That is because you are not familiar with Win 7. Not htat Win 7 is inferior. I hate XP! I used to run it and support it but I no longer have all the mouse clicks and settings memorized anymore. It doubles my time now as I have to sit and think and wait on where that setting went too.
With Windows 7 you have instant search. This is why I dislike Xp so much. Want to change the power settings? Hit the WIndows key and type power, then enter BAM! Power settings. IN XP? I think it is in the control panel somewhere?? I would have to click around to remember where.
After doing that you cringe going back on an XP box. XP is dying. Its SATA driver does not even support command queing! It is not scalable. XP is a security risk. The power settings like sleep hardly ever work and adds to energy costs. This is especially true for an office of pentium IVs. It is time to make plans to leave unless you have some aweful software or strange equipment.
In many clients I have upgraded to Windows 7 the first thing they notice is a 50% decrease in malware. The second is lower energy costs. True it could be due to some icore3 and AMD phenom II systems that sip energy and do not use 100 watts like the old ones did. Sleep support is nice that is not even enabled by default in XP.
Once newer and better.NET versions come out that are not compatible with XP it will make many more programs not work with it. Hardware acceleration with DX 11 is nice too for many programs. IE 9 for example is fluid when you go up and down on a page while IE 8 flickers and is unreadable. One of the major reasons right there why IE 9 was not backported to XP.
How many months did it take for him to loose productivity and money finding someone under the age of 60 who has even used that product before? How much money did he loose or have his secretary not be able to answer emails because the system was obsolete?
If you had spent $600 for a new PC with XP and Office with a lan connection so she could answer emails, get directions from google maps or mapquest, check out websites of vendors, could he have saved of made?
Why not switch to typewritters while we are at it? Then you could save A TON of money.
That Walmart mentality is all the bean counters count. It is impossible to see the hidden costs in an accurate measure so they assume they do not even exist!
Not upgrading typically shifts the cost from the company to everyone else who has to support it. That is a win according to the accountants too. Now you need IE 6 still because all your suppliers require you to have it because your company requires them to support, etc. Everyone losses in such a scenario,
Volkswagon has that problem. IE 6 is required because every vendor would have to upgrade and every vendor wont upgrade because Volkswagon wont upgrade. Ancient browser support is the number one issue behind factory equipment keeping XP alive well after it should be dead.
The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is some hate the new explorer. You can download a better one from www.filehippo.com, but Windows 7 is superior in almost anyway. I can't stand XP anymore.
I was wondering why he got modded down to -1. It is not flamebait to give a good reason to upgrade even if he is a new poster. Many such as myself and hairyfeet hate XP and want to kill it with Windows 7. That does not make me a troll. Just the obvious that I do not like supporting older platforms because they externalize cost and hurt innovation for the rest of us.
That is the fallacy it is broke. Will it read photoshop CS 7 files? Nope. Will it get security updates? Nope. Is the architecture not secure. Yep. Will it read Office 2k13 files with office 2k3? Nope. Will it read PDF files make in Adobe 12? Nope, Will its IE read HTML 5 sites? Nope. Will FF and Chrome still support it after 2014?Nope.
You know refusing to upgrade has costs. The costs externalize to the rest of us. Why should I have to learn IE 6 hacks in 2012? Why should drver makers, IT staff, developers, and everyone on the planet cater to users who refuse to upgrade and increase our costs for free? You think it is free for Dell to do QA for 3 different operating systems? What about MS?
Yes, people have been working for free doing extra stuff like IE 7 comaptiblity and making a website look shitty all for your convenience for years. The time is coming and it is time to let XP go. At some point it is not my problem but yours.
The issue is the crappy SATA driver that comes with XP. MS crippled it to make Vista look faster. Basically command queing is stripped out. Worse XP's swapping algorithm pages like a mofo too. WIth that and only one command at a time being executed by the hard drive makes I/O sssllooowww,
If you are lucky you can find a proprietary driver for XP if one exists. If not Windows 7 will run circles around XP. I can verify this with my phenomII 6 core at home. XP takes 2.5 to 3x to even boot compared to Windows 7.
I think people are making things up as an excuse to avoid change. Lighter does not mean faster with modern hardware.
I hope you are friendly with your help desk team? Because without ADM support anything BUT IE is a nightmare! There is no central way to manage policies with anything but IE. Most good IT departments will only support IE as it is the one where you can use proxies, keyloggers, and lock them down.
If there is a sexual harasement lawsuit and you can't find out what your chrome users did on the internet the lawyers will drool! With IE you can force them into a proxy to monitor things.
No business reasons? How about: 1. No hardware support 2. No software support 3. IT not familiar with it anymore 4. IE not working on all websites 5. Seucirty issues 6. No patches!
Those are 6 very good business reasons if you ask me to start migrating. Sure your ancient software is supported but what about the upcoming Adobe Photoshop 7? No XP support. How about HTML 5 websites? No XP support (since corps only use IE), What if the next code red hits your enterprise? No XP patch. What if all the tablets by dell are EFI only? No XP support.
Eventually your business will get emails with docx 1.3 file formats in which OFfice 2003 can't read. Then what? Same with your marketing department. In the next 5 years all of these things will happen.
The world does not revolve around your office I laugh out loud when I hear MS IS BEING GREEDY! Dude have you ever owned a mac? If your mac is from 2009 you out of support! XP is 11 years old and MS is being more than generous here. Fact of the matter is it costs money for everyone to backport everything. Examples of costs: 1. Webmasters researching and implementing 10 year old bug fixes and work arounds for IE 6 2. Developers using older.NET libraries because.NET 5 is not XP compatible 3. Hardware makers have to double the costs to keep writting drivers and doing extensive QA to run your ancient platform 4. Other customers, vendors, clients having to use ancient technology to make your fear based IT department happy.
There comes a point where it is not our problem for not supporting your platform but yours for not upgrading. It is 2012 and will be moving to clouds newer versions of software and HTML 5. Yes Firefox and Chrome will eventually in a year or two no longer even run ON XP! I will be sending you Photoshop CS 7 files, not coding for anything under IE 9, and be sending you docx files that can't be read in Office 2k3 all within the next 5 years.
If you can't deal with this then you are not worth my time and are incompetent.
First claim is the big investment houses expect it to fail. It is not investment grade anymore which means they can't get loans to cover debt. The big investment houses made that call and the data shows an upcoming bankruptcy.
Keep in mind companies like Apple got this bad before. It is possible but highly unlikely they can make up the revenue enough to give their books a more positive outlook in an accounting sense.
Second, if people can run Office and all their apps on a tablet with a keyboard cover they will do so. Why carry 2 things? As of now the IPAD lacks a keyboard and productivity software. But for general use they are superior with a better OS, longer battery life, higher DPI, etc. Will Metro catch on? I do not know. I do know pro Modern UI crowd is correct that people hate change and I remember hacks on geting file manager and program manager for Windows 95 because using the start ->all programs was too scary.
With a hybrid it is certainly possible a cheaper WIndows RT device that has a keyboard and the top comes off as a tablet that can run IE 10 (a decent IE for once), angry birds, and Office then the PC turns into a niche.
The UI is not. Infact Windows 7 is very close to XP and yet users still whined because explorer is so different. SIgh. These users will freak the fuck out and demand a PC with 7 and march to ITs office if they ever did anything so stupid.
It is very radical and productivity would come to a halt. Enterprise is very not warmed up to it even if their new versions of their business apps that run on Win 7 are compatible with Windows 8.
Then why did it never cross XPs marketshare? MS counted all new pc sales as Vista marketshare even though most just wiped it and put XP on it. Corporations for example make up 50% of the pc market.
The link with the 3 year old is here. Also Hairy your store deals with the less technological users. People under 30 know how to reinstall their OS and clean malware for the most part and can figure out Windows 8. THe over +50 grandmas probably just left AOL a few users ago and do not what a tab is when they open IE 8 or dragon assuming you install it.
You may hate Metro... modern, with a passion but there is some truth in it. AMD is about to go belly up in the coming months, MS profits are down 20%, Intel's fabrication plants are only at 50% capacity, sales of all PCs are diving.
The recession in Europe is hurting sales as many are keeping their pentium IV clunkers when you have unemployment as high as 20% in places like Spain and Italy! But a lot has to do with tablets. My parents are a classic example. They are not technical people. My father used to be an IT manager... back in the 1980s but he has more experience managing IBM 370 Cobol projects and calls email, lotus CCmail still, and remembers Lotus 123 for Windows 3.1.
He loves his IPAD. What are his uses? Internet, and email. The IPAD is a much better platform as it is easier, more reliable, less prone to malware, has nifty features like a cam on both sides, and is super portable and cheap. Tablets cost less than laptops because of the Windows tax.
Windows 8 UI will hit some resistence at first. But I am warming up to it. Fanboy site Neowin showed modern so easy a 3 year old can use it [neowin.net]. Many older people still refuse to leave XP because they have change so much and will fight tooth and nail to leave IE 8 as well because it is what they know. Young people embrace and learn. You can use Windows 8 in the desktop and it is usable. Just different. If Windows 9 makes it easy for more than one tile on the screen, a task bar for Metro applets, a much more sane way to search for files with instant search that wont take up the stupid screen, then I may opt for a tablet with Windows 9 in 8 to 10 years when my Windows 7 desktop is on life support.
Why carry a tablet and a PC hairy? You can use just one device that is both and use Office and a web browser. Remember the people whining about Windows 95 and do you enable the program manager and file manager back? The young folks at time (us) embraced it while the older ones scoffed and didn't want to learn. I am not sold on Modern and will sit around and wait and see people's reaction. But I am open to relearn it if that is where the market is heading.
They're the top dogs because x86 is the stanrdard for desktops, and it's only still the standard because it's cheap.
No, they're top dogs because of "Wintel". If Windows had been running on ARM since XP it would be a whole different story.
Yep. Corporations are the bread and butter. Consumers are fickly and dirt cheap. They will happily pay $1800 for a desktop if no competition exists because that is what their tools require. This is what they used to pay back in the 1990s. DO you think Intel actually cares about gamers? Then why such a horrible crappy graphics that is 10 years behind and so terrible that game developers are quiting the PC platform due to it owning 70% of the market!
Intel wants crappy graphics so you go out and buy an icore7 extreme instead of an icore3 with a dedicated card. They love things running in software and bloated operating systems. So to them no competition and high margins will make them more money and raise the share price which is the goal of any corporation that is public.
Yes Intel would be happy to charge $500 and more after that annoying AMD is out of the picture because they know you will pay for it to run Windows.
Unless things magically changed since 2007 I would say it is a cheap hack. I could never get it to work and even Blizzard admitted you should use Windows and dual boot if you play Wow. Linus himself admits if you use a Windows app just use WIndows then.
It is easier just to have Windows and click setup.exe and forget about it than constantly re-administering the system after the patches, Windows Updates, video drivers, or whatever mess something up.
IE 9 is very secure. It is sandboxes and has less than half the 0 day exploits of Firefox which is not sandboxed at all. IE 9 != IE 6.
IE 10 which is almost out is very competitive with Chrome and FF and is the fastest browser out there. I am not IE is more secure than Chrome but it is not the piece of fucking crap it was in the past.
Windows 7 supports ASLR, DEP, and seperation of priveldges that make it very secure. Your views of Windows are outdated from the XP era 10 years ago. Outlook is not bad either since exchange 2007 and later is depreciating mapi and hte insecure protocals it had.
If your office still has XP you need to research these things as they are a great way to sell off a migration. Windows really is better since MS decided to focus on security in 2003.
Youtube is getting close to the point of just using HTML 5 by default except if you search for older videos. FOxit is more secure and many times lighter. Modern flash on Windows is sanboxed and has an auto-updater. If you are really worried about it use Chrome which auto updates itself and use a good AV security software suite.
That is because it is patented by Intel. I doubt Intel would let them use it wihtout paying an exhorbent price. It was smart for AMD to avoid this but their answer was poorly engineered. AMD Phenoms are not hyperthreaded, but offer hyperthreaded features in a different way.
The Phenom IIs were not that bad. They had the best value. It was the bulldozer ones that suck goatballs. But they are from 2009 and there time has come. They were only 10% slower than the first generation icore5s/icore7s, but I could get a whole cpu + motherboard for $229! Not just the cpu. If you want the extreme edition of intel you would pay$700 just for the chip and that would cover the cost of the whole system.
Today though you are correct. The newer Bulldozers that just came out are competitive with icore5 with games on laptops due to intels abysmal HD graphics which are in the process of improving by the way but still suck. Better than the icore3s with integer performance.
But I agree AMD lost and bet that accelerated HTML and flash would be much bigger now back in 2009 when AMD designed Bulldozer. Worse the Windows 7 kernel can't utilize the cores to share the FPU properly. Windows 8 can but it doesn't count as no one is going to run it due to METRO.
I am really worried and afraid Apple or someone will eat htem up and you can expect your intel cpu that is $225 to turn into $550 by years end!
It is pretty sad that a previous generation chip beats the current. I love my phenomII. It was very price competitive than an icore5 (1st generation) and I do not care if it is just 10%. I got the whole damn desktop including an ATI 5750, 8 gigs of ram for just $550. Not bad for a gamer and VMWare workstation computer that is fast. Sure it is not the $1200 but I am on a budget. I do plan to replace the powersupply and vidoe card with an ATI 7850 within the next few months. It runs fine for what I need and all 6 cores only run at 65W!
The Bulldozer would run over 110W and be loud, require a 700 watt power supply with that video card listed above (not the quiet 500 watt powersupply) and actually be slower unless I overclocked it and it produced heat and noise.
But hey their shareprice didn't go down as much and that was the most important thing right? Investors rewarded them for selling all their assets to make money... then act all shocked the following quarter later they lost money!
As it was it is unfair as they had to make a better chip than intel just to break even speed wise as they were always 1-2 generations behind fabrication wise. Intel as the best foundries so they simple can make their transistors and wires smaller. It was rigged against AMD from the beginning.
Now they have to outsource them and pay someone else a hefty margin while intel doesn't and can just make the same chips faster and it even has a better architecture to boot too!
If the phenom II had the same size circuits and wires it could have been competitive with the core2's easily.
So one person says something and that represents the country? Name a PM who endorses this?
Until the nuclear program recently you have not. Iran's words and actions state otherwise. They setup puppet governments in Syria and Lebanon and even a rogue army of Hezbollah whose goal is look after the interests of Iran and help plot to destroy Israel. I do not see Israel doing the same things.
Now they want a nuclear weapon and have funded the war with Israel in 2006 and I am sure Hezbollah would love such a weapon.
I am sorry but Israel is clearly not the bully here and Iran not the victim.
When did Israel threaten Iran? Until they 5 years ago. NEVER.
THe analogy is more like a neighbor who has an elaborate plot to blow your house up, fund neighborhood kids to trash it and cause you trouble, believes God is destined for him to destroy your home and give it to your neighbors.
Oh and now they want to defend themselves before they get nuked and then cry uncle and how they are the victim of such a mean cruel neighbor.
Israel is a sovereign nation recognized by the UN in 1949 as such. It is not illegal for Israel to exist, contrary to what the Arabs will tell you.
What nation is Hezbollah a member of? Iran. What nation funds indirect wars with Israel from Lebanon and Syrian puppet governments? Iran. Who tried to assassinate the ambassador of Sauda Arabia. Iran. Who goes and bombs innocent Israeli tourists in Bulgaria? Iran.
The list goes on...
Israel has a right to defend itself against a nation who has tried since 1979 to destroy and control the middle east. This is why the Saudi Kingdom and Iran do not like each other. Iran is not this poor innocent victim being picked on from mean old Israel.
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That is because you are not familiar with Win 7. Not htat Win 7 is inferior. I hate XP! I used to run it and support it but I no longer have all the mouse clicks and settings memorized anymore. It doubles my time now as I have to sit and think and wait on where that setting went too.
With Windows 7 you have instant search. This is why I dislike Xp so much. Want to change the power settings? Hit the WIndows key and type power, then enter BAM! Power settings. IN XP? I think it is in the control panel somewhere?? I would have to click around to remember where.
After doing that you cringe going back on an XP box. XP is dying. Its SATA driver does not even support command queing! It is not scalable. XP is a security risk. The power settings like sleep hardly ever work and adds to energy costs. This is especially true for an office of pentium IVs. It is time to make plans to leave unless you have some aweful software or strange equipment.
In many clients I have upgraded to Windows 7 the first thing they notice is a 50% decrease in malware. The second is lower energy costs. True it could be due to some icore3 and AMD phenom II systems that sip energy and do not use 100 watts like the old ones did. Sleep support is nice that is not even enabled by default in XP.
Once newer and better .NET versions come out that are not compatible with XP it will make many more programs not work with it. Hardware acceleration with DX 11 is nice too for many programs. IE 9 for example is fluid when you go up and down on a page while IE 8 flickers and is unreadable. One of the major reasons right there why IE 9 was not backported to XP.
Pennywise but dollar dumb.
How many months did it take for him to loose productivity and money finding someone under the age of 60 who has even used that product before? How much money did he loose or have his secretary not be able to answer emails because the system was obsolete?
If you had spent $600 for a new PC with XP and Office with a lan connection so she could answer emails, get directions from google maps or mapquest, check out websites of vendors, could he have saved of made?
Why not switch to typewritters while we are at it? Then you could save A TON of money.
That Walmart mentality is all the bean counters count. It is impossible to see the hidden costs in an accurate measure so they assume they do not even exist!
Not upgrading typically shifts the cost from the company to everyone else who has to support it. That is a win according to the accountants too. Now you need IE 6 still because all your suppliers require you to have it because your company requires them to support, etc. Everyone losses in such a scenario,
Volkswagon has that problem. IE 6 is required because every vendor would have to upgrade and every vendor wont upgrade because Volkswagon wont upgrade. Ancient browser support is the number one issue behind factory equipment keeping XP alive well after it should be dead.
Something has to give.
?? What does XP do that WIndows 7 can't?
The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is some hate the new explorer. You can download a better one from www.filehippo.com, but Windows 7 is superior in almost anyway. I can't stand XP anymore.
Why is that guy a troll? I mean come on!
I was wondering why he got modded down to -1. It is not flamebait to give a good reason to upgrade even if he is a new poster. Many such as myself and hairyfeet hate XP and want to kill it with Windows 7. That does not make me a troll. Just the obvious that I do not like supporting older platforms because they externalize cost and hurt innovation for the rest of us.
That is the fallacy it is broke. Will it read photoshop CS 7 files? Nope. Will it get security updates? Nope. Is the architecture not secure. Yep. Will it read Office 2k13 files with office 2k3? Nope. Will it read PDF files make in Adobe 12? Nope, Will its IE read HTML 5 sites? Nope. Will FF and Chrome still support it after 2014?Nope.
You know refusing to upgrade has costs. The costs externalize to the rest of us. Why should I have to learn IE 6 hacks in 2012? Why should drver makers, IT staff, developers, and everyone on the planet cater to users who refuse to upgrade and increase our costs for free? You think it is free for Dell to do QA for 3 different operating systems? What about MS?
Yes, people have been working for free doing extra stuff like IE 7 comaptiblity and making a website look shitty all for your convenience for years. The time is coming and it is time to let XP go. At some point it is not my problem but yours.
The issue is the crappy SATA driver that comes with XP. MS crippled it to make Vista look faster. Basically command queing is stripped out. Worse XP's swapping algorithm pages like a mofo too. WIth that and only one command at a time being executed by the hard drive makes I/O sssllooowww,
If you are lucky you can find a proprietary driver for XP if one exists. If not Windows 7 will run circles around XP. I can verify this with my phenomII 6 core at home. XP takes 2.5 to 3x to even boot compared to Windows 7.
I think people are making things up as an excuse to avoid change. Lighter does not mean faster with modern hardware.
I hope you are friendly with your help desk team? Because without ADM support anything BUT IE is a nightmare! There is no central way to manage policies with anything but IE. Most good IT departments will only support IE as it is the one where you can use proxies, keyloggers, and lock them down.
If there is a sexual harasement lawsuit and you can't find out what your chrome users did on the internet the lawyers will drool! With IE you can force them into a proxy to monitor things.
That is just common sense
No business reasons? How about:
1. No hardware support
2. No software support
3. IT not familiar with it anymore
4. IE not working on all websites
5. Seucirty issues
6. No patches!
Those are 6 very good business reasons if you ask me to start migrating. Sure your ancient software is supported but what about the upcoming Adobe Photoshop 7? No XP support. How about HTML 5 websites? No XP support (since corps only use IE), What if the next code red hits your enterprise? No XP patch. What if all the tablets by dell are EFI only? No XP support.
Eventually your business will get emails with docx 1.3 file formats in which OFfice 2003 can't read. Then what? Same with your marketing department. In the next 5 years all of these things will happen.
The world does not revolve around your office .NET libraries because .NET 5 is not XP compatible
I laugh out loud when I hear MS IS BEING GREEDY! Dude have you ever owned a mac? If your mac is from 2009 you out of support! XP is 11 years old and MS is being more than generous here. Fact of the matter is it costs money for everyone to backport everything. Examples of costs:
1. Webmasters researching and implementing 10 year old bug fixes and work arounds for IE 6
2. Developers using older
3. Hardware makers have to double the costs to keep writting drivers and doing extensive QA to run your ancient platform
4. Other customers, vendors, clients having to use ancient technology to make your fear based IT department happy.
There comes a point where it is not our problem for not supporting your platform but yours for not upgrading. It is 2012 and will be moving to clouds newer versions of software and HTML 5. Yes Firefox and Chrome will eventually in a year or two no longer even run ON XP! I will be sending you Photoshop CS 7 files, not coding for anything under IE 9, and be sending you docx files that can't be read in Office 2k3 all within the next 5 years.
If you can't deal with this then you are not worth my time and are incompetent.
First claim is the big investment houses expect it to fail. It is not investment grade anymore which means they can't get loans to cover debt. The big investment houses made that call and the data shows an upcoming bankruptcy.
Keep in mind companies like Apple got this bad before. It is possible but highly unlikely they can make up the revenue enough to give their books a more positive outlook in an accounting sense.
Second, if people can run Office and all their apps on a tablet with a keyboard cover they will do so. Why carry 2 things? As of now the IPAD lacks a keyboard and productivity software. But for general use they are superior with a better OS, longer battery life, higher DPI, etc. Will Metro catch on? I do not know. I do know pro Modern UI crowd is correct that people hate change and I remember hacks on geting file manager and program manager for Windows 95 because using the start ->all programs was too scary.
With a hybrid it is certainly possible a cheaper WIndows RT device that has a keyboard and the top comes off as a tablet that can run IE 10 (a decent IE for once), angry birds, and Office then the PC turns into a niche.
The UI is not. Infact Windows 7 is very close to XP and yet users still whined because explorer is so different. SIgh. These users will freak the fuck out and demand a PC with 7 and march to ITs office if they ever did anything so stupid.
It is very radical and productivity would come to a halt. Enterprise is very not warmed up to it even if their new versions of their business apps that run on Win 7 are compatible with Windows 8.
Then why did it never cross XPs marketshare? MS counted all new pc sales as Vista marketshare even though most just wiped it and put XP on it. Corporations for example make up 50% of the pc market.
The cut and paste killed the link.
The link with the 3 year old is here. Also Hairy your store deals with the less technological users. People under 30 know how to reinstall their OS and clean malware for the most part and can figure out Windows 8. THe over +50 grandmas probably just left AOL a few users ago and do not what a tab is when they open IE 8 or dragon assuming you install it.
The PC is dying.
You may hate Metro ... modern, with a passion but there is some truth in it. AMD is about to go belly up in the coming months, MS profits are down 20%, Intel's fabrication plants are only at 50% capacity, sales of all PCs are diving.
The recession in Europe is hurting sales as many are keeping their pentium IV clunkers when you have unemployment as high as 20% in places like Spain and Italy! But a lot has to do with tablets. My parents are a classic example. They are not technical people. My father used to be an IT manager ... back in the 1980s but he has more experience managing IBM 370 Cobol projects and calls email, lotus CCmail still, and remembers Lotus 123 for Windows 3.1.
He loves his IPAD. What are his uses? Internet, and email. The IPAD is a much better platform as it is easier, more reliable, less prone to malware, has nifty features like a cam on both sides, and is super portable and cheap. Tablets cost less than laptops because of the Windows tax.
Windows 8 UI will hit some resistence at first. But I am warming up to it. Fanboy site Neowin showed modern so easy a 3 year old can use it [neowin.net]. Many older people still refuse to leave XP because they have change so much and will fight tooth and nail to leave IE 8 as well because it is what they know. Young people embrace and learn. You can use Windows 8 in the desktop and it is usable. Just different. If Windows 9 makes it easy for more than one tile on the screen, a task bar for Metro applets, a much more sane way to search for files with instant search that wont take up the stupid screen, then I may opt for a tablet with Windows 9 in 8 to 10 years when my Windows 7 desktop is on life support.
Why carry a tablet and a PC hairy? You can use just one device that is both and use Office and a web browser. Remember the people whining about Windows 95 and do you enable the program manager and file manager back? The young folks at time (us) embraced it while the older ones scoffed and didn't want to learn. I am not sold on Modern and will sit around and wait and see people's reaction. But I am open to relearn it if that is where the market is heading.
They're the top dogs because x86 is the stanrdard for desktops, and it's only still the standard because it's cheap.
No, they're top dogs because of "Wintel". If Windows had been running on ARM since XP it would be a whole different story.
Yep. Corporations are the bread and butter. Consumers are fickly and dirt cheap. They will happily pay $1800 for a desktop if no competition exists because that is what their tools require. This is what they used to pay back in the 1990s. DO you think Intel actually cares about gamers? Then why such a horrible crappy graphics that is 10 years behind and so terrible that game developers are quiting the PC platform due to it owning 70% of the market!
Intel wants crappy graphics so you go out and buy an icore7 extreme instead of an icore3 with a dedicated card. They love things running in software and bloated operating systems. So to them no competition and high margins will make them more money and raise the share price which is the goal of any corporation that is public.
Yes Intel would be happy to charge $500 and more after that annoying AMD is out of the picture because they know you will pay for it to run Windows.
Unless things magically changed since 2007 I would say it is a cheap hack. I could never get it to work and even Blizzard admitted you should use Windows and dual boot if you play Wow. Linus himself admits if you use a Windows app just use WIndows then.
It is easier just to have Windows and click setup.exe and forget about it than constantly re-administering the system after the patches, Windows Updates, video drivers, or whatever mess something up.
IE 9 is very secure. It is sandboxes and has less than half the 0 day exploits of Firefox which is not sandboxed at all. IE 9 != IE 6.
IE 10 which is almost out is very competitive with Chrome and FF and is the fastest browser out there. I am not IE is more secure than Chrome but it is not the piece of fucking crap it was in the past.
Windows 7 supports ASLR, DEP, and seperation of priveldges that make it very secure. Your views of Windows are outdated from the XP era 10 years ago. Outlook is not bad either since exchange 2007 and later is depreciating mapi and hte insecure protocals it had.
If your office still has XP you need to research these things as they are a great way to sell off a migration. Windows really is better since MS decided to focus on security in 2003.
Foxit PDF!
Youtube is getting close to the point of just using HTML 5 by default except if you search for older videos. FOxit is more secure and many times lighter. Modern flash on Windows is sanboxed and has an auto-updater. If you are really worried about it use Chrome which auto updates itself and use a good AV security software suite.
That is because it is patented by Intel. I doubt Intel would let them use it wihtout paying an exhorbent price. It was smart for AMD to avoid this but their answer was poorly engineered. AMD Phenoms are not hyperthreaded, but offer hyperthreaded features in a different way.
The Phenom IIs were not that bad. They had the best value. It was the bulldozer ones that suck goatballs. But they are from 2009 and there time has come. They were only 10% slower than the first generation icore5s/icore7s, but I could get a whole cpu + motherboard for $229! Not just the cpu. If you want the extreme edition of intel you would pay$700 just for the chip and that would cover the cost of the whole system.
Today though you are correct. The newer Bulldozers that just came out are competitive with icore5 with games on laptops due to intels abysmal HD graphics which are in the process of improving by the way but still suck. Better than the icore3s with integer performance.
But I agree AMD lost and bet that accelerated HTML and flash would be much bigger now back in 2009 when AMD designed Bulldozer. Worse the Windows 7 kernel can't utilize the cores to share the FPU properly. Windows 8 can but it doesn't count as no one is going to run it due to METRO.
I am really worried and afraid Apple or someone will eat htem up and you can expect your intel cpu that is $225 to turn into $550 by years end!
It is pretty sad that a previous generation chip beats the current. I love my phenomII. It was very price competitive than an icore5 (1st generation) and I do not care if it is just 10%. I got the whole damn desktop including an ATI 5750, 8 gigs of ram for just $550. Not bad for a gamer and VMWare workstation computer that is fast. Sure it is not the $1200 but I am on a budget. I do plan to replace the powersupply and vidoe card with an ATI 7850 within the next few months. It runs fine for what I need and all 6 cores only run at 65W!
The Bulldozer would run over 110W and be loud, require a 700 watt power supply with that video card listed above (not the quiet 500 watt powersupply) and actually be slower unless I overclocked it and it produced heat and noise.
The Thunderbird is AMDs pentium 4.
But hey their shareprice didn't go down as much and that was the most important thing right? Investors rewarded them for selling all their assets to make money ... then act all shocked the following quarter later they lost money!
As it was it is unfair as they had to make a better chip than intel just to break even speed wise as they were always 1-2 generations behind fabrication wise. Intel as the best foundries so they simple can make their transistors and wires smaller. It was rigged against AMD from the beginning.
Now they have to outsource them and pay someone else a hefty margin while intel doesn't and can just make the same chips faster and it even has a better architecture to boot too!
If the phenom II had the same size circuits and wires it could have been competitive with the core2's easily.
So one person says something and that represents the country? Name a PM who endorses this?
Until the nuclear program recently you have not. Iran's words and actions state otherwise. They setup puppet governments in Syria and Lebanon and even a rogue army of Hezbollah whose goal is look after the interests of Iran and help plot to destroy Israel. I do not see Israel doing the same things.
Now they want a nuclear weapon and have funded the war with Israel in 2006 and I am sure Hezbollah would love such a weapon.
I am sorry but Israel is clearly not the bully here and Iran not the victim.
When did Israel threaten Iran? Until they 5 years ago. NEVER.
THe analogy is more like a neighbor who has an elaborate plot to blow your house up, fund neighborhood kids to trash it and cause you trouble, believes God is destined for him to destroy your home and give it to your neighbors.
Oh and now they want to defend themselves before they get nuked and then cry uncle and how they are the victim of such a mean cruel neighbor.
Correction.
Israel is a sovereign nation recognized by the UN in 1949 as such. It is not illegal for Israel to exist, contrary to what the Arabs will tell you.
What nation is Hezbollah a member of? Iran. What nation funds indirect wars with Israel from Lebanon and Syrian puppet governments? Iran. Who tried to assassinate the ambassador of Sauda Arabia. Iran. Who goes and bombs innocent Israeli tourists in Bulgaria? Iran.
The list goes on ...
Israel has a right to defend itself against a nation who has tried since 1979 to destroy and control the middle east. This is why the Saudi Kingdom and Iran do not like each other. Iran is not this poor innocent victim being picked on from mean old Israel.