There's no reason to upgrade software that does what you want it to. Microsoft have not only failed to realise this but have also been thick enough to make Vista require the purchase of new computers to run it, ensuring its near total failure in the corporate world.
Windows XP is fine and does what people need it to do - why should they have to switch just because you and Microsoft say they should? Vista won't run on a lot of PCs running XP and a lot of XP software won't run on Win2k. There is no emotional attachment - it's purely a practical one.
Perhaps your countryman should study a bit more history since that's what I'm angrily reacting to. So I didn't know there were 10 US pilots in the RAF big deal. I know and am incredibly grateful for the US contribution to WW2 whereas the original tosspot seems to think that you won it all on your own while we all cowered in terror.
I apologise for any offence I've given to the decent Americans on here but I'm sick and tired of hearing how the mighty US saved us weak little Europeans as if we did nothing until 1941.
Me give it a rest? All I've heard from across the Atlantic since the French and the Germans refused to join in the absolute disaster that is the Iraq invasion is how damn ungrateful us Yooroes are by not stitching our lips to your buttocks since you saved us from foreign invasion singlehandedly.
Plenty of Europeans sacrificed their lives too and it's incredibly offensive to their descendants to imply that the wonderful Americans just turned up and saved us all while our ancestors just cowered in fear. I don't remember too many American pilots involved in the Battle of Britain for example. Now fuck off and stick your "OMG THE UNGRATEFUL YOOROES" up your ill-educated Yankee arse.
Well if they are then it's about bloody time the world's biggest software company actually produced some good software at the release time rather than two service packs in like XP and probably Vista.
Probably because there is no Slashdot groupthink - it's just paranoia on part of people like yourself. I see plenty of anti-piracy and pro-MS posts here personally. And it isn't theft it's unlicensed use. Adobe still have the source and binaries to Photoshop.
I've still got a 48k Spectrum+ with the crappy plastic keyboard instead of the crappy rubber keyboard - must get it out and see if it still works! I never meant my post to be any kind of defence of Microsoft's shoddy products - to me it's a scandal that their products are so poor.
I've never seen any negativity about the quality of DX, only about the platform lock-in. AFAIK it is a good library - if only it was cross-platform like the others.
I agree with all your points although this is hardly a new thing. From the same era as the BBC Micro the Sinclair Spectrum was notoriously shoddy and easy to break as was its predecessor the ZX81 (RAM pack wobble took out many a program in the bad old days).
When Apple and KDE are found guilty of anti-trust violations which particularly involve manipulating the browser market to protect their OS monopoly in two very large jurisdictions then no doubt they will be. Perhaps one day this non-argument that surfaces every time Microsoft are expected to comply with court judgements will go away. But I doubt it.
And they always will but let's face it the legal and political systems in the developed world are superb compared to the totalitarian structures we used to have and which a lot of the world still suffers under. The political and legal systems will never be perfect while humans run them but they're a hell of a lot better than the "divine right of kings" we used to have.
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There's no reason to upgrade software that does what you want it to. Microsoft have not only failed to realise this but have also been thick enough to make Vista require the purchase of new computers to run it, ensuring its near total failure in the corporate world.
Windows XP is fine and does what people need it to do - why should they have to switch just because you and Microsoft say they should? Vista won't run on a lot of PCs running XP and a lot of XP software won't run on Win2k. There is no emotional attachment - it's purely a practical one.
It isn't quite that simple sadly.
Yes we should have large unelected corporations do it instead. That works so much better doesn't it.
It removes them from the control of vested interests who would have them drum up artificial hysteria about trivial things rather than report the news.
Perhaps your countryman should study a bit more history since that's what I'm angrily reacting to. So I didn't know there were 10 US pilots in the RAF big deal. I know and am incredibly grateful for the US contribution to WW2 whereas the original tosspot seems to think that you won it all on your own while we all cowered in terror.
I apologise for any offence I've given to the decent Americans on here but I'm sick and tired of hearing how the mighty US saved us weak little Europeans as if we did nothing until 1941.
Me give it a rest? All I've heard from across the Atlantic since the French and the Germans refused to join in the absolute disaster that is the Iraq invasion is how damn ungrateful us Yooroes are by not stitching our lips to your buttocks since you saved us from foreign invasion singlehandedly.
Woot my first first post after only 9 years on Slashdot!
A somewhat more balanced media is in everyone's interest.
Plenty of Europeans sacrificed their lives too and it's incredibly offensive to their descendants to imply that the wonderful Americans just turned up and saved us all while our ancestors just cowered in fear. I don't remember too many American pilots involved in the Battle of Britain for example. Now fuck off and stick your "OMG THE UNGRATEFUL YOOROES" up your ill-educated Yankee arse.
PC is a draconian left-wing policy; this is a draconian right-wing policy.
Well if they are then it's about bloody time the world's biggest software company actually produced some good software at the release time rather than two service packs in like XP and probably Vista.
Yes because all the people that come to this site think exactly the same.
Probably because there is no Slashdot groupthink - it's just paranoia on part of people like yourself. I see plenty of anti-piracy and pro-MS posts here personally. And it isn't theft it's unlicensed use. Adobe still have the source and binaries to Photoshop.
This argument could run and run ;-)
And what are you doing by making a general statement about 60 million people based on what some of their grandparents did hmmm?
I've still got a 48k Spectrum+ with the crappy plastic keyboard instead of the crappy rubber keyboard - must get it out and see if it still works! I never meant my post to be any kind of defence of Microsoft's shoddy products - to me it's a scandal that their products are so poor.
I've never seen any negativity about the quality of DX, only about the platform lock-in. AFAIK it is a good library - if only it was cross-platform like the others.
I agree with all your points although this is hardly a new thing. From the same era as the BBC Micro the Sinclair Spectrum was notoriously shoddy and easy to break as was its predecessor the ZX81 (RAM pack wobble took out many a program in the bad old days).
I prefer to talk down to small children myself - you're less likely to get punched out.
You just need a big blue guy although you might have to remind him to set up the air bubble.
I doubt the copyright overlords who own the media would allow their enemies to denounce them in that media.
When Apple and KDE are found guilty of anti-trust violations which particularly involve manipulating the browser market to protect their OS monopoly in two very large jurisdictions then no doubt they will be. Perhaps one day this non-argument that surfaces every time Microsoft are expected to comply with court judgements will go away. But I doubt it.
And they always will but let's face it the legal and political systems in the developed world are superb compared to the totalitarian structures we used to have and which a lot of the world still suffers under. The political and legal systems will never be perfect while humans run them but they're a hell of a lot better than the "divine right of kings" we used to have.