Posted on 10/26/2007 7:23:43 PM PDT by jdm
Doesn’t this have more to do with MS’s crackdown on illegal copies of Windows, where users are forced to buy a legal version, or things like their printers quit working, and they get these nasty messages whenever accessing the internet???
Correction. I should have said ‘something’ to do with, instead of ‘more’ to do with.
Microsoft is doing just fine. Longhorn is in the pipe. Visual Studio 2008 is coming along nicely. Their workflow engine is very well done. .NET 3.0 is extremely strong. They have some of best people on the planet working to exploit multicore and network processing.
I love Macs, but they just don't have the commercial properties of Microsoft.
Went to Best Buy yesterday and poked around with the desktops for an hour. I discovered that Vista makes some sense with 3gb ram, above average video card and a good dual core processor. I like the Aero effects and the overall look of Vista
I am slowly buying the parts I need to make (as in screwdriver) a Vista computer
That would be your best bet with Vista, just make sure there are Vista compatible drivers for the parts you choose. Early this year I built a dual core system with a few gigs of RAM and tried Vista on it. Vista ran great and was surprisingly stable, but I just didn't like it because it was a hassle to use. The UAC "security feature" was just intolerable for me. I know it can be disabled, but I understand that the OS heavily relies on it for security. I also didn't like 'cartoony' look of the UI, of course I dislike a GUI anyway.
I run XP so it looks like Windows98. Cartoony aspects of XP get turned off. But I like the Aero look from what I see so far. Really XP is good enough for me. I will build a Vista-Aero computer for the fun of it plus so I can help people who have Vista questions and problems
E2140 is what I’ll get and overclock it. I have bought everything but processor and motherboard for my Vista machine. And if I don’t like Vista I’ll slap XP on it
That's what I ended up doing. I lasted four days on Vista before upgrading back to XP. lol I was going to put Linux on my new machine but there wasn't yet(and still aren't) any Linux drivers for it.
I frequently see language in software that talks about shipped not sold, especially when a company uses indirect sales, they make money on a lot of products they didn’t technically “sell” but they did ship it. Especially in this SOX world everybody needs to make sure their language in any document investors might read is accurate.
If only I had a nickel for every time I heard that. Of course, Microsoft isn't without its impressive bits. Photosynth takes turning pictures into walk-through panoramas to a whole new level. It is revolutionary in that market.
On another level, I just can't trust the competency of a company that would make the absurd design decisions related to Vista's network slowdown in the presence of media playback.
Vista is the platform for some incredible stuff.
Yep, all of the above media will be wrapped in Vista's ingrained DRM and give people headaches for years.
He turned off Vista’s User Access Control - which means he now has no more security than XP SP 2 shipped with.
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