Stuff that's better and more innovative always succeeds over stuff that works in a familiar way? Is that your argument? Don't the endless complaints about the new Office 2007 interface sort of invalidate your argument?
For the same reason that Microsoft Word has had help for WordPerfect users for as long as I can remember. To make the transition as seamless as possible. Hasn't harmed MS Word's success has it?
Look and work are tied together when you're turning off the GUI effect garbage. BTW I'm fairly old (37) and I drive a manual car given that us Europeans don't much like autos.
Doesn't speak well for Microsoft that the shiny new version of their flagship software only works well when you change it to work like an 8 year old version.
There are a whole class of laws that apply to companies that abuse their dominant market position yes. That includes, but is not limited to Microsoft, they are just the most blatant, arrogant and least interested in obeying said laws.
Well this country is a fair bit smaller with much smaller roads than yours and the Q7 is way too big for a lot of them. I hate to think what a Chevy Suburban would be like in some of the tiny little alleyways that masquerade as roads around here.
SUVs aren't popular in the UK? Which bit? Certainly not Birmingham where the place is full of them. The ludicrously huge Audi Q7 seems to be very popular even with petrol currently at £1.20 a litre.
Um you do know that you can use a thing called a telephone to contact said company and cancel direct debits and the account. Or are you so tied to internet banking that you don't know how.
And you can run your Windows-only bespoke apps on PPC and SPARC can you? Will libertarians ever stop pretending that one over-powerful company dominating a market is good for consumers and should be left alone until a competitor magically appears and isn't squished by all sorts of very difficult to compete against tactics.
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In the case of Amiga OS it had proper multitasking long before any of Microsoft's offerings.
I swear at XP myself.
Stuff that's better and more innovative always succeeds over stuff that works in a familiar way? Is that your argument? Don't the endless complaints about the new Office 2007 interface sort of invalidate your argument?
They'll be too busy trying to grope the female characters for that.
slowly cross your eyes
No matter how technologically advanced porn gets it's still bad for your eyesight.
For the same reason that Microsoft Word has had help for WordPerfect users for as long as I can remember. To make the transition as seamless as possible. Hasn't harmed MS Word's success has it?
Didn't Apple pay licensing fees to Xerox to use PARC? Not exactly "theft" was it?
Lack of ability to run mission critical software would tend to slow adoption irrespective of how pretty KDE is compared to Windows Vista.
As long as it's not someone you care about that is.
You'll get a free viola with it? Any chance I could have a guitar instead?
Look and work are tied together when you're turning off the GUI effect garbage. BTW I'm fairly old (37) and I drive a manual car given that us Europeans don't much like autos.
Doesn't speak well for Microsoft that the shiny new version of their flagship software only works well when you change it to work like an 8 year old version.
Excellent last paragraph - I'm going to steal it from you :-)
There are a whole class of laws that apply to companies that abuse their dominant market position yes. That includes, but is not limited to Microsoft, they are just the most blatant, arrogant and least interested in obeying said laws.
Rugby shouldn't be in that list now should it.
Douglas Hurd? That explains a lot...
I was being sarcastic - sorry for any unintended offence.
We can disregard Venezuela as they are Commmies and enemies of freedom.
Well this country is a fair bit smaller with much smaller roads than yours and the Q7 is way too big for a lot of them. I hate to think what a Chevy Suburban would be like in some of the tiny little alleyways that masquerade as roads around here.
SUVs aren't popular in the UK? Which bit? Certainly not Birmingham where the place is full of them. The ludicrously huge Audi Q7 seems to be very popular even with petrol currently at £1.20 a litre.
Um you do know that you can use a thing called a telephone to contact said company and cancel direct debits and the account. Or are you so tied to internet banking that you don't know how.
And you can run your Windows-only bespoke apps on PPC and SPARC can you? Will libertarians ever stop pretending that one over-powerful company dominating a market is good for consumers and should be left alone until a competitor magically appears and isn't squished by all sorts of very difficult to compete against tactics.
Using a LUA in Win XP is a PITA for a knowledgeable user. Don't inflict it on people who don't understand it.
Isn't a significant chunk of MSO loaded at startup too?
I was going to mention LTSP but I thought you had some pressing reason to use Citrix like Windows-only software. Sorry about that.