I think some media has woken up. Not enough... the really mainstream media is still the same, "The new Vista is here, and Bill Gates says it's awesome." Main newspapers and TV stories I've seen (at least in australia) are not doing journalism, they're just rephrasing MS marketing material as a news item. It shits me.
Did you ever see the iraq coverage on mainstream media and asked the same question? Journalism died a long time ago. Good morning, hope you slept well.
Suppose you are managing an W2k3 IIS based intranet with lets say 10-15K people using it. Its ASP.NET based and sometimes (defined as once a month), the site goes down. Random ASP.NET errors (I will skip that detail). Restarting IIS does not make a difference not does restarting ASP.NET or other related services. You restart the machine. Great it works now.
Now what do you do the next time it happens? You restart immediately. Get things back ONLINE. Now you worry about the logs, events debug and try to find/fix the root problem. But you SHOULD immediately restart to get things back online ASAP before calls start coming in from all over the place. You can now try and reproduce the error in the lab etc.
Now this is a real situation I was dealing with at my last job. When a server is down, its more important to get it back online ASAP than to find the real problem while keeping it down. In Windows world, sometimes it means just restarting the box.
Most people who have ONLY ever used Windows don't care about these arguments and usually don't participate. So most of the arguments in favour of Windows will be from those who have used/seen OSX or Linux or both of them.
The other interesting thing is that alot of the Linux crowd have not actually used Windows. By using I mean being a Power User. Sure they have seen it as its almost inevitable but just seeing it and using Internet/Word does not qualify you to make a statement about the overall usability/maintainance of the OS. Or even installing Windows once or twice for your Wife/Family is not going to give you the exposure needed to comment on the topic."I KNOW there are better OSes because I have actually used them". No. You cannot (subjectively) compare two OS unless you have used them to the same (almost) level.
Only Power Users on both Windows/Linux can really compare them and such users are few. You can't ask average joe (sometimes called dumb users) to compare the two because they simply don't exist on the Linux platform. In Linux you are either a Power User or learning to be one, else you don't/can't run Linux. Even the newer friendlier distros like Ubuntu are far from the average joe.
We have hundreds of launchers, shortcut tools, global shortcut, batch tasks etc. tools for windows already out there. How is this news? Another promotion story.
Stay tuned while we next tell you about the amazing tool for your desktop that displays weather!
Mod parent funny but insightful? Pretty sure all the people modding that have never tried installing a printer on Windows. If something that really sucked was installing Modems in Windows 98 days. Windows may suck but I am yet to see a printer not working with Windows specially with the versions that came after Windows ME.
This is interesting component naming by Microsoft. You can install Outlook 2007 without installing Word 2007 (same for previous versions). This means the rendering engine is a shared Office suite component and not a Word 2007 feature just like other shared components such as Office Web Components (OWC). It is probably used the *most* by Word but (one can assume) it would also be used in Excel and Powerpoint etc.
probably why it was never deemed important enough to implement the store-your-bookmarks-on-an-FTP which has been discussed for so long
You are most likely referring to "Roaming Profiles" which has been implemented in Mozilla SeaMonkey. It lets you store bookmarks and other things from the profile on remote servers. Few faithful followers still prefer the SeaMonkey suite over Firefox due to this and some other features which were not implemented in Firefox when they initially decided to focus on Firefox development. Firefox has mostly caught up though in terms of features due to extensions and updates since 1.0
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where did you get the figure of 28 years as the cut off for copyright? just honest question.
Site is showing: Our Pipes are clogged! We've called the plumbers!
One would assume that atleast Yahoo won't get Slashdotted...
I think some media has woken up. Not enough... the really mainstream media is still the same, "The new Vista is here, and Bill Gates says it's awesome." Main newspapers and TV stories I've seen (at least in australia) are not doing journalism, they're just rephrasing MS marketing material as a news item. It shits me.
Did you ever see the iraq coverage on mainstream media and asked the same question? Journalism died a long time ago. Good morning, hope you slept well.
Here is a story:
Suppose you are managing an W2k3 IIS based intranet with lets say 10-15K people using it. Its ASP.NET based and sometimes (defined as once a month), the site goes down. Random ASP.NET errors (I will skip that detail). Restarting IIS does not make a difference not does restarting ASP.NET or other related services. You restart the machine. Great it works now.
Now what do you do the next time it happens? You restart immediately. Get things back ONLINE. Now you worry about the logs, events debug and try to find/fix the root problem. But you SHOULD immediately restart to get things back online ASAP before calls start coming in from all over the place. You can now try and reproduce the error in the lab etc.
Now this is a real situation I was dealing with at my last job. When a server is down, its more important to get it back online ASAP than to find the real problem while keeping it down. In Windows world, sometimes it means just restarting the box.
err.. meant objectively
Other news: Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!
Most people who have ONLY ever used Windows don't care about these arguments and usually don't participate. So most of the arguments in favour of Windows will be from those who have used/seen OSX or Linux or both of them.
The other interesting thing is that alot of the Linux crowd have not actually used Windows. By using I mean being a Power User. Sure they have seen it as its almost inevitable but just seeing it and using Internet/Word does not qualify you to make a statement about the overall usability/maintainance of the OS. Or even installing Windows once or twice for your Wife/Family is not going to give you the exposure needed to comment on the topic."I KNOW there are better OSes because I have actually used them". No. You cannot (subjectively) compare two OS unless you have used them to the same (almost) level.
Only Power Users on both Windows/Linux can really compare them and such users are few. You can't ask average joe (sometimes called dumb users) to compare the two because they simply don't exist on the Linux platform. In Linux you are either a Power User or learning to be one, else you don't/can't run Linux. Even the newer friendlier distros like Ubuntu are far from the average joe.
We have hundreds of launchers, shortcut tools, global shortcut, batch tasks etc. tools for windows already out there. How is this news? Another promotion story.
Stay tuned while we next tell you about the amazing tool for your desktop that displays weather!
Mod parent funny but insightful? Pretty sure all the people modding that have never tried installing a printer on Windows. If something that really sucked was installing Modems in Windows 98 days. Windows may suck but I am yet to see a printer not working with Windows specially with the versions that came after Windows ME.
This is interesting component naming by Microsoft. You can install Outlook 2007 without installing Word 2007 (same for previous versions). This means the rendering engine is a shared Office suite component and not a Word 2007 feature just like other shared components such as Office Web Components (OWC). It is probably used the *most* by Word but (one can assume) it would also be used in Excel and Powerpoint etc.
probably why it was never deemed important enough to implement the store-your-bookmarks-on-an-FTP which has been discussed for so long
You are most likely referring to "Roaming Profiles" which has been implemented in Mozilla SeaMonkey. It lets you store bookmarks and other things from the profile on remote servers. Few faithful followers still prefer the SeaMonkey suite over Firefox due to this and some other features which were not implemented in Firefox when they initially decided to focus on Firefox development. Firefox has mostly caught up though in terms of features due to extensions and updates since 1.0
In short if you don't want a 3rd party solution to storing your profile remotely, try SeaMonkey:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
To remove this from your machine.
Goto Start > Run and type:
regsvr32 -u lunchapp.ocx
(-u for uninstall)