I tried it on a low-end laptop with four Core 2 Duo chips and only 8 gig of memory, and trust me: $NEXT_VERSION is shaping up to be one heck of a product.
WordPad and Paint have seen major overhauls to their user interfaces. Forget the freetards and their "distros" full of all sorts of useless shovelware like "FireFox" and "OpenOffice" and, haha, "GIMP"! - the bundled software with Windows $NEXT_VERSION is clear, simple, sparse and to-the-point. The much-loved $HATED user interface from Office $CURRENT_VERSION is now part of WordPad and Paint!
The controversial Digital Rights Management system in Vista has been worked over, with user-downloadable "tilt bits," which you can configure to your own liking. It'll require every user to supply a blood sample for DNA analysis, and the beta nearly took my finger off, but of course that's only if you want to play premium content. The Blu-Ray(tm) of Battlefield Earth was unbelievable on this operating system.
A public beta should be released by the end of this year. There's just no way that Steve "Trains Run On Time" Ballmer will miss the Christmas deadline. The final release should leave the midnight queues on $CURRENT_VERSION release day - the street riots, the water cannons, the rubber bullets - in the shade.
I am so excited about $NEXT_VERSION of Windows. It will go beyond just solving all of the problems with $CURRENT_VERSION, it will be an entirely new paradigm. Forget about security problems, those are all fixed in $NEXT_VERSION. And they're finally ridding themselves of $ANCIENT_LEGACY_STUFF.
Also, there'll be $DATABASE_FILESYSTEM. It'll be awesome!
I wonder how $NEXT_VERSION will compare to $NEXT_NEXT_VERSION.
Ticklessness is very interesting to me, because it's why I get 3.5 hours' battery life in Linux on the same laptop that gets 2 hours booted into Windows.
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, 53, announced Monday he was being treated for a "hormone imbalance" but would remain head of the company.
"I find myself unable to give the Macworld keynote tomorrow," said Jobs, "but my truly spectacular rack will be well worth the hormonal rages. It's like six months of PMS, though my engineers will tell you there's hardly a difference."
The keynote, to be presented by Pamela Anderson and Jenna Jameson, is rumored to introduce the new iKini and iFront lingerie range, in signature translucent white, with eight gigabytes of music storage and 3G phone connectivity. "Left one for signal strength, right one for network."
Jobs noted that his decision not to give the Macworld keynote had set off a "flurry of rumors about my health, with some even publishing stories of me on my deathbed." To restore investor confidence, he has been fitted with a full set of cybernetic implants providing full live data on his bodily functions, broadcast in sideband data on the Disney Channel and downloadable daily on iTunes.
Bill Gates pooh-poohed the iFront range, offering his new Zunewear "Carrot" Macho Dude-Pants, which would make you look better "every day of the year" (except December 31st) and "show off your Ballmers like never before. DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! Iâ(TM)M A PEE-CEEEE!"
The news was carried in an obituary run by Bloomberg late last night, which was pulled when news of his resurrection came through.
"They don't call it the Jesus Phone for nothing," Jobs laughed with reporters, before eating their tasty, tasty brains.
Jobs' new cyborg arsenal includes wifi, 3G, laser cannons, a flame thrower and a can opener, all running on Mac OS X Robosteve. Bundled applications include an enhanced hypnotic force field based on the one he uses at MacWorld keynotes. "I can't wait to try it on Bill," he said.
Disney, in which Jobs is the single largest shareholder, remained unaffected. "Steve's just working with the way we do things here," said the disembodied computer-hosted soul of Walt Disney, who was decanted to a computer in 1966 to avoid being declared legally dead, so that copyright in his works would never, ever run out.
No-one ever gets training on new versions of Office.
FUDsters keep claiming "but what about the training costs" - there are no such training costs because there is no training. I would like evidence that such training is widespread and expected. I would like evidence that it's anything more than negligible. Statistics, please, not anecdotes.
This is true. The suits live in Outlook and Excel. Outlook's functionality has been a big fat steady target for ten years and there still hasn't been a usable free software replacement.
No-one ever gets training on new versions of Office.
I have worked for large corporations, I'm working for one now. The last time I got such training was 1997, when I was working for a computer training company.
FUDsters keep claiming "but what about the training costs" - there are no such training costs because there is no training. I would like evidence that such training is widespread and expected. I would like evidence that it's anything more than negligible. Statistics, please, not anecdotes.
In addition, it reads and writes the 97-2003.DOC format just fine.
No-one ever gets training on new versions of Office.
I have worked for large corporations, I'm working for one now. The last time I got such training was 1997, when I was working for a computer training company.
FUDsters keep claiming "but what about the training costs" - there are no such training costs because there is no training. I would like evidence that such training is widespread and expected. I would like evidence that it's anything more than negligible. Statistics, please, not anecdotes.
Microsoft Corporation is headed for swingeing layoffs in mid-January after the failure of its stock buyback program, and has called for a government bailout in the face of the credit crunch.
"Vastly popular operating systems like Vista just aren't selling," said marketing marketer emeritus Bill Gates, "and it's all because people aren't confident to spend their money. In fact, they didn't start buying it in 2007 because they were expecting this even then. A subsidy to buy good, honest American computer operating systems is essential to the health of the economy, or my part of it."
Should the Big One of American virtual office supplies fail, economists predict that it could free up millions of dollars in business spending and provide a devastating boost to an economy reeling from the impact of the credit crunch.
Hiring in most Microsoft divisions has frozen in the last six months and 30GB Zunes are already on suicide watch. "The workload's impossible to keep up with," said blog technical evangelist Gary M. Stewart. "I've even been answering Slashdot comments on Boycott Novell. It's impossible to keep track of! Anyway, you're just another Twitter sockpuppet. Or Mini-Microsoft. Admit it."
Additional bailouts have been hooked on the bill as riders for HD-DVD, eight-track cartridges, 78rpm gramophones and Babbage analytical engine gear manufacturers.
Senators have stated they will only bail the company out with a change in top management. "What the shit," said Linus Torvalds as his draft notice arrived.
WoW is one of the most popular apps for Wine. Why? Apparently because a lot of WoW users are worried that if they piss someone off their Windows b0x0r will get h@xx0r3d. This won't happen in Wine.
Microsoft can compete when they have to - compare the usability and polish of IE4 and IE5 to IE3.
Actually, what should be worrying them is that these days they're having difficulty competing even when they have to. Windows 7 is the size and speed of Vista. Not of XP.
They'll need to move fast to get stuff into the IE 8 cycle. A new superfast JavaScript engine is essential, for instance - IE 8 still sucks at that.
Personally I doubt they'll make it. It'd be interesting to be proven wrong, though.
No, it hasn't always been inferior. IE4 and IE5 were much better than the competition through 1998-2000, because Netscape 4 was a horribly unstable piece of crap and Mozilla was alpha-ware.
(I started doing bug-checking and crash-testing of Mozilla in mid-2000. By God it was a piece of shit. But it was important, and by early 2001 it was beta-quality, i.e. more usable than not. And by the end of 2001 it was clearly better.)
If Netscape 4 hadn't been so completely unstable and horrible, IE wouldn't have seen nearly the favour it did.
Not quite. NN5 was based on the original open-sourced bits of the NN4 code. It was all set for release then the project was canned. That's why the Netscape released from Mozilla code was numbered 6.
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By Mary-Jo Enderle
I have seen the future: Windows $NEXT_VERSION Beta $MOCKUP.
I tried it on a low-end laptop with four Core 2 Duo chips and only 8 gig of memory, and trust me: $NEXT_VERSION is shaping up to be one heck of a product.
WordPad and Paint have seen major overhauls to their user interfaces. Forget the freetards and their "distros" full of all sorts of useless shovelware like "FireFox" and "OpenOffice" and, haha, "GIMP"! - the bundled software with Windows $NEXT_VERSION is clear, simple, sparse and to-the-point. The much-loved $HATED user interface from Office $CURRENT_VERSION is now part of WordPad and Paint!
The controversial Digital Rights Management system in Vista has been worked over, with user-downloadable "tilt bits," which you can configure to your own liking. It'll require every user to supply a blood sample for DNA analysis, and the beta nearly took my finger off, but of course that's only if you want to play premium content. The Blu-Ray(tm) of Battlefield Earth was unbelievable on this operating system.
A public beta should be released by the end of this year. There's just no way that Steve "Trains Run On Time" Ballmer will miss the Christmas deadline. The final release should leave the midnight queues on $CURRENT_VERSION release day - the street riots, the water cannons, the rubber bullets - in the shade.
I am so excited about $NEXT_VERSION of Windows. It will go beyond just solving all of the problems with $CURRENT_VERSION, it will be an entirely new paradigm. Forget about security problems, those are all fixed in $NEXT_VERSION. And they're finally ridding themselves of $ANCIENT_LEGACY_STUFF.
Also, there'll be $DATABASE_FILESYSTEM. It'll be awesome!
I wonder how $NEXT_VERSION will compare to $NEXT_NEXT_VERSION.
The purpose of freedesktop.org is to solve 1., and a lot of stuff is now in fact working well between the two (and others).
Ticklessness is very interesting to me, because it's why I get 3.5 hours' battery life in Linux on the same laptop that gets 2 hours booted into Windows.
The answer is, of course, "so code it please kthx." Or buy Codeweaver Games and ask they get onto this one.
They have a little penguin running in a wheel.
You mean, all the stuff that doesn't have Vista/Windows 7 drivers and never will, but works in Linux?
If only Microsoft hadn't deliberately broken XP drivers in Vista ...
I used to get confused between my KDE 3.5 laptop and my Windows 2000 work desktop - "oh hold on, that isn't on this desktop ..."
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, 53, announced Monday he was being treated for a "hormone imbalance" but would remain head of the company.
"I find myself unable to give the Macworld keynote tomorrow," said Jobs, "but my truly spectacular rack will be well worth the hormonal rages. It's like six months of PMS, though my engineers will tell you there's hardly a difference."
The keynote, to be presented by Pamela Anderson and Jenna Jameson, is rumored to introduce the new iKini and iFront lingerie range, in signature translucent white, with eight gigabytes of music storage and 3G phone connectivity. "Left one for signal strength, right one for network."
Jobs noted that his decision not to give the Macworld keynote had set off a "flurry of rumors about my health, with some even publishing stories of me on my deathbed." To restore investor confidence, he has been fitted with a full set of cybernetic implants providing full live data on his bodily functions, broadcast in sideband data on the Disney Channel and downloadable daily on iTunes.
Bill Gates pooh-poohed the iFront range, offering his new Zunewear "Carrot" Macho Dude-Pants, which would make you look better "every day of the year" (except December 31st) and "show off your Ballmers like never before. DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! Iâ(TM)M A PEE-CEEEE!"
What could possibly go wrong?
Steve Jobs, visionary leader of Apple Computer, has died - and come back, better and stronger.
The news was carried in an obituary run by Bloomberg late last night, which was pulled when news of his resurrection came through.
"They don't call it the Jesus Phone for nothing," Jobs laughed with reporters, before eating their tasty, tasty brains.
Jobs' new cyborg arsenal includes wifi, 3G, laser cannons, a flame thrower and a can opener, all running on Mac OS X Robosteve. Bundled applications include an enhanced hypnotic force field based on the one he uses at MacWorld keynotes. "I can't wait to try it on Bill," he said.
Disney, in which Jobs is the single largest shareholder, remained unaffected. "Steve's just working with the way we do things here," said the disembodied computer-hosted soul of Walt Disney, who was decanted to a computer in 1966 to avoid being declared legally dead, so that copyright in his works would never, ever run out.
No-one ever gets training on new versions of Office.
FUDsters keep claiming "but what about the training costs" - there are no such training costs because there is no training. I would like evidence that such training is widespread and expected. I would like evidence that it's anything more than negligible. Statistics, please, not anecdotes.
This is true. The suits live in Outlook and Excel. Outlook's functionality has been a big fat steady target for ten years and there still hasn't been a usable free software replacement.
No-one ever gets training on new versions of Office.
I have worked for large corporations, I'm working for one now. The last time I got such training was 1997, when I was working for a computer training company.
FUDsters keep claiming "but what about the training costs" - there are no such training costs because there is no training. I would like evidence that such training is widespread and expected. I would like evidence that it's anything more than negligible. Statistics, please, not anecdotes.
In addition, it reads and writes the 97-2003 .DOC format just fine.
No-one ever gets training on new versions of Office.
I have worked for large corporations, I'm working for one now. The last time I got such training was 1997, when I was working for a computer training company.
FUDsters keep claiming "but what about the training costs" - there are no such training costs because there is no training. I would like evidence that such training is widespread and expected. I would like evidence that it's anything more than negligible. Statistics, please, not anecdotes.
Written up: Microsoft calls for government bailout
Microsoft Corporation is headed for swingeing layoffs in mid-January after the failure of its stock buyback program, and has called for a government bailout in the face of the credit crunch.
"Vastly popular operating systems like Vista just aren't selling," said marketing marketer emeritus Bill Gates, "and it's all because people aren't confident to spend their money. In fact, they didn't start buying it in 2007 because they were expecting this even then. A subsidy to buy good, honest American computer operating systems is essential to the health of the economy, or my part of it."
Should the Big One of American virtual office supplies fail, economists predict that it could free up millions of dollars in business spending and provide a devastating boost to an economy reeling from the impact of the credit crunch.
Hiring in most Microsoft divisions has frozen in the last six months and 30GB Zunes are already on suicide watch. "The workload's impossible to keep up with," said blog technical evangelist Gary M. Stewart. "I've even been answering Slashdot comments on Boycott Novell. It's impossible to keep track of! Anyway, you're just another Twitter sockpuppet. Or Mini-Microsoft. Admit it."
Additional bailouts have been hooked on the bill as riders for HD-DVD, eight-track cartridges, 78rpm gramophones and Babbage analytical engine gear manufacturers.
Senators have stated they will only bail the company out with a change in top management. "What the shit," said Linus Torvalds as his draft notice arrived.
"the WINE emulation of DirectX should be done directly and not through OpenGL"
This shows little to no understanding of how DirectX is done in Wine.
By the way: the Wine d3d layer is actually used by Parallels to do DirectX.
+6 insightful.
WoW is one of the most popular apps for Wine. Why? Apparently because a lot of WoW users are worried that if they piss someone off their Windows b0x0r will get h@xx0r3d. This won't happen in Wine.
I understood that it started as a fresh rewrite of Mosaic, though Marc Andreesen was heavily involved in both.
It was considerably less than great, yes ;-) However, they did have an NN5 ready to go and didn't release it.
Microsoft can compete when they have to - compare the usability and polish of IE4 and IE5 to IE3.
Actually, what should be worrying them is that these days they're having difficulty competing even when they have to. Windows 7 is the size and speed of Vista. Not of XP.
They'll need to move fast to get stuff into the IE 8 cycle. A new superfast JavaScript engine is essential, for instance - IE 8 still sucks at that.
Personally I doubt they'll make it. It'd be interesting to be proven wrong, though.
Windows 7! Rah rah rah! Maybe they can blow both their feet off.
No, it hasn't always been inferior. IE4 and IE5 were much better than the competition through 1998-2000, because Netscape 4 was a horribly unstable piece of crap and Mozilla was alpha-ware.
(I started doing bug-checking and crash-testing of Mozilla in mid-2000. By God it was a piece of shit. But it was important, and by early 2001 it was beta-quality, i.e. more usable than not. And by the end of 2001 it was clearly better.)
If Netscape 4 hadn't been so completely unstable and horrible, IE wouldn't have seen nearly the favour it did.
Not quite. NN5 was based on the original open-sourced bits of the NN4 code. It was all set for release then the project was canned. That's why the Netscape released from Mozilla code was numbered 6.