there aren’t an cobwebs growing. It is my understanding that 7 is much more secure than XP. I do like all the eye candy in 7 and especially the ease of control of multiple monitors. I do like the way 7 (64) can handle so much memory and multiple processors.
I do not like the way that 7 abandons so much old software. Us old people have a lot of old stuff that we have gotten used to and don’t want to change. I still like my Office 97 very much thank you, don’t need no stupid ribbon.
A friend who supports computer users has 8 up and has demoed it to me a few times, there is a lot to like. It is 7 if that is what you want it to be looks wise or you can have the other interface the new “8” version of windows, so far I don’t care for that but if I had a Windows 8 touchscreen tablet I might think differently about it. The most interesting thing is that nearly all the tiles can be live, actually small versions of the program running so that you can have an eye on what is happening on your machine all the time, or you can easily flip back to the regular 7 style interface, it is easy to go back and forth on the fly.
People rail on MS but they have done a lot of fascinating stuff a lot cheaper than the other guys, Apple, just wish they were as cheap as Linux.
It’s that good Catholic upbringing shining through.
And yet we thought we were state of the art folks, and we were. We were the computer experts of our day paving the way for future generations.
Hmmm funny, I paid that or less to upgrade OS X.. I’m glad MS is finally realizing OS upgrades aren’t worth as much as a freaking machine itself.
Though frankly IE9 is absolutely useless, ever ever had a virus in my life, but am hit with a new search hijacker within a day of removing the last one.. I gave up completely using it after the 3rd time.
It did if you had a machine running on Vista.
I am running F14 on my machines, will upgrade when I move the next machine away from MSFT.
Windows 7 is Microsoft’s greatest operating system ever... To say it has no appeal is quite a stretch. I administer an environment of over 1800 windows machines and we’re slowly moving them all to 7. It runs, and boots much faster with new and old hardware than xp. The file system doesn’t degrade over time either which causes eventual slowdowns with xp.
As far as Windows 8 it will need to be priced competitively because I don’t see it being adopted like windows 7 is.
I hated Vista; I was happy with XP, but the new computers didn’t come with it; 7’s OK.
So for only $39.99, you can “upgrade” your existing OS to eliminate the start menu and replace it with a set of large, colorful Fisher-Price blocks that all point to Microsoft stores and products and which are functional only on touch screen devices, while at the same time completely destroying the utility of the mouse. Sounds like a bargain to me.
I hated Vista; I was happy with XP, but the new computers didn’t come with it; 7’s OK.
I dare say most people nowadays wouldn’t be able to work in the non-automated office environment of the past.
I started out printing a local newspaper on a mimeograph with my Dad back in the '50s then later became a typesetter on a Linotype machine. Note: "Linotype," not "Fonttype". We weren't called "typesetters" for nothing. Never heard of anyone called a "Fontsetter."
I agree. I liked XP but the computer I got in ‘09 came with Vista and I hated it. I was happy to upgrade to 7.
Deo Gratias!
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