Changing the screen mode 3/4 of the way down each screen refresh. Programming while counting every clock cycle - fantastic.
I still wonder where all the resources are wasted in current software.
I still say FRAK! when the need arises. Nobody knows what I'm talking about:(
Just listened to bbc.co.uk video on windows7 with some MS rep saying this is just a maintenance release where they simply listen to gripes about Vista user experience and fix them.
Well, I also listen to twit.tv Windows Weekly podcast with the famous Paul (Windows Supersite and Vista Secrets) Thurott). He is the biggest Microsoft fanboy you'll meet, and even he uses Firefox not IE7/8 , Terracopy and xyplorer instead of Windows Explorer and recommends Norton AC instead of the vista User Account Control.
Well if you take away file handling and user control and (with the move to "cloud computing") the browser, you wonder how much of the actual OS remains to be excited about. The rest is just bundled applications.
If MS do listen to and react to user gripes, I reckon Windows7 is gonna be a major rewrite.
That said however, Paul is at least honest and candid. I wouldn't trust myself (as a linux fanboy) to be objective and ever admit to Linux deficiencies. I like the guy, I just think he is misguided as Windows evolves.
If all they're doing is spreading out the payment over 3-4 years, with a small premium thrown in, that's not such a bad deal. Except that with the traditional model, you can continue to use your old and outdated software for ever at no further cost.
With this model, if you stop paying, you lose all the benefit of 4 years' payments.
I know for a fact that some of the major decision makers in the UK MoD (my little brother is one of them) know just enough about open source to be dangerous. He knows that the source code is fully in the open. He knows that the projects invariably are a sum of contributions from all over the planet by programmers who have never met each other... BUT until I put him straight, he seriously believed that open source projects - even the major ones like the linux kernel itself - where contributed to in a free-for-all wiki arrangement with no overseer at all.
This is a misconception that is often completely overlooked and contributes massively to the lack of trust in open source in secure environments.
I'm no big fan of MS either and I just find the whole thing rather funny.
1. Vista comes out and suddenly they are talking about Windows Vienna. Hoping to screw money out of the "Oh my, I haven't even bought Vista yet and Vienna's on its way" people.
2. XP is then set to end-of-life at the start of 2008. Hoping to screw money out of folks by forcing them to "upgrade".
3. Microsoft realise Vista isn't doing well so then comes "We're sorry, we let you down with XP". Hoping to screw money out of folks who think "well if they are big enough to admit their mistakes, I'll give them another chance".
4. Microsoft know that nobody wants vista so offer the option to downgrade to XP for Ultimate and Business users. Hoping to screw money out of people who are thinking about giving vista a try, but want the option to go back to what they know - oh but only if they have payed for the expensive versions of vista first.
5. Microsoft realise that even this is not convincing anybody so in an act of desperation extend XP by another six months. Hoping to screw money out of somebody - anybody - please pay us some money.
6. Microsoft ignore user wishes and force out a series of system file changes which break XP and is not easy to repair. OK even I don't believe that this last one is a ploy to force people to upgrade by breaking their current machine, not because I don't think microsoft would do it, but because they would not do it in such a clumsy manner.
Please feel free to add to this fascinating time-line following the last year's press releases.
Yeah, XP works, I use it at work, but when I've used Macs, a whole host of linux desktops and the amazing RiscOS desktop (still my favorite every despite being a real linux fanboy), I most definitely find XP the clumsiest least consistent desktop around. Heck - and Vista is worse? nah... Oh boy, somebody vote Microsoft out of office please.
OK perhaps the "screwing money out of people" phase is a little harsh, they are a business, but they lost my sympathy many years ago.
Proof of evolution (very useful in rabbits for example), while at the same time proving that the Intelligent Creator of this ticking timebomb of infection wasn't that intelligent.
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Changing the screen mode 3/4 of the way down each screen refresh. Programming while counting every clock cycle - fantastic. I still wonder where all the resources are wasted in current software. I still say FRAK! when the need arises. Nobody knows what I'm talking about :(
Just listened to bbc.co.uk video on windows7 with some MS rep saying this is just a maintenance release where they simply listen to gripes about Vista user experience and fix them. Well, I also listen to twit.tv Windows Weekly podcast with the famous Paul (Windows Supersite and Vista Secrets) Thurott). He is the biggest Microsoft fanboy you'll meet, and even he uses Firefox not IE7/8 , Terracopy and xyplorer instead of Windows Explorer and recommends Norton AC instead of the vista User Account Control. Well if you take away file handling and user control and (with the move to "cloud computing") the browser, you wonder how much of the actual OS remains to be excited about. The rest is just bundled applications. If MS do listen to and react to user gripes, I reckon Windows7 is gonna be a major rewrite. That said however, Paul is at least honest and candid. I wouldn't trust myself (as a linux fanboy) to be objective and ever admit to Linux deficiencies. I like the guy, I just think he is misguided as Windows evolves.
With this model, if you stop paying, you lose all the benefit of 4 years' payments.
I know for a fact that some of the major decision makers in the UK MoD (my little brother is one of them) know just enough about open source to be dangerous.
He knows that the source code is fully in the open. He knows that the projects invariably are a sum of contributions from all over the planet by programmers who have never met each other...
BUT
until I put him straight, he seriously believed that open source projects - even the major ones like the linux kernel itself - where contributed to in a free-for-all wiki arrangement with no overseer at all.
This is a misconception that is often completely overlooked and contributes massively to the lack of trust in open source in secure environments.
I'm no big fan of MS either and I just find the whole thing rather funny.
Please feel free to add to this fascinating time-line following the last year's press releases.
Yeah, XP works, I use it at work, but when I've used Macs, a whole host of linux desktops and the amazing RiscOS desktop (still my favorite every despite being a real linux fanboy), I most definitely find XP the clumsiest least consistent desktop around. Heck - and Vista is worse? nah... Oh boy, somebody vote Microsoft out of office please.
OK perhaps the "screwing money out of people" phase is a little harsh, they are a business, but they lost my sympathy many years ago.Forget the prostate, what about the appendix?
Proof of evolution (very useful in rabbits for example), while at the same time proving that the Intelligent Creator of this ticking timebomb of infection wasn't that intelligent.