In Windows 95 it was the ability to lose weeks of work after defragmenting your hard drive. Yes that happened to me and I discovered Linux very soon after and it has never (so far after 12 years) eaten any of my data. Incidentally what did take weeks or months on Novell or Unix that took hours on Windows 95/NT?
The Application Developer Base has billions of lines of working code that they don't have the budget to rewrite in.NET. I look forward to the day when Microsoft try to dictate to their corporate customers and their corporate customers, just like they did with Vista, will say 'screw you we're not buying something that doesn't run our software'. XP Mode exists because, out in the real world, software can't just be rewritten on a whim or because Microsoft say it should be, and in fact should be on all versions of Windows 7, not just the really expensive ones.
Apple were in a totally different position. They had far fewer users and a lot less to lose by dropping legacy support.
IBM Mainframes still run software written 40 years ago. Why? Because businesses still depend on it and it still does what it's supposed to. That is the issue Microsoft faces and it's one, just like IBM before them, was brought about by their ill-gotten market ownership.
I remember IEF, later Cool:Gen, that took flowcharts and generated the most hideous and confusing COBOL code I've ever seen. And considering how many godawful COBOL systems I've worked on I was impressed and horrified at the same time.
A colleague of mine had an iPhone but as she's one of the clumsiest people on earth the flimsy poser toy couldn't keep up with her. The Blackberry she has now seems to be pretty much bulletproof. I don't get this "RIM are dead". I see more people with Blackberries here in the UK than with iPhones. Or is this just another 'they're not doing well in the US so they're dead' a la Nokia.
When people ask why my apps run on Windows and Linux but not Mac I always reply: Because Apple's DRM makes it illegal to use OSX on my hardware, neither Linux or Windows does. Apple would rather lock things down than let me compile my code on my hardware with their OS.
Not talking about you am I. Read up. As for EULA not trumping law have a read of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_license_agreement. Apart from anything else, even if the EULA isn't enforceable good luck taking on Apple in court.
The Commissioners are recommended by the elected governments of the member states and chosen by the elected European parliament. They are as 'undemocratic' as, for example, the head of the UK's civil service. If you are unhappy with the way the EU is run then I hope you have been voting for a candidate that will do something about it, and not just being like a lot of the people here in the UK who go on endlessly about the evils of the EU but can't be bothered to get off their backsides and go to a polling booth every few years.
It's illegal to run Mac OS X on anything but a Mac and I have no idea where Sony and Nintendo come into an argument about why someone doesn't want to pay for a Mac when they already have an Intel machine. There is no good technical reason why Mac OS X can't run on any modern PC but that is restricted by Apple and requires you to break the law to get it to work. That's okay for an individual I suppose but anyone running a business should be very wary of using illegal software.
Same here in the UK. Blackberries seem to be in the phones of the young and trendy (i.e. not me;-)). I see plenty of cool kids with them and very few with iPhones. The iPhones seem to be in the hands of rich students or middle-aged people who wish they were still cool.
Deckchairs are much easier to throw than office chairs too. Can someone please explain to me why, with all the creative talent in the world now, there isn't either a flying chairs screensaver, or a version of Donkey Kong with Steve Ballmer throwing down chairs instead of barrels or both? At the very least the Billborg icon should now be a mobile chair.
No. But in those days manufacturing was very dangerous and paid very badly. Much like it is now in countries that don't have any inconvenient laws requiring factory owners to treat their staff like human beings.
Especially since the moronic economists seem to be blissfully unaware that every person unable to 'adapt' is a lost paying customer. This is nothing like the change from carriages to cars since the car jobs stayed in the same country. Megacorps have killed the goose that laid the golden eggs and now the remaining eggs are running out.
It's not just Corp USA it's Corp World and Public Sector World. IE6 and 7 are still heavily used all over the place internally. It may be dying on the internet but on the intranet it's still alive and kicking, and since you can't have two versions of IE on the same machine IE6/7/8/9 and 10 will be around for a long, long time. Let me ask you a question: how do you convince the head of IT of a large organisation who has just paid a great deal of money to upgrade from IE6 to 7 he needs to upgrade again and he will have to pay for new software to replace all the internal applications that also had to be heavily modified to run on IE7?
I have just (in the last three months) upgraded one of my clients from IE6 to IE8 and they still need to run it in IE7 mode as plenty of their intranet stuff doesn't work on IE8. So I'm not wrong and as for ditching IE7 anytime soon - good luck with that. Both your 'solutions' cost money - 'just' virtualize (how much will that cost), 'just' upgrade to IE8 (how much will it cost to rewrite all the stuff that breaks) and as for IE9's compatibility mode just shut the fuck up.
The whole tone of your argument is hilarious. People don't support IE6 and 7 for fun we do it because we have no choice. You obviously don't do any corporate intranet work otherwise you wouldn't be talking such bollocks.
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In Windows 95 it was the ability to lose weeks of work after defragmenting your hard drive. Yes that happened to me and I discovered Linux very soon after and it has never (so far after 12 years) eaten any of my data. Incidentally what did take weeks or months on Novell or Unix that took hours on Windows 95/NT?
The Application Developer Base has billions of lines of working code that they don't have the budget to rewrite in .NET. I look forward to the day when Microsoft try to dictate to their corporate customers and their corporate customers, just like they did with Vista, will say 'screw you we're not buying something that doesn't run our software'. XP Mode exists because, out in the real world, software can't just be rewritten on a whim or because Microsoft say it should be, and in fact should be on all versions of Windows 7, not just the really expensive ones.
Apple were in a totally different position. They had far fewer users and a lot less to lose by dropping legacy support.
IBM Mainframes still run software written 40 years ago. Why? Because businesses still depend on it and it still does what it's supposed to. That is the issue Microsoft faces and it's one, just like IBM before them, was brought about by their ill-gotten market ownership.
I remember IEF, later Cool:Gen, that took flowcharts and generated the most hideous and confusing COBOL code I've ever seen. And considering how many godawful COBOL systems I've worked on I was impressed and horrified at the same time.
A colleague of mine had an iPhone but as she's one of the clumsiest people on earth the flimsy poser toy couldn't keep up with her. The Blackberry she has now seems to be pretty much bulletproof. I don't get this "RIM are dead". I see more people with Blackberries here in the UK than with iPhones. Or is this just another 'they're not doing well in the US so they're dead' a la Nokia.
It would be even funnier if someone hadn't already posted that on an earlier Sony story.
When people ask why my apps run on Windows and Linux but not Mac I always reply: Because Apple's DRM makes it illegal to use OSX on my hardware, neither Linux or Windows does. Apple would rather lock things down than let me compile my code on my hardware with their OS.
Not talking about you am I. Read up. As for EULA not trumping law have a read of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_license_agreement. Apart from anything else, even if the EULA isn't enforceable good luck taking on Apple in court.
The Commissioners are recommended by the elected governments of the member states and chosen by the elected European parliament. They are as 'undemocratic' as, for example, the head of the UK's civil service. If you are unhappy with the way the EU is run then I hope you have been voting for a candidate that will do something about it, and not just being like a lot of the people here in the UK who go on endlessly about the evils of the EU but can't be bothered to get off their backsides and go to a polling booth every few years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-garde
Agreed, although I have to say that my first thought on hearing the news was 'how convenient'.
The EULA says different but you keep telling yourself it's fine. Just before a BSA audit costs your company a fortune.
It's illegal to run Mac OS X on anything but a Mac and I have no idea where Sony and Nintendo come into an argument about why someone doesn't want to pay for a Mac when they already have an Intel machine. There is no good technical reason why Mac OS X can't run on any modern PC but that is restricted by Apple and requires you to break the law to get it to work. That's okay for an individual I suppose but anyone running a business should be very wary of using illegal software.
Same here in the UK. Blackberries seem to be in the phones of the young and trendy (i.e. not me ;-)). I see plenty of cool kids with them and very few with iPhones. The iPhones seem to be in the hands of rich students or middle-aged people who wish they were still cool.
No.
Deckchairs are much easier to throw than office chairs too. Can someone please explain to me why, with all the creative talent in the world now, there isn't either a flying chairs screensaver, or a version of Donkey Kong with Steve Ballmer throwing down chairs instead of barrels or both? At the very least the Billborg icon should now be a mobile chair.
No. But in those days manufacturing was very dangerous and paid very badly. Much like it is now in countries that don't have any inconvenient laws requiring factory owners to treat their staff like human beings.
And the easily annoyed minds are finding ways to turn the ads off.
No one will be buying their products so they will lose out as well.
If it's any comfort the removal of people's disposable income will fuck the corporate scum and their pet politicians as much as the rest of us.
Nothing to do with those jobs being moved to countries without inconvenient laws requiring them to treat their workers like humans then?
Especially since the moronic economists seem to be blissfully unaware that every person unable to 'adapt' is a lost paying customer. This is nothing like the change from carriages to cars since the car jobs stayed in the same country. Megacorps have killed the goose that laid the golden eggs and now the remaining eggs are running out.
How ridiculous! Using something because it works. What they should be doing is moving to a browser that doesn't run their software.
He takes his business elsewhere. You fail.
It's not just Corp USA it's Corp World and Public Sector World. IE6 and 7 are still heavily used all over the place internally. It may be dying on the internet but on the intranet it's still alive and kicking, and since you can't have two versions of IE on the same machine IE6/7/8/9 and 10 will be around for a long, long time. Let me ask you a question: how do you convince the head of IT of a large organisation who has just paid a great deal of money to upgrade from IE6 to 7 he needs to upgrade again and he will have to pay for new software to replace all the internal applications that also had to be heavily modified to run on IE7?
I have just (in the last three months) upgraded one of my clients from IE6 to IE8 and they still need to run it in IE7 mode as plenty of their intranet stuff doesn't work on IE8. So I'm not wrong and as for ditching IE7 anytime soon - good luck with that. Both your 'solutions' cost money - 'just' virtualize (how much will that cost), 'just' upgrade to IE8 (how much will it cost to rewrite all the stuff that breaks) and as for IE9's compatibility mode just shut the fuck up.
The whole tone of your argument is hilarious. People don't support IE6 and 7 for fun we do it because we have no choice. You obviously don't do any corporate intranet work otherwise you wouldn't be talking such bollocks.
Yeh like that's a good idea. Yarrrr install me genuine Winderrs no scurvy vairuses gaaaaaranteed.