I fired it up, downloaded a few songs, listened to them, noticed they were low-quality WMA files, and then uninstalled Ruckus and replaced it with Limewire.
I'm looking at buying a new computer. It's a danger to Microsoft that I can just pick any old Dell and have Ubuntu working its magic in an hour or less, and not deal with their Vista/7 nonsense. No wonder they're worried!
Ubuntu does marketing AT ALL? They have their whole "brown" thing going on, but other than the smiling happy people on the Ship-It cover (which were picked to match the Ubuntu logo colors) they aren't really trying. Yet.
I agree. Every few years Microsoft was able to up the ante of the hardware requirements: XP needed more computer than 98, 98 needed more than MS-DOS, etc. But they tried the same strategy with Vista, and it failed. They've run out of ways to make their users upgrade, aside from a few UI polishes that really only the MS fans care about (and DirectX 10, of course). Rather than upgrade to Vista or 7 to get some new features and improvements, people move to Linux for free rather than suffer through the purchase of a new computer. Microsoft is worried that if people have an alternative for XP they won't buy a new computer; hence, they won't be buying Windows 7 or Word or whatever.
The box comes with support. If you want that boxed product to show off to the disbelievers, either buy that or ask for a Ship-It Ubuntu disc, which are looking very nice in their newer formats.
Exactly. If you're talking 2% of the desktop market, that's two machines per every hundred. If the desktop market is a billion users, Linux gets twenty million. That's a lot of people Microsoft wants on their side.
They wouldn't be attacked by the EU if they would allow the user to remove the stuff they install. Ever tried removing IE7? That's why the EU is going after MS.
They discounted their own benchmark, stating at the bottom that it wasn't really all that serious and that it was just a small, brief look at how Windows and Ubuntu have become nearly equal in their weaknesses and strengths.
But, then, when you pick the wrong version of Linux, you're out a, what, 10-cent DVD or CD? Pick the wrong version of Windows and you're out a good hundred bucks. Besides, it's not like Ubuntu is only Fedora with stuff turned off; they all have their pros and cons. You can't say that about "Win7 Starter Edition," which is made solely to make people spend more money because it was gimped to begin with.
What hardware are you using Vista on? List anything over 2GB RAM and your comment is invalid. That's the whole point: it may run fine on the computers of today, but it didn't run so well on the computers of yesterday, which is what everyone was complaining about.
Vista was not a rewrite. What, other than UI changes, have actually changed the way you used your computer? Oh, that's right. None. They navigate your folders a little differently, sure, but that's Service Pack stuff. They have to change the way it looks, or else they wouldn't make money off of the people who don't know any better. Look and feel doesn't necessarily mean better, anyhow. And it's running better, yeah, that should have been the case in Vista to begin with. MS should have known better in 2006 than to make an OS that computers two years in the future would still have issues running well. Win7 is MS pulling their heads out of their rears, but unfortunately they're forcing the consumers to pay for their idiotic mistakes.
They can't really put any DX10 WHOA games out there because there aren't enough consumers for it yet. They can include extras like Company of Heroes did with their DX10 patch, but they can't introduce any new gameplay mechanics. The game would be dependent on Vista and everyone's still gaming on XP (and even MS realized this with their POS Halo 2 port).
"Then install XP and see for yourself that 7 really is a worthwhile upgrade from it"
I didn't. I installed it, and yeah, it ran about as well as XP without any really worthy new features. Care to explain exactly why I should pay $100 plus for this, now? Nothing on that Wikipedia page really is worth $100 to me or anyone else in my house, so I fail to see where this is going.
I had an nVidia driver for Vista not work so well in Win7 (screen flickering and such). It's foolish to think there will be NO regressions at all. This is MS we're talking about, here.
People like cheap computers. I think that's the message here, and it's kind of bizarre no one's tapped into this yet. We're seeing profit because of it, though, and it's going somewhere. People don't need Vista and four gigs of RAM; give them Ubuntu and a cheap $200 machine and they're set. (Now it's just a matter of educating the Ubuntu noobs...where's that built-in tutorial mode, Canotical?)
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There was a collective groan on the internet the minute this was modded "Funny."
But Craftsman isn't a monopoly, now is it?
I fired it up, downloaded a few songs, listened to them, noticed they were low-quality WMA files, and then uninstalled Ruckus and replaced it with Limewire.
Pity. Nice concept, bad execution.
I'm looking at buying a new computer. It's a danger to Microsoft that I can just pick any old Dell and have Ubuntu working its magic in an hour or less, and not deal with their Vista/7 nonsense. No wonder they're worried!
I'd say "You must be new here" but then someone would just post the same line behind me for making such a lame joke.
1% is a lot when you're talking about a billion people, or possibly more.
Ubuntu does marketing AT ALL? They have their whole "brown" thing going on, but other than the smiling happy people on the Ship-It cover (which were picked to match the Ubuntu logo colors) they aren't really trying. Yet.
I agree. Every few years Microsoft was able to up the ante of the hardware requirements: XP needed more computer than 98, 98 needed more than MS-DOS, etc. But they tried the same strategy with Vista, and it failed. They've run out of ways to make their users upgrade, aside from a few UI polishes that really only the MS fans care about (and DirectX 10, of course). Rather than upgrade to Vista or 7 to get some new features and improvements, people move to Linux for free rather than suffer through the purchase of a new computer. Microsoft is worried that if people have an alternative for XP they won't buy a new computer; hence, they won't be buying Windows 7 or Word or whatever.
The box comes with support. If you want that boxed product to show off to the disbelievers, either buy that or ask for a Ship-It Ubuntu disc, which are looking very nice in their newer formats.
Exactly. If you're talking 2% of the desktop market, that's two machines per every hundred. If the desktop market is a billion users, Linux gets twenty million. That's a lot of people Microsoft wants on their side.
They wouldn't be attacked by the EU if they would allow the user to remove the stuff they install. Ever tried removing IE7? That's why the EU is going after MS.
They discounted their own benchmark, stating at the bottom that it wasn't really all that serious and that it was just a small, brief look at how Windows and Ubuntu have become nearly equal in their weaknesses and strengths.
Market share != people using the OS. Never did, never will.
"The only missing part is the free-for-all publishing system of YouTube" Ever heard of Jamendo?
No, you still have the gray stuff. I did that as well, and I did it in Win7 beta, too.
See it's stuff like that that really shows you why women simply aren't ready for the desktop.
I heard Financial Crisis and said, "Oh, so they made another Final Fantasy VII spinoff?"
But, then, when you pick the wrong version of Linux, you're out a, what, 10-cent DVD or CD? Pick the wrong version of Windows and you're out a good hundred bucks. Besides, it's not like Ubuntu is only Fedora with stuff turned off; they all have their pros and cons. You can't say that about "Win7 Starter Edition," which is made solely to make people spend more money because it was gimped to begin with.
GlaDOS and SHODAN?
What hardware are you using Vista on? List anything over 2GB RAM and your comment is invalid. That's the whole point: it may run fine on the computers of today, but it didn't run so well on the computers of yesterday, which is what everyone was complaining about.
Vista was not a rewrite. What, other than UI changes, have actually changed the way you used your computer? Oh, that's right. None. They navigate your folders a little differently, sure, but that's Service Pack stuff. They have to change the way it looks, or else they wouldn't make money off of the people who don't know any better. Look and feel doesn't necessarily mean better, anyhow. And it's running better, yeah, that should have been the case in Vista to begin with. MS should have known better in 2006 than to make an OS that computers two years in the future would still have issues running well. Win7 is MS pulling their heads out of their rears, but unfortunately they're forcing the consumers to pay for their idiotic mistakes.
They can't really put any DX10 WHOA games out there because there aren't enough consumers for it yet. They can include extras like Company of Heroes did with their DX10 patch, but they can't introduce any new gameplay mechanics. The game would be dependent on Vista and everyone's still gaming on XP (and even MS realized this with their POS Halo 2 port).
"Then install XP and see for yourself that 7 really is a worthwhile upgrade from it" I didn't. I installed it, and yeah, it ran about as well as XP without any really worthy new features. Care to explain exactly why I should pay $100 plus for this, now? Nothing on that Wikipedia page really is worth $100 to me or anyone else in my house, so I fail to see where this is going.
I had an nVidia driver for Vista not work so well in Win7 (screen flickering and such). It's foolish to think there will be NO regressions at all. This is MS we're talking about, here.
People like cheap computers. I think that's the message here, and it's kind of bizarre no one's tapped into this yet. We're seeing profit because of it, though, and it's going somewhere. People don't need Vista and four gigs of RAM; give them Ubuntu and a cheap $200 machine and they're set. (Now it's just a matter of educating the Ubuntu noobs...where's that built-in tutorial mode, Canotical?)