am i expected to really believe this is an "honest change of heart"?
seems pretty obvious that you guys just decided to go this route due to the disaggreement with microsoft, and your lawyers have advised you to take this measure.
which is perfectly fine, but jeez, you rank on folks for doing this kind of jazz all the time.
hey...i'd just like to point out to all the people that complain about carma whores and biased moderation that THIS POST was a prime example of why slashdot still works pretty well as a fair forum, provided the posters make a logical argument and don't just scream and shout.
frankly i'm glad only hemos can win. until i read the fine print i had horrific visions of rob dumping him off in a tight little leather number at one of our houses and speeding off in his bright red malda roadster singing "born free"
assuming microsoft returned to "normal" versioning and next year released windows 4.01, how would this aid in the confusion you mentioned above?
if a user has windows 4.01, office 7.2 and internet explorer 8.5, and they all have splash screens with the version numbers, what version of windows are they running; 4.01? or is it 7.2, etc?
i think the problem here is definitely the end user. going on the crazy old car metaphor i may not be able to fix an engine, but i can probably tell you the difference between an engine and a hubcap. knowing the difference between "this is an operating system, this is an application" isn't too gigundous of a concept that anyone shouldn't realize it. my parents who've been computing for all of two months understand this, so i don't envision it far out of reach for mostpeople.
the mistake on microsoft's part seems a bit more simplistic to me: just put a button on the start menu or the desktop called "about windows" much the same as they do on macs.
i don't particularly know if windows will stick with years anymore. after all, we now have stuff like windows-millenium and winCE / "windows powered" i for one suspect they'll name it something like "windows2" and pitch it as sort of a 'sequel' to all the older windows versions.
or perhaps they'll follow their "intel inside" marketing ploy and simply go with the "windows powered" theme all across the board.
but as for browsers it does raise an interesting point...mozilla brought netscape's numbers down, but ie has jumped almost to version 6 in under 5 years, meaning that by the time i'm 43 in 2020 my kids might be trying out internetexplorer-29?
perhaps not the easiest way, but certainly a good marketing move might be for companies to pick naming conventions for products similar to servers. windows red, windows blue (*smirk*) ,or jtk-lightroast, jtk-darkroast, etc.
hey, considering the car metaphor gets thrown around here so often, it's so ridiculous it just might work. then again, microsoft seems to like appending "explorer" to everything, so perhaps we'll see stuff like "windows explorer explorer 01 explorer" by next year.
well here's the deal.. i'm a web designer here in boston who just recently purchased a digital camera. i've already been taking pictures since early this morning, and wanted to publish some visual and commentary of the second techiest city for our pals here at slashdot to see...but my website, graphicsdesign.org, is still down due to the cihost issue.
if anyone has a meg or two of web space and would be interested in seeing something like this on the web, i'd be happy to post to you as i go along. else, i will try and get one of those yucky free accounts at geocities or someplace and post a followup when i've completed the project, though i thought it would be interesting for people to see it in increments.
hey, this is a score 5 if i've ever seen one. this is exactly what i hoped to see in this article when i clicked on it. please at least consider moderating jazzman's comment up.
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am i expected to really believe this is an
"honest change of heart"?
seems pretty obvious that you guys
just decided to go this route due to the
disaggreement with microsoft, and your
lawyers have advised you to take this
measure.
which is perfectly fine, but jeez,
you rank on folks for doing this
kind of jazz all the time.
hey...i'd just like to point out to all the people that complain about carma whores and biased moderation that THIS POST was a prime
example of why slashdot still works pretty well as a fair forum, provided the posters make a logical argument and don't just scream and shout.
.02
yayy at least someone loves me.
oh wait i just threw away all the karma i don't
have for not posting this comment anonymously.
well shucks darn, there goes my shot at
a free toaster.
frankly i'm glad only hemos can win.
until i read the fine print i had
horrific visions of rob dumping him
off in a tight little leather number
at one of our houses and speeding
off in his bright red malda roadster
singing "born free"
*shudder*
assuming microsoft returned to "normal" versioning
and next year released windows 4.01, how would this aid in the confusion you mentioned above?
if a user has windows 4.01, office 7.2 and internet explorer 8.5, and they all have splash screens with the version numbers, what version of windows are they running; 4.01? or is it 7.2, etc?
i think the problem here is definitely the end user. going on the crazy old car metaphor i may not be able to fix an engine, but i can probably tell you the difference between an engine and a hubcap. knowing the difference between "this is an operating system, this is an application" isn't too gigundous of a concept that anyone shouldn't realize it. my parents who've been computing for all of two months understand this, so i don't envision it far out of reach for mostpeople.
the mistake on microsoft's part seems a bit more simplistic to me: just put a button on the start menu or the desktop called "about windows" much the same as they do on macs.
i don't particularly know if windows will stick with years anymore.
after all, we now have stuff like windows-millenium and
winCE / "windows powered"
i for one suspect they'll name it something
like "windows2" and pitch it as sort of a
'sequel' to all the older windows versions.
or perhaps they'll follow their "intel inside"
marketing ploy and simply go with the "windows
powered" theme all across the board.
but as for browsers it does raise an interesting
point...mozilla brought netscape's numbers down,
but ie has jumped almost to version 6 in under 5
years, meaning that by the time i'm 43 in 2020
my kids might be trying out internetexplorer-29?
perhaps not the easiest way, but certainly a good
marketing move
might be for companies to pick naming conventions
for products similar to servers.
windows red, windows blue (*smirk*)
,or jtk-lightroast, jtk-darkroast, etc.
hey, considering the car metaphor gets thrown
around here so often, it's so ridiculous it just
might work.
then again, microsoft seems to like
appending "explorer" to everything,
so perhaps we'll see stuff like
"windows explorer explorer 01 explorer" by next year.
well here's the deal.. i'm a web designer
here in boston who just recently purchased
a digital camera. i've already been taking
pictures since early this morning, and wanted
to publish some visual and commentary of the
second techiest city for our pals here at
slashdot to see...but my website,
graphicsdesign.org, is still down due to the cihost issue.
if anyone has a meg or two of web space and
would be interested in seeing something like
this on the web, i'd be happy to post to
you as i go along.
else, i will try and get one of those
yucky free accounts at geocities or someplace
and post a followup when i've completed
the project, though i thought it would
be interesting for people to see it in
increments.
thanks in advance;
adam
www.graphicsdesign.org
hey, this is a score 5 if i've ever seen one. this is exactly what i hoped to see in this article when i clicked on it. please at least consider moderating jazzman's comment up.