Oh so Office finally started adding some functionality? If they keep trying maybe Microsoft can catch up! Nah, they don't think of anything new...just look at Windows 7
I bought Office for my business and still switched to OpenOffice. OpenOffice works better for large documents, the integration with Calc is better, the document format is easy to manipulate with other programs, I could install it and freely share it when I needed to, and use it on any platform I choose.
Hands down the better application.
Application looks dont mean much when you are producing 3000 page document for a nice tidy sum of $$ and want to get the job done. Lyx may have been a good choice too, but for the collaborative parts I do, OpenOffice fits in a little better.
And if you need all the functionality of the latest Power Point, you just give bad presentations.
Windows mobile's stability has been a nightmare for most of our users. I am not sure what you mean by doing stuff; if you mean cursing at the phone as doing stuff, then yes, we have had lots of that activity.
I hate that idea. I really do.
I don't want to support it, not even in a backdoor method. I want web standards, not another flash player, and particularly nothing from Microsoft.
That said, a VM with Windows is better then installing it on a drive anyways. There is no slow down, and once the computer is set up the way you want it, take a snapshot. No need for antivirus or spyware tools.
Since I havent read the privacy policy for Yahoo, I wont comment on that.
However, Yahoo and Ask The Web (powered by Yahoo) have been giving me much better search results then Google lately. I am in the habit of going to Google, but I am beginning to break myself of it as the results are worth it.
"The 360 is only doing well because Microsoft actually has a very good product."
You lost me right there. They actually had a very bad product and they knew it.
However, they continued to throw money at it, and may have achieved the rest of your list.
And yes Xbox may be ahead of the ps3, but as of December 2008, the Wii was almost 2 to 1. Add the PS3 to the PS2 and Xbox very barely holds that number 2 spot. However, factor in the PSP and DS and Microsoft is waaaaayyyyyy behind.
Sure they can.
Step 1. EOL older software. Suggest that there are security holes in older versions. Wait for the design flaws to slow down the computer to a crawl so it appears like the machines fault.
Step 2. Insure that the new OS features just wont work well on older hardware.
I spit coffee when I heard a "green" advocate on the radio suggesting we should give Microsoft an award for designing a new os with better power management. WTF: what about the old machine?
No ego hurt, those documents earn me 5 to 20 thousand dollars a shot, and I dont have time to deal with MS crap. I owned Office and I switched because OpenOffice worked better then Microsoft. Read the post.
Huge Myth. So much is missing in Gnome that it makes ones head spin. The reality is that its very easy to do nearly nothing in Gnome, whereas KDE has lots to configure, but actually does something for you.
"If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd all have said they wanted a faster horse." - Henry Ford.
Forget the users, they dont have a clue. These are the same idiots who think they choose MS Windows, when really they just walked in a store and bought a computer and thats what was there.
Its like asking the passengers on a ship how to navigate, when the job should be the Captains and crew. You are the professional, make an easy transition, work with them, but dont let them try and decide what they want. They dont know.
No thats where you are wrong. Office doesnt run circles around OO for all things. In large document creation and management (500 to 1000 pages) Writer and Calc work much better together then word and Excel. I would much rather (if forced to use a word processor....) use OpenOffice then MS.
The last thing you want people to do is create vba anyways, so bite the bullet and move them away while you can. If there is a need for something to be automated or software created, take the lead and do it as a project, not as a unmanaged piece of code on someones desktop.
Or are you just cherry-picking one of the (extremely few) GUI features Linux has that Windows doesn't have as some way of boosting your Linux-using cred?
Extremely few? And by Linux lets say Desktop Environment to be clear.
There are many GUI features that the Linux desktop environment has that windows doesn't (although with windows 7 they are adding a lot already in KDE).
My netbook is 650 mhz with 512 megs. Dont be so sure. It is running KDE 3.5.9 and I should change it to 4.2 which consumes less resources then 3.5 did. Yes memory is cheap, but thats no reason for an OS to be wasteful. Does Microsoft write good code, or just a lot of it?
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Install Debian.
Ubuntu is such a catch 22. Seems easy at first, then you start shaking your head at it, things start to break, and the whole time its SLOW. Slow to install, slow to run, etc.
And to think they also KNEW they were using inferior parts that overheated and I see a pattern. If I were you I don't think I would go anywhere near Xbox number 3.
File extensions. Lol they are funny. Who would have thought an OS would use THAT to figure out what the data is and what to do with it? Nobody would ever do that would they?
Whats funny is that almost every computer I set up with dual boot, it takes me ages, sometimes months before I get around to setting up the windows side. Its just too annoying and time consuming, whereas the Linux side is already up and running right after install. Or at least is usable while I add packages, prefs and updates. How do people sit through all that rebooting and nagging EULA's, and drivers, and key entering....
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Oh so Office finally started adding some functionality? If they keep trying maybe Microsoft can catch up! Nah, they don't think of anything new...just look at Windows 7
I bought Office for my business and still switched to OpenOffice. OpenOffice works better for large documents, the integration with Calc is better, the document format is easy to manipulate with other programs, I could install it and freely share it when I needed to, and use it on any platform I choose.
Hands down the better application.
Application looks dont mean much when you are producing 3000 page document for a nice tidy sum of $$ and want to get the job done. Lyx may have been a good choice too, but for the collaborative parts I do, OpenOffice fits in a little better.
And if you need all the functionality of the latest Power Point, you just give bad presentations.
So I took a look at that Foxit Reader just now on the VM. Yuck. At least it allows you to opt out of the crap it trys to add in.
I will stick with Okular and PDF Edit. Much better, I can read AND edit pdfs.
Windows mobile's stability has been a nightmare for most of our users. I am not sure what you mean by doing stuff; if you mean cursing at the phone as doing stuff, then yes, we have had lots of that activity.
Most enterprise apps I see built with ASP.NET are the shitty ones. Ever notice that?
I hate that idea. I really do. I don't want to support it, not even in a backdoor method. I want web standards, not another flash player, and particularly nothing from Microsoft. That said, a VM with Windows is better then installing it on a drive anyways. There is no slow down, and once the computer is set up the way you want it, take a snapshot. No need for antivirus or spyware tools.
Who knew? Are these the same people who actually let Comcast install software on thier computers?
--Nothing to do with the leak of passwords, just saying.....
Since I havent read the privacy policy for Yahoo, I wont comment on that.
However, Yahoo and Ask The Web (powered by Yahoo) have been giving me much better search results then Google lately. I am in the habit of going to Google, but I am beginning to break myself of it as the results are worth it.
Thats odd, using Webkit from Sid with Midori I get 100/100.
Apparently not repeated enough. People need a reminder now and again as to why Microsoft should never, ever, be let in the door.
There is a lesson there somewhere.....
I would give up Microsoft Windows....but I like playing games.....
"The 360 is only doing well because Microsoft actually has a very good product."
You lost me right there. They actually had a very bad product and they knew it.
However, they continued to throw money at it, and may have achieved the rest of your list.
And yes Xbox may be ahead of the ps3, but as of December 2008, the Wii was almost 2 to 1. Add the PS3 to the PS2 and Xbox very barely holds that number 2 spot. However, factor in the PSP and DS and Microsoft is waaaaayyyyyy behind.
Sure they can.
Step 1. EOL older software. Suggest that there are security holes in older versions. Wait for the design flaws to slow down the computer to a crawl so it appears like the machines fault.
Step 2. Insure that the new OS features just wont work well on older hardware.
I spit coffee when I heard a "green" advocate on the radio suggesting we should give Microsoft an award for designing a new os with better power management. WTF: what about the old machine?
No ego hurt, those documents earn me 5 to 20 thousand dollars a shot, and I dont have time to deal with MS crap. I owned Office and I switched because OpenOffice worked better then Microsoft. Read the post.
2. GNOME is easier to use than KDE
Huge Myth. So much is missing in Gnome that it makes ones head spin. The reality is that its very easy to do nearly nothing in Gnome, whereas KDE has lots to configure, but actually does something for you.
"If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd all have said they wanted a faster horse." - Henry Ford. Forget the users, they dont have a clue. These are the same idiots who think they choose MS Windows, when really they just walked in a store and bought a computer and thats what was there. Its like asking the passengers on a ship how to navigate, when the job should be the Captains and crew. You are the professional, make an easy transition, work with them, but dont let them try and decide what they want. They dont know.
No thats where you are wrong. Office doesnt run circles around OO for all things. In large document creation and management (500 to 1000 pages) Writer and Calc work much better together then word and Excel. I would much rather (if forced to use a word processor....) use OpenOffice then MS.
The last thing you want people to do is create vba anyways, so bite the bullet and move them away while you can. If there is a need for something to be automated or software created, take the lead and do it as a project, not as a unmanaged piece of code on someones desktop.
Step one: convince me that powerpoint is a useful tool and has a place in business first.
Or are you just cherry-picking one of the (extremely few) GUI features Linux has that Windows doesn't have as some way of boosting your Linux-using cred?
Extremely few? And by Linux lets say Desktop Environment to be clear. There are many GUI features that the Linux desktop environment has that windows doesn't (although with windows 7 they are adding a lot already in KDE).
My netbook is 650 mhz with 512 megs. Dont be so sure. It is running KDE 3.5.9 and I should change it to 4.2 which consumes less resources then 3.5 did. Yes memory is cheap, but thats no reason for an OS to be wasteful. Does Microsoft write good code, or just a lot of it?
Install Debian. Ubuntu is such a catch 22. Seems easy at first, then you start shaking your head at it, things start to break, and the whole time its SLOW. Slow to install, slow to run, etc.
And to think they also KNEW they were using inferior parts that overheated and I see a pattern. If I were you I don't think I would go anywhere near Xbox number 3.
File extensions. Lol they are funny. Who would have thought an OS would use THAT to figure out what the data is and what to do with it? Nobody would ever do that would they?
Whats funny is that almost every computer I set up with dual boot, it takes me ages, sometimes months before I get around to setting up the windows side. Its just too annoying and time consuming, whereas the Linux side is already up and running right after install. Or at least is usable while I add packages, prefs and updates. How do people sit through all that rebooting and nagging EULA's, and drivers, and key entering....