Microsoft's Equation Editor isn't even worth mentioning
Why the equation editor is not even worth mentioning? The one comes with Office 2007 is pretty good. Some of my friends are more likely to use Word instead of exclusively Latex because of it.
MS bashing aside, they don't have to make sure the new OS run on the low-end hardware at the beginning of each release cycle, before the netbook thing took off and CPU has to be multicore to keep improving. In the good old days, developer don't need to worry about the lower end of the hardware during planning. The OS release is rather a long development cycle (at least for Windows), 3-4 years. When the new release comes out, the high-end machines during planning phase are already the lower end. Companies will upgrade the hardware anyway, perfect fit for the new release.
Things are different now, as the single CPU is not any faster and it is even slower (netbooks), such the development assumption also changed. I don't see anything wrong with whole thing.
It has been discussed in that thread. That patent was actually a valid one. It is about a clever way to hint the content without fully loading the document. That summary was a troll and paint the whole thing differently. It was not as general as this one under discussion.
since many years ago. Their PC lines are the most crippled PC products I have ever seen. They often use some strange/closed hardware that nowhere to find open source driver. And now this.
Toshiba is not much better. Lenovo/IBM usually much better than them anyway. I would rather even stay with DELL if I have to.
Yup, I second that. I've used Vista and 2008 server, and the volume control is the ONLY improvement.
Then you guys are not paying to much attention the features. My favorite feature is the new video stack, which got further improvements in Win7. The video memory is now virtualized, just like what people have been doing to the main memory. No more fighting for video memories between two directx applications. You don't even have to reboot after installing the video driver. Aren't that an important improvement to server especially?
Also the UAC IS an improvement over XP/2003, which makes running as lower privileged user much less painful. For server 2008, hyper-v is the most important improvement over virtual-server, let alone new IIS and terminal server improvements.
Talking about volume control is the ONLY improvement!? And that is not possible in XP, which requires the new sound stack.
How do you know not because of your small sample size happen to fall into those didn't break? A small number of "not happening" does not disapprove "some thing can happen". That is basic logic.
actually, the grandparent says some facts. believe or not, here is a huge and growing middle class in China, especially in large cities. In large cities like Beijing and Shanghai, the average income is about $300/month, if not higher (but with common goods much cheaper than here). And stores like starbucks is very popular there, who sells coffee at the same price as in US, if not higher. I am not saying that there is absolutely no people earn $10/month in factories, but the inflation in China and devalue of dollar here the same time, it will be very hard to find a wage at that level. China is not in Africa, after all.
FYI, open office 2.4 can read OOXML files as it is in MS office 2007. I expect the implementation will be better in near future. And you can unzip the file and edit using text editors if everything else fails. After all, it is XML. I wonder how will you feel when you come back in 1 or 2 years to read what you just wrote.
It is amazing to read "standard" and "closed, propriety format" in one sentence. Are you sure you know what are you talking about? I assume when it is a "standard", everyone can read it and implement it ( let alone how complete the implementation is ), that is not "closed, propriety format". And where did you hear IBM is banned by EPA because of fighting MS? I really want to know your reference.
I call that is Bullshit
Do all the different hardware manufactured in the past 15 years are all magically disappeared and Vista does not support any of them?
Does each of those manufactures have only single products? How many versions does each product have and how many different bugs are there?
I don't see the world has been much simpler than 10-15 years ago.
I don't believe the Bootcamp/VM setup violates the EULA for Ultimate because they are just different ways of launching the same image. If this is a violation, certainly a docked and undocked laptop violates it. Think again! you are running the same image on two different machines. One real and one virtual with totally different hardware to the OS's point of view. As far as I can tell, WGA works correctly as it intended. If you want to blame, you have to blame Parallels for false ad. And they didn't virtualize exactly the underlying hardware.
The following quote supports the parent's point
The most notable difference between SOM and COM is support for inheritance -- COM does not have any. It might seem odd that Microsoft produced an object library system that could not support one of the most fundamental concepts of OO programming, but they did have their reasons. The main issue is that it is difficult to know where a base class exists in a system where libraries are loaded in potentially random order. COM demands that the programmer specify the exact base class at compile time, making it impossible to insert other derived classes in the middle (at least in other COM libraries).
SOM instead uses a simple algorithm, looking for potential base classes by following the inheritance tree and stopping at the first one that matches; this is the basic idea behind inheritance in most cases. The downside to this approach is that it is possible that new versions of this base class may no longer work even if the API remains the same. This possibility exists in any program, not only those using a shared library, but problem can become very difficult to track down if it exists in someone else's code. In SOM only solution is extensive testing of new versions of libraries, which is not always easy.
Check your T22, I bet there are important parts that were made in China. Lenovo was a major OEM maker for IBM long before their taking over the IBM PC department. Check other brands that you are considering to buy as well. There is high chance that they are made in China as well. I would suggest you only use pen and paper in order to avoid Chinese product. Oh, wait, they could be made in China as well.
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Microsoft's Equation Editor isn't even worth mentioning
Why the equation editor is not even worth mentioning? The one comes with Office 2007 is pretty good. Some of my friends are more likely to use Word instead of exclusively Latex because of it.
MS bashing aside, they don't have to make sure the new OS run on the low-end hardware at the beginning of each release cycle, before the netbook thing took off and CPU has to be multicore to keep improving. In the good old days, developer don't need to worry about the lower end of the hardware during planning. The OS release is rather a long development cycle (at least for Windows), 3-4 years. When the new release comes out, the high-end machines during planning phase are already the lower end. Companies will upgrade the hardware anyway, perfect fit for the new release.
Things are different now, as the single CPU is not any faster and it is even slower (netbooks), such the development assumption also changed. I don't see anything wrong with whole thing.
It has been discussed in that thread. That patent was actually a valid one. It is about a clever way to hint the content without fully loading the document. That summary was a troll and paint the whole thing differently. It was not as general as this one under discussion.
since many years ago. Their PC lines are the most crippled PC products I have ever seen. They often use some strange/closed hardware that nowhere to find open source driver. And now this. Toshiba is not much better. Lenovo/IBM usually much better than them anyway. I would rather even stay with DELL if I have to.
Yup, I second that. I've used Vista and 2008 server, and the volume control is the ONLY improvement.
Then you guys are not paying to much attention the features. My favorite feature is the new video stack, which got further improvements in Win7. The video memory is now virtualized, just like what people have been doing to the main memory. No more fighting for video memories between two directx applications. You don't even have to reboot after installing the video driver. Aren't that an important improvement to server especially? Also the UAC IS an improvement over XP/2003, which makes running as lower privileged user much less painful. For server 2008, hyper-v is the most important improvement over virtual-server, let alone new IIS and terminal server improvements. Talking about volume control is the ONLY improvement!? And that is not possible in XP, which requires the new sound stack.
How do you know not because of your small sample size happen to fall into those didn't break? A small number of "not happening" does not disapprove "some thing can happen". That is basic logic.
Microsoft natural multimedia keyboard
http://www.microsoft.com/products/info/product.aspx?view=22&pcid=e4eef44d-ef98-44d2-9451-abc336a4ec1b&type=ovr
Optical desktop 1000
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=058
Laser desktop 4000
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=094
They all have the said delete key change and separation of ESC key. But people have been complaining about the change of delete key though.
actually, the grandparent says some facts. believe or not, here is a huge and growing middle class in China, especially in large cities. In large cities like Beijing and Shanghai, the average income is about $300/month, if not higher (but with common goods much cheaper than here). And stores like starbucks is very popular there, who sells coffee at the same price as in US, if not higher. I am not saying that there is absolutely no people earn $10/month in factories, but the inflation in China and devalue of dollar here the same time, it will be very hard to find a wage at that level. China is not in Africa, after all.
IIRC, both exchange and SharedPoint's protocol document has been release recently. More OOS apps on Windows may appear in next one year or two. ref: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc216513.aspx
It is new in SP3. Here is the release note: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=60807c3a-8969-4ddf-beb2-8bfac9ed416b&DisplayLang=en It is not secret and don't to be "leaked" at all.
ask OSI people
From what I know, not many. Most of the time is "the code". luckily, the code quality is generally pretty good, except for those very old C programs.
FYI, open office 2.4 can read OOXML files as it is in MS office 2007. I expect the implementation will be better in near future. And you can unzip the file and edit using text editors if everything else fails. After all, it is XML. I wonder how will you feel when you come back in 1 or 2 years to read what you just wrote.
It is amazing to read "standard" and "closed, propriety format" in one sentence. Are you sure you know what are you talking about? I assume when it is a "standard", everyone can read it and implement it ( let alone how complete the implementation is ), that is not "closed, propriety format". And where did you hear IBM is banned by EPA because of fighting MS? I really want to know your reference.
I am tied of these BS. You'd better read more before "shame on" others. http://thetruthoftibet.blogspot.com/ http://newschecker.blogspot.com/2007/10/dalai-lama-hero-in-western-world.html I am not saying old Tibet was all bad. And myself is a supporter of Buddhism. Personally, I am very respectful to Dalai Lama as a religion leader. But come on, history is history. At that old time it was closer to hell for most of the population then heaven.
If I have mod points, I would mod this one informative. oh well, it is slashdot, nobody cares about facts.
right, must be evil Microsoft. Let's what else can people figure out on slashdot.
right, they will be so scared.
I call that is Bullshit Do all the different hardware manufactured in the past 15 years are all magically disappeared and Vista does not support any of them? Does each of those manufactures have only single products? How many versions does each product have and how many different bugs are there? I don't see the world has been much simpler than 10-15 years ago.
The following quote supports the parent's point The most notable difference between SOM and COM is support for inheritance -- COM does not have any. It might seem odd that Microsoft produced an object library system that could not support one of the most fundamental concepts of OO programming, but they did have their reasons. The main issue is that it is difficult to know where a base class exists in a system where libraries are loaded in potentially random order. COM demands that the programmer specify the exact base class at compile time, making it impossible to insert other derived classes in the middle (at least in other COM libraries).
SOM instead uses a simple algorithm, looking for potential base classes by following the inheritance tree and stopping at the first one that matches; this is the basic idea behind inheritance in most cases. The downside to this approach is that it is possible that new versions of this base class may no longer work even if the API remains the same. This possibility exists in any program, not only those using a shared library, but problem can become very difficult to track down if it exists in someone else's code. In SOM only solution is extensive testing of new versions of libraries, which is not always easy.
mod parent up. that is right on the point.
Check your T22, I bet there are important parts that were made in China. Lenovo was a major OEM maker for IBM long before their taking over the IBM PC department. Check other brands that you are considering to buy as well. There is high chance that they are made in China as well. I would suggest you only use pen and paper in order to avoid Chinese product. Oh, wait, they could be made in China as well.