No argument here, but until about a week ago IE8 was Microsoft's current browser which is compatible with XP. I have to admit I tried a netbook with XP, then one with Vista, and then one with Windows 7 and to use a word: "yikes". So I can't personally verify that those newer netbooks will run IE8 so if I'm wrong I'm wrong, but at some point you have to cut a 10.5 year old OS loose.
I did sound crabby but I didn't like his tone and I'm still bitter for using XP and IE6/7 for so long because of a couple corporate business critical apps that I didn't use. Deep breaths... Deep breaths...
What is 100% true is Microsoft are happy to leave 60% of their customers using their old insecure browsers. Some of whom only bought there OS last year.
Microsoft doesn't want people using their old browsers so their site to persuade people to change must be a decoy? http://www.ie6countdown.com./ And pushing their new browsers via Windows Update unless you take steps to prevent it must be smoke and mirrors?
Speaking of unsubstantiated, citation please for people who only bought "there" OS last year and are on old insecure browsers?
And when you talk about moving off IE6, you should start with the app developers... But don't let that get in the way of the fun.
I don't use FF or Chrome so I honestly ask which one of those are FUD? I've always treated comparison matricies with suspicion of the cherry picked features shown.
If we're benchmarking unreleased software how about going head to head with FireFox 5? We'll only have to wait a month or so of If FireFox is on the same release schedule as Chrome.
If it's firewalled, has an updated antivirus and a secure browser, does it really matter? I have an older laptop with w2k on it, not a problem at all.
Well, the OP didn't mention any of that except he's on an older version of Firefox (3.5). I would argue that the the security updates in the 15 versions of 3.5 and the 16 (so far) versions of 3.6 Firefox do not make his a "secure browser". I'm ok using an older version but from a security perspective that's putting a lot of faith in your perimeter defenses, especially with your laptop when you can't guarantee what's protecting you on a strange network. And if he uses it for e-mail I would say game over, because if you can't be bothered upgrading from FF 3.5 to something newer than I doubt security if your first concern. And yes, he might have an extension that won't work on a newer version blah blah blah.
5. If you do a fresh install of XP SP3 you will have to postpone the installation of IE8 until some patches are installed or you end up with a broken browser - which will be fixed if you uninstall and reinstall, but it may have scared a few.
What happens if you try an OS that's newer than 10 years old with a patch that's newer than three years old?
Seriously? Obviously you should take the money you were planning to use for a tablet to get yourself a gym membership. I regularly browse the internets on my ipad while holding it one hand. What I do with the other hand I leave as an exercise for the reader's imagination.
One hand holding the iPad, one hand browsing, and another hand doing something else... Zaphod, is that you?
Ironically, that's what their customers wanted. Microsoft got feature requests for things people couldn't find in the menus. The goal was to make navigation "flatter". With that said, I don't don't use it enough to get to know it and what I do know I don't like.
Surely they would have run test data before letting it go live. Maybe even feed it the actual data and simply not publish its results.
From TFA: "Meanwhile, the private view at the exchange is that the 15 month testing window should have been plenty of time for the vendors to interface perfectly with it."
Agreed. These are people who have lived it and understand that there are different flavors. If it wasn't "cyber" it would be some other buzz prefix that could be even more irritating.
No, my CPU is not worthless and I'm using the MB right now. My SATA ports are fully populated. So far I've ripped 342 DVDs into about 700GB of MP4s and then copied them to a media server. I've moved almost 2 TB of ISOs to a new HD. If the performance starts to suffer I'll move the system and a data drive to Port 0/1 and move the optical drives to 2-5 and not worry about the rest. NewEgg did offer me a refund but I'm going to wait for a replacement. I can't think of any part that I didn't get a lemon at some point or another over the years... Power supply, DVD writer, RAM, MB, CPU, etc. I bought a Logitech remote control and when I got home and it didn't work I went back to Best Buy not Logitech, so I don't follow your logic.
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...idiot anit-nukers have created such a hostile anti-nuke environment...
Right now it appears reactor #3 is creating the hostile anti-nuke environment, but we should also keep our eyes on 2 and 4.
No argument here, but until about a week ago IE8 was Microsoft's current browser which is compatible with XP. I have to admit I tried a netbook with XP, then one with Vista, and then one with Windows 7 and to use a word: "yikes". So I can't personally verify that those newer netbooks will run IE8 so if I'm wrong I'm wrong, but at some point you have to cut a 10.5 year old OS loose.
I did sound crabby but I didn't like his tone and I'm still bitter for using XP and IE6/7 for so long because of a couple corporate business critical apps that I didn't use. Deep breaths... Deep breaths...
What is 100% true is Microsoft are happy to leave 60% of their customers using their old insecure browsers. Some of whom only bought there OS last year.
Microsoft doesn't want people using their old browsers so their site to persuade people to change must be a decoy? http://www.ie6countdown.com./ And pushing their new browsers via Windows Update unless you take steps to prevent it must be smoke and mirrors?
Speaking of unsubstantiated, citation please for people who only bought "there" OS last year and are on old insecure browsers?
And when you talk about moving off IE6, you should start with the app developers... But don't let that get in the way of the fun.
I will add that they aren't able to gather the crucial data because of the loss of the ability to gather it.
Also, this: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/compare/default.aspx
I don't use FF or Chrome so I honestly ask which one of those are FUD? I've always treated comparison matricies with suspicion of the cherry picked features shown.
We'll be puzzling over our lack of elbow talons.
Not only did the entire openSUSE user base comment here, some of them more than once.
If we're benchmarking unreleased software how about going head to head with FireFox 5? We'll only have to wait a month or so of If FireFox is on the same release schedule as Chrome.
If it's firewalled, has an updated antivirus and a secure browser, does it really matter? I have an older laptop with w2k on it, not a problem at all.
Well, the OP didn't mention any of that except he's on an older version of Firefox (3.5). I would argue that the the security updates in the 15 versions of 3.5 and the 16 (so far) versions of 3.6 Firefox do not make his a "secure browser". I'm ok using an older version but from a security perspective that's putting a lot of faith in your perimeter defenses, especially with your laptop when you can't guarantee what's protecting you on a strange network. And if he uses it for e-mail I would say game over, because if you can't be bothered upgrading from FF 3.5 to something newer than I doubt security if your first concern. And yes, he might have an extension that won't work on a newer version blah blah blah.
5. If you do a fresh install of XP SP3 you will have to postpone the installation of IE8 until some patches are installed or you end up with a broken browser - which will be fixed if you uninstall and reinstall, but it may have scared a few.
What happens if you try an OS that's newer than 10 years old with a patch that's newer than three years old?
1. Microsoft wants to ask a lot of obnoxious and hard to understand questions during installation and initialization of newer versions.
Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari and others do not.
Neither does IE but let's not let that get in the way of the fun.
Seriously? Obviously you should take the money you were planning to use for a tablet to get yourself a gym membership. I regularly browse the internets on my ipad while holding it one hand. What I do with the other hand I leave as an exercise for the reader's imagination.
One hand holding the iPad, one hand browsing, and another hand doing something else... Zaphod, is that you?
It was and they did: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/01/02/0233231/Some-Hotmail-Accounts-Wiped#comments
What do you think a smartphone is, exactly? A magic slab of plastic?
Of course not. The plastic just keeps the magic smoke in.
Two words: Character Development. How would you know a character is a douche if they aren't sitting behind a Mac?
Better than any snarky comment I could come up with. Well done, sir.
Ironically, that's what their customers wanted. Microsoft got feature requests for things people couldn't find in the menus. The goal was to make navigation "flatter". With that said, I don't don't use it enough to get to know it and what I do know I don't like.
No thanks. Mamy users also have that confidence much to the dismay of our backup team.
Surely they would have run test data before letting it go live. Maybe even feed it the actual data and simply not publish its results.
From TFA: "Meanwhile, the private view at the exchange is that the 15 month testing window should have been plenty of time for the vendors to interface perfectly with it."
Agreed. These are people who have lived it and understand that there are different flavors. If it wasn't "cyber" it would be some other buzz prefix that could be even more irritating.
100 TB of storage — all on a single network.
Color me completely unimpressed. I have half of that sitting in a third of a rack myself.
I have almost a tenth of that at my house.
In terms of counting their toes and dividing by ten.
And then round up to the next whole number.
No, my CPU is not worthless and I'm using the MB right now. My SATA ports are fully populated. So far I've ripped 342 DVDs into about 700GB of MP4s and then copied them to a media server. I've moved almost 2 TB of ISOs to a new HD. If the performance starts to suffer I'll move the system and a data drive to Port 0/1 and move the optical drives to 2-5 and not worry about the rest. NewEgg did offer me a refund but I'm going to wait for a replacement. I can't think of any part that I didn't get a lemon at some point or another over the years... Power supply, DVD writer, RAM, MB, CPU, etc. I bought a Logitech remote control and when I got home and it didn't work I went back to Best Buy not Logitech, so I don't follow your logic.
As it stands now nothing but commercial encoders are accessing this I believe as Intel came to the table VERY late for the x.264 guys.
No and no.
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