Thid party hacks to restore core functionality lost in a paid upgrade is not a solution that will fly with many people. Fact is: Windows XP is "good enough" to do the things that the vast majority of business users want. Even Windows 98 was, if we're honest. Forcing them to pay to upgrade, then lose functionality and be forced to install third party software that either has no/limited support (freeware) or they do not have a vendor account with (payware) and may be crippled/broken at any time by Microsoft in a service pack is just NOT a solution.
Exactly. If your shiny new GUI has forced people into using keyboard shortcuts because the new way of doing things is such a clusterfuck compared to the old way, it is a failure.
Whilst i was a hater initially, it is sometimes useful if you are using a trackpad from full-screen and can't be bothered hitting spotlight and typing.
Windows 7 allows you to do the same thing WHILE HAVING SOMETHING ELSE ON SCREEN (like for example, maybe the documentation you are reading from or whatever).
Microsoft's "argument has been defeated" by the defeaning lack of demand for Windows 8. The fact that for example, HP advertise Windows 7 as a feature on current systems should be the writing on the wall.
The Linux desktop is good enoguh. The lack of MS office is the problem. And don't make me laugh by suggesting OpenOffice or LibreOffice, because although they're reasonable in their own right, they don't work 100% with everybody's existing document library.
The touch interface isn't usable in 8 either, unless all you do with your computer is play with the metro applets. For doing real work with real programs (which are all NOT metro) you're fucked as the widgets are too small, and you CAN'T ZOOM.
Well said. However Windows 8 isn't about giving us what we want. It's about making Windows on mobile devices relevant. The mobile market is the big one moving forward and microsoft was doing whatever they can to get a foot in the door. If that means pissing off their desktop users, then so be it. It's a joke.
Given that the only solar system we have even partially explored has at least one potentially habitable planet, why is the constant assumption made that te vast majority of other systems are entirely uninhabitable? Are we really THAT arrogant to think our system is so unique? Based on the evidence in our sample size of one, surely the logical assumption would be that there are plenty of other similar systems?
We already have that with X11. Hello higher performance 3d rendering pipeline. Never know, maybe one day the free desktop will catch up to where NeXTSTEP was in 1988.
Point being: whinging that they aren't going to contribute back stuff that hasn't been released/finalized yet, when they actually have a history of doing so is a bit... FUD-ish. Sony can eat a whole pallet of dicks for the way they have treated their userbase in the past, but credit where credit is due - they have an easily verifiable history of contributing back.
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Thid party hacks to restore core functionality lost in a paid upgrade is not a solution that will fly with many people. Fact is: Windows XP is "good enough" to do the things that the vast majority of business users want. Even Windows 98 was, if we're honest. Forcing them to pay to upgrade, then lose functionality and be forced to install third party software that either has no/limited support (freeware) or they do not have a vendor account with (payware) and may be crippled/broken at any time by Microsoft in a service pack is just NOT a solution.
Exactly. If your shiny new GUI has forced people into using keyboard shortcuts because the new way of doing things is such a clusterfuck compared to the old way, it is a failure.
Whilst i was a hater initially, it is sometimes useful if you are using a trackpad from full-screen and can't be bothered hitting spotlight and typing.
No hierachy.
Windows 7 allows you to do the same thing WHILE HAVING SOMETHING ELSE ON SCREEN (like for example, maybe the documentation you are reading from or whatever).
Microsoft's "argument has been defeated" by the defeaning lack of demand for Windows 8. The fact that for example, HP advertise Windows 7 as a feature on current systems should be the writing on the wall.
Are they paying you to be a case study/whitepaper?
Because then Windows developers will just target desktop mode and Metro will remain irrelevant - killing Microsoft's mobile aspirations.
The Linux desktop is good enoguh. The lack of MS office is the problem. And don't make me laugh by suggesting OpenOffice or LibreOffice, because although they're reasonable in their own right, they don't work 100% with everybody's existing document library.
The touch interface isn't usable in 8 either, unless all you do with your computer is play with the metro applets. For doing real work with real programs (which are all NOT metro) you're fucked as the widgets are too small, and you CAN'T ZOOM.
Well said. However Windows 8 isn't about giving us what we want. It's about making Windows on mobile devices relevant. The mobile market is the big one moving forward and microsoft was doing whatever they can to get a foot in the door. If that means pissing off their desktop users, then so be it. It's a joke.
That. I'm going to be forced into 8.1 to support Windows server stuff eventually, but I'm not going to like it.
it's the start SCREEN that pisses me off, not the lack of a button.
Given that the only solar system we have even partially explored has at least one potentially habitable planet, why is the constant assumption made that te vast majority of other systems are entirely uninhabitable? Are we really THAT arrogant to think our system is so unique? Based on the evidence in our sample size of one, surely the logical assumption would be that there are plenty of other similar systems?
There are plenty there, just not included in the base OS. Unless you count the command line.
Because i used a different word to "whining". English. Do you speak it?
Except certificate changes happen legitimately as well....
We already have that with X11. Hello higher performance 3d rendering pipeline. Never know, maybe one day the free desktop will catch up to where NeXTSTEP was in 1988.
Point being: whinging that they aren't going to contribute back stuff that hasn't been released/finalized yet, when they actually have a history of doing so is a bit ... FUD-ish. Sony can eat a whole pallet of dicks for the way they have treated their userbase in the past, but credit where credit is due - they have an easily verifiable history of contributing back.
Idea has merit. If a trusted CA is on the NSA payroll / end of lead pipe, you're fucked.
CA receives cert request from US government for [ORG].
CA complies, and sets up a nice shiny new cert for US.gov using the supplied private key. CA trusts this.
Your browser trusts the CA.
Bingo, you're MITM'd.
Trusting a big CA that may be on the NSA payroll = worse than self signed in some ways...
Sure. It is not competing in the personal computer space, and is going to get stomped all over by intel in terms of power:watt in short order.
Because no ARM consumer hardware exists for someone to run a hackintosh on...
Seriously? Apple aren't moving OS X to ARM any time soon.
Also, OS X is based on NextStep which was BSD at its core from way before Linux even existed.