Vista has around 20% of market so your statement is clearly wrong in quantative terms at least. XP users are more likely to upgrade because their machines are old. Not much point upgrading from Vista to 7.
I have my Firefox configured to automatically download and install updates. That's what I want. It's all the dialogs that go with that process that annoy me. I would love for FF to update itself silently without bugging me.
I fully understand that software will never be 100% safe out of the box, I just don't want all the bloody nagging dialogs!
I'm very appreciative of the patches. It's the endless flow of dialogs that I abhor. Why can't they update it all in the background? I just want to use my browser, NOW!
Yeah it would be much better if the patches came out like they do for Firefox so that every other time you start Firefox you have to navigate an update dialog!
Of course it costs to use Windows and I did indeed acknowledge it. But it costs to use Ubuntu or any other Linux too. It's pretty hard to take what IBM say seriously since they have a clear and blatent bias. Likewise I wouldn't attach much credence to MS telling me how much cheaper it is to use Windows.
....so when is Mozilla going to detect the presence of that batch and back off? If it doesn't it runs the risk of attracting criticism for freezing out a direct competitor.
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And you could use it to locate your invisible brain.
Vista has around 20% of market so your statement is clearly wrong in quantative terms at least. XP users are more likely to upgrade because their machines are old. Not much point upgrading from Vista to 7.
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Where do you get that figure of 200-300k FF nightly users. That's mighty impressive.
They probably have more people using nightly builds of IE than there are folk using nightly builds of FF!! Oh the irony!
Surely it would be possible for software to apply security patches without requiring an interactive admin/root log-in? Windows manages to do this.
I have my Firefox configured to automatically download and install updates. That's what I want. It's all the dialogs that go with that process that annoy me. I would love for FF to update itself silently without bugging me.
I fully understand that software will never be 100% safe out of the box, I just don't want all the bloody nagging dialogs!
I'm very appreciative of the patches. It's the endless flow of dialogs that I abhor. Why can't they update it all in the background? I just want to use my browser, NOW!
I don't use noscript
Yeah it would be much better if the patches came out like they do for Firefox so that every other time you start Firefox you have to navigate an update dialog!
So which other repeat GPL violators have been cut off the internet?
I think it was meant as a humorous wind-up!
He's been at ms for a while now sysinternals still going strong and I reckon it's far better having him on the inside than on the outside.
Are you some kind of total spaz?! Elevate your editor!
Someone with a better sense of humour than you it would appear!
for workgroups
.....and then they'll be back to Exchange or Domino or GeeWhizz!
I'm planning on getting an SSD drive in around 10 years time once the technology is mature!
I use http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
Why don't you just run those command line tools on Windows?
Of course it costs to use Windows and I did indeed acknowledge it. But it costs to use Ubuntu or any other Linux too. It's pretty hard to take what IBM say seriously since they have a clear and blatent bias. Likewise I wouldn't attach much credence to MS telling me how much cheaper it is to use Windows.
You aren't making any sense. Yes the Windows licence is more than Ubuntu, but not $2,000 more. What on earth are you actually trying to say?
The reason people stick Windows is that they prefer it.
If you need to spend $2k doing an install on W7 then surely you'd need to spend the same installing Ubuntu?
Or does that just install itself and re-train the users automagically?
....so when is Mozilla going to detect the presence of that batch and back off? If it doesn't it runs the risk of attracting criticism for freezing out a direct competitor.