People probably get this impression from that one Mac guy they know or quite possibly from the commercials. Those Switch ads didn't always portray someone with smarts as wanting to Switch.
Windoze might not have multiple users, but Windows XP sure does. Heck, even Windows 98 did. That being said, I've never actually seen a Windoze system deployed.
From what I read elsewhere, Mozilla/Firefox passed any unknown commands to the OS. Shell: being the command to run something, it would have run whatever followed that command.
MS tried to do this, but apparently a few apps don't play nicely and call iexplore.exe directly instead of letting Windows take care of handling the URL. This is what "Set Program Defaults" was supposed to be about.
I thought of only one flaw to your logic, but it's a pretty big flaw. Those same users of Windows who do not patch, would more than likely not patch a computer running Linux. How many exploits have there been for Linux in the past few years? Some people still run Windows 98... Linux in 1998 had some pretty interesting "features".
Then you should read some more of them, because there's another way some of them talk about his films: Filling in the missing pieces of the interviews that show a side of the story that doesn't go along with what Moore wants.
Also important is the choice of not installing something like -- say -- X11. I mean, what is the point of a graphical interface on a headless server? Windows does not offer you that kind of flexibility.
Up until about 6 months ago you could not download anything on Fileplanet with FireFox or Opera if you had to wait in line. The page that displayed the ads would refresh and remove the frame that was waiting for the download.
You can do the same with Windows using a Windows based server. If you're smart, you can even get programs to transfer with you. We had a setup similar to what you describe at my school for about 3 years. On the 4th year the admin got smart and setup Windows server with Samba shares and we could travel around to any computer with our settings and our files.
There is a program (free) that allows you to minimize anything to the system tray as an icon. I don't remember what it's called, but someone has it somewhere.;)
If you really want it, shouldn't be hard to google for or possibly on Tucows/Download.com
I've run my XP install since the month it came out, and the registry hasn't slowed me down. I install all sorts of things, even had Gator at one point (don't let people touch your computer).
Way to spread a blanket statement and get modded insightfull... What Windows applications don't work with Windows, and what version of Windows are you trying them on. These are things you neglect to mention, and thus you are only trolling.
The firewall is what was changed to on by default for SP2, the auto downloader is set to on by default for XP already. Yes it asks you if you want to use it, but it's still on when that happens.
In Windows XP there is such an app that checks your computer against the updates available on Windows Update. It's called "Automatic Update", and it's on by default and recommended to be on when you install.
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People probably get this impression from that one Mac guy they know or quite possibly from the commercials. Those Switch ads didn't always portray someone with smarts as wanting to Switch.
Avant Browser and MyIE 2 are both programs that make use of IE for displaying and both contain tabbed browsing.
Windoze might not have multiple users, but Windows XP sure does. Heck, even Windows 98 did. That being said, I've never actually seen a Windoze system deployed.
From what I read elsewhere, Mozilla/Firefox passed any unknown commands to the OS. Shell: being the command to run something, it would have run whatever followed that command.
I've heard that the low system requirements help CS out a bit in that you don't need much to run it.
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The rest of that stuff has nothing to do with running the system with no video output.
MS tried to do this, but apparently a few apps don't play nicely and call iexplore.exe directly instead of letting Windows take care of handling the URL. This is what "Set Program Defaults" was supposed to be about.
I thought of only one flaw to your logic, but it's a pretty big flaw. Those same users of Windows who do not patch, would more than likely not patch a computer running Linux. How many exploits have there been for Linux in the past few years? Some people still run Windows 98... Linux in 1998 had some pretty interesting "features".
Then you should read some more of them, because there's another way some of them talk about his films: Filling in the missing pieces of the interviews that show a side of the story that doesn't go along with what Moore wants.
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So that's why people broke into the Open Source CVS repositories.... I always wondered.
Up until about 6 months ago you could not download anything on Fileplanet with FireFox or Opera if you had to wait in line. The page that displayed the ads would refresh and remove the frame that was waiting for the download.
You can do the same with Windows using a Windows based server. If you're smart, you can even get programs to transfer with you. We had a setup similar to what you describe at my school for about 3 years. On the 4th year the admin got smart and setup Windows server with Samba shares and we could travel around to any computer with our settings and our files.
Indeed they did, but that doesn't mean it stopped working.
What about programs like The Gimp that can eat a whole taskbar whole without anything open?
The thing that I really hate about the OSX "taskbar" is how it moves around so much. I try and click on something but it moves it out of the way.
There is a program (free) that allows you to minimize anything to the system tray as an icon. I don't remember what it's called, but someone has it somewhere. ;)
If you really want it, shouldn't be hard to google for or possibly on Tucows/Download.com
I would like to add that I've developed commercial software for both and Linux was dropped due to it being flaky with installation.
You could run RegClean if you want.
I've run my XP install since the month it came out, and the registry hasn't slowed me down. I install all sorts of things, even had Gator at one point (don't let people touch your computer).
Way to spread a blanket statement and get modded insightfull... What Windows applications don't work with Windows, and what version of Windows are you trying them on. These are things you neglect to mention, and thus you are only trolling.
No it's not. First half of the movie I kept falling asleep. Second half I kept asking myself why I was watching this. Moore is a horrible film maker.
The firewall is what was changed to on by default for SP2, the auto downloader is set to on by default for XP already. Yes it asks you if you want to use it, but it's still on when that happens.
In Windows XP there is such an app that checks your computer against the updates available on Windows Update. It's called "Automatic Update", and it's on by default and recommended to be on when you install.
Does that include grandma whose computer you took over and forced the independant browser upon? ;)