Posted on 10/19/2012 7:26:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“that a significant majority of people with negative perceptions of Vista have never actually used it.”
I used it. What I objected to most was the unnecessary changes to the interface. Worse, those stupid ribbon menus carried over to Office. I couldn’t find anything! As an analogy, suppose you bought a car and found the steering wheel and brakes had been moved to the trunk. That sparked my determination to defect from Windows altogether. I tried a number of Linux programs and settled on Ubuntu. Later, when someone gave me a nice computer loaded with Vista Ultimate, I took that sucker off and installed Ubuntu. No regrets at all.
“for Morons”
Hey - I resemble that remark. I have been waiting to buy my first smart phone to see what Win 8 is all about. Those boxes with just the icons would be tough for me I think. I can’t remember half the icons on my computer as it is - even with the names underneath them! Take away the names and .....
User inyourface is one thing, the internals another.
The Windows concept of the keyboard and the screen
being the computer’s console which means in terms as old
as computers, the one and the only and the last means of
access to the CPU, is flawed from the getgo! Windows user session in this arrangement hangs = the computer hangs,
there is no other session to which you could switch and
free the hanging session. How do you spell “PRIMITIVE”?
Windows 8 is designed for iPads?
I hate any and all finger-swipe devices myself. Threw away my last semi-smartphone touch screen and went back to a slide-out keyboard. And got rid of Unity as well and am using KDE and Xfce.
I still miss XP.
I have a ME Gateway box I paid like $2.5 G’s for back in 1997ish? I wiped ME off and put in XP Professional and the thing still works fine. I am, however, currently using it as a door stop. Not kidding. My iPhone has more processing power.
I’m not baiting you...I have no interest in your perspective because I’m sick of you self-appointed Techno-Priests be-clowning the rest of us in the IT industry with your pious pronouncements of pedantry, in a futile effort to make yourself look smarter than everyone else.
It’s ridiculous.
A house is just a box you eat and sleep in...why bother trying to make it something unique that you enjoy? Why bother picking matching furniture? Why have flatware with different patterns?
Everything can be deconstructed to its fundamental purpose by some know-it-all who thinks everyone else should stop being stupid and just do things the way they do it.
You people are what the rest of us call “bores”.
Clue-up or shut-up.
Got it. You speak for the entire IT industry, and I’m the only one that isn’t wailing about it being “ugly”.
Is it wrong to say that I actually miss Clippy?
True story. My pal, who worked in corporate IT, was at one time helping a hot secretary, or administrative assistant as they are now called, training her in Microsoft Office, using Clippy as an aid, all went well, too well, because one thing led to another, and in the end he told me that “Clippy gave me the clap!”
LOL, now that’s some malware.
And I bet he now keeps his AV definitions up to date!
Yes!
(No “malware” story required to justify)
Yes. They couldn't figure out how to make Clippy sprout an "@" so he landed on the ash heap of Microsoft innovations right along with Bob.
They're both thoroughly buried by now, probably mashed beyond all recognition by that $18,000.00 coffee table touchscreen computer, WinPhone 7 and Zunes by the container load.
Poor things. Whatever happened to that little dog?
He was taken to a nice virtual farm in the virtual country.
As far as you know.
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