I've bought cheap and I've bought designer. A good example is a watch. I was going through watches about 6-12 mo due to breakage before I bought an Omega. I'm not on a 5 year breakage cycle.
Same with Men's Suit. The quality of materials in a $1000 men's suit is far better than those in a $150 men's suit. Or an $80 shirt vs. a $20 shirt.
No they don't use the same materials as sweatshops. Cheap crap is creap crap.
I'll probably do that with the iPhone 5S. Apple has my trust, that's not brainwashing it is just a company that for many years has delivered quality products.
According to Microsoft they consider that a feature. Virtual PC was level 2, i.e. it ran on top of Windows 7. So it was an application that could request services from Windows 7. Thus for any XP map that used system services for the screen, this was easy. Hyper-V runs at level 0 "under" Windows 8. So they can't do anything on an application level.
Hyper-V does support cloud based images so that could much easier for IT departments to deploy. But in general I'm not sure if i agree with Microsoft here. On the surface it seems like for low power users it might be a downgrade. Certainly not including the XP license is a downgrade. I can see it allowing less of a lockdown feel. Microsoft may be moving towards full abstraction by default for Windows 9. Which would be cool.
Apple was not king for very long about 77-80. Commodore outsold them almost immediately with the Vic 20. The Vic 20 approached 1m units a year, and the Commodore-64 did 3x the volume the entire Apple ][ line ever did. IBM's PCDos based system were outselling Apple clones or no clones.
You are conflating the late 70s with the early 80s too much. Things changed faster than, more like phones today.
That entire concept is part of my problem. I may buy a tool for a specific job, but when I'm done, I can use that tool again and again until I decide to buy a better one.
Your analogy is off. A better analogy would be you hire someone to fix your fence. He rents a hammer and uses it. That doesn't give you right to use that hammer on another unrelated project at another time.
If you want to buy Windows you can talk to Microsoft about buying it. But Microsoft never sold it, they licensed it. They allowed Dell (or whoever OEMed your system) to pay a fixed fee to have an operating system on the hardware they sold. You were never Microsoft's customer you were Dell's customer and Dell was Microsoft's customer. The only right that ever existed was the right to run Windows on that particular machine and all that's happening is Microsoft isn't selling Dell more licenses for XP.
As for right and wrong... you did agree to this contract. You could very easily have bought XP retail which does entitle you to move from machine to machine and didn't.
As for them working for free.... you aren't really addressing the issue. You are proposing a situation where Microsoft works to decrease future revenue.
Good point. In theory the virtualization has gotten a lot better with MS HYPER-V. But Windows 7 includes a virtualized license for XP, so far it doesn't appear that 8 does. So I think you can do it, you just have to either have or need to buy a license.
I use OSX the idea is to move towards a situation where application state can be completely controlled by the OS. From the end user's perspective all their applications are always running and preserving what they were doing. There is no difference from a naive perspective between closing and hiding an application which means the OS can make that choice safely.
Because their big money is from servers. And they can't upgrade their server products to things the clients can't handle. The Windows 8/9 clients will be able to do some mega cool stuff the XP clients can't.
What they expected would happen is businesses would sign up for software assurance be upgrading their whole software infrastructure on 3-5 year cycles like in the 1990s. They are horrified by the current lack of desire of business to upgrade. But they are making lots and lots of money on the server side, so even if they had to give away clients it wouldn't matter.
For consumers they are going change strategies. The start of this is Windows 8, which will create real advantages for more expensive hardware and create the shift to Metro applications. They are also starting to move Office over which will drag business kicking and screaming to Windows 9 when the time comes.
And who exactly is going to pay for that shift? Why would Microsoft want to assist you in slitting their own throat? And frankly given how exciting the tech industry has been in the last few years on the phone side, the idea that we aren't going to see hardware driven upgrades I think is fallacious. Business are cheap and have been cheap for a decade. So they've allowed the consumer market to become much more exciting and the interesting software is going to start in the consumer sector and migrate into business.
Which is incidentally how Microsoft replaced: IBM, DEC, Unisys...
Most Microsoft customers bought XP on a particular machine, you got an OEM license to run that OS on that hardware. They aren't revoking anything they are just refusing to sell you another copy. Further given that at the time you bough XP Microsoft, had a long history of forced upgrades I don't think you can claim ignorance.
The fact is they broke pattern in support XP so well for so long.
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Google is writing one. It isn't done yet.
The iTunes store. Google has announced they are building it. When its ready it will be there.
The cost of the 16g iPhone 5 manufactured: no box, no marketing, no cost of sales, no cost of warranty, no tech support... is $207.
I've bought cheap and I've bought designer. A good example is a watch. I was going through watches about 6-12 mo due to breakage before I bought an Omega. I'm not on a 5 year breakage cycle.
Same with Men's Suit. The quality of materials in a $1000 men's suit is far better than those in a $150 men's suit. Or an $80 shirt vs. a $20 shirt.
No they don't use the same materials as sweatshops. Cheap crap is creap crap.
I'll probably do that with the iPhone 5S. Apple has my trust, that's not brainwashing it is just a company that for many years has delivered quality products.
The screen is using the same production idea as the rMBP. That's innovation.
That's true for consumers it makes sense to just break XP only apps and for enterprise most of them aren't upgrading past Win 7 for a long time.
Yeah I get your point. I was thinking the last decade of focus for Microsoft. But the old cash cow still produces.
According to Microsoft they consider that a feature. Virtual PC was level 2, i.e. it ran on top of Windows 7. So it was an application that could request services from Windows 7. Thus for any XP map that used system services for the screen, this was easy. Hyper-V runs at level 0 "under" Windows 8. So they can't do anything on an application level.
Hyper-V does support cloud based images so that could much easier for IT departments to deploy. But in general I'm not sure if i agree with Microsoft here. On the surface it seems like for low power users it might be a downgrade. Certainly not including the XP license is a downgrade. I can see it allowing less of a lockdown feel. Microsoft may be moving towards full abstraction by default for Windows 9. Which would be cool.
Apple was not king for very long about 77-80. Commodore outsold them almost immediately with the Vic 20. The Vic 20 approached 1m units a year, and the Commodore-64 did 3x the volume the entire Apple ][ line ever did. IBM's PCDos based system were outselling Apple clones or no clones.
You are conflating the late 70s with the early 80s too much. Things changed faster than, more like phones today.
That entire concept is part of my problem. I may buy a tool for a specific job, but when I'm done, I can use that tool again and again until I decide to buy a better one.
Your analogy is off. A better analogy would be you hire someone to fix your fence. He rents a hammer and uses it. That doesn't give you right to use that hammer on another unrelated project at another time.
If you want to buy Windows you can talk to Microsoft about buying it. But Microsoft never sold it, they licensed it. They allowed Dell (or whoever OEMed your system) to pay a fixed fee to have an operating system on the hardware they sold. You were never Microsoft's customer you were Dell's customer and Dell was Microsoft's customer. The only right that ever existed was the right to run Windows on that particular machine and all that's happening is Microsoft isn't selling Dell more licenses for XP.
As for right and wrong... you did agree to this contract. You could very easily have bought XP retail which does entitle you to move from machine to machine and didn't.
See the /b? Probably a typo in closing it off.
As for them working for free.... you aren't really addressing the issue. You are proposing a situation where Microsoft works to decrease future revenue.
Business division includes stuff like dynamics. I was grouping that under "server" the way I was using it above.
Good point. In theory the virtualization has gotten a lot better with MS HYPER-V. But Windows 7 includes a virtualized license for XP, so far it doesn't appear that 8 does. So I think you can do it, you just have to either have or need to buy a license.
That's what its called on Mac. There is no PC style delete which deletes in front of the cursor:
http://www.technobuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/MacBook-Pro-with-Retina-Keyboard.jpg
I use OSX the idea is to move towards a situation where application state can be completely controlled by the OS. From the end user's perspective all their applications are always running and preserving what they were doing. There is no difference from a naive perspective between closing and hiding an application which means the OS can make that choice safely.
It already is pretty amazing.
open -a vlc.app
worked fine for me.
Sorry should have been upper right, typo.
Look at your picture again. Notice the key in the upper left under the power button?
Lets turn this around. Why should Microsoft be spending money, time and effort to help people like you who don't want to give them sales?
Because their big money is from servers. And they can't upgrade their server products to things the clients can't handle. The Windows 8/9 clients will be able to do some mega cool stuff the XP clients can't.
What they expected would happen is businesses would sign up for software assurance be upgrading their whole software infrastructure on 3-5 year cycles like in the 1990s. They are horrified by the current lack of desire of business to upgrade. But they are making lots and lots of money on the server side, so even if they had to give away clients it wouldn't matter.
For consumers they are going change strategies. The start of this is Windows 8, which will create real advantages for more expensive hardware and create the shift to Metro applications. They are also starting to move Office over which will drag business kicking and screaming to Windows 9 when the time comes.
And who exactly is going to pay for that shift? Why would Microsoft want to assist you in slitting their own throat? And frankly given how exciting the tech industry has been in the last few years on the phone side, the idea that we aren't going to see hardware driven upgrades I think is fallacious. Business are cheap and have been cheap for a decade. So they've allowed the consumer market to become much more exciting and the interesting software is going to start in the consumer sector and migrate into business.
Which is incidentally how Microsoft replaced: IBM, DEC, Unisys...
Most Microsoft customers bought XP on a particular machine, you got an OEM license to run that OS on that hardware. They aren't revoking anything they are just refusing to sell you another copy. Further given that at the time you bough XP Microsoft, had a long history of forced upgrades I don't think you can claim ignorance.
The fact is they broke pattern in support XP so well for so long.
They include that free with Windows 7:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/windows-xp-mode