But "retail" (really, gold plated) versions cost much more than the "OEM" (really, retail consumer) version do.
People who buy computers that come with the "OEM" versions tend to be unlikely to install Windows on another computer anyway, since anytime they get a new computer, they get another copy of Windows with it. Your "needs" do not represent the majority of Windows "OEM" users.
The fact that you can download Ubuntu without paying a single cent for it is not a very compelling argument for Ubuntu. Case in point: at my university, we have subscriptions to the "MSDN Academic Alliance" which grants us no-cost downloads of various Microsoft products.
But I don't goto your university. That's only useful for people who are even at unviersity and have that "MSDN Academic Alliance". So it certainly is a compelling argument for me, and the majority of the planet that isn't in a university with a "MSDN Academic Alliance".
I'm curious why all these people who hated Vista are showering love on Windows 7.
My major gripe with Vista was games performing poorly, having a few heavy processes caused the system to perform poorly, pretty much poor performance all around.
On the same machine, where I had recently installed Vista. With the same drivers from Vista I install Windows 7, poof, problems gone away - I am certain it wasn't a driver issue.
I'm a UNIX guy, and I don't consider myself a Microsoft hater per se, the visual changes in Windows 7 just look hideous. I try and keep my screen as clean as possible to cut down on the distractions (meaning my windows machine looks about the same now as it did in 1995), and by this benchmark, Windows 7 is even worse than Vista with all its worthless gizmos and gadgets and stuff like that.
The taskbar? I just unpinned everything, set it to small and stuck what I regulary use in the bit that often shows recently, frequently used programs menu. Taskbar has more space now than ever before. More space than Win95 ever had.
Is it really so hard to understand that I don't want shit moving around on my screen when I'm trying to think?
No idea what you're talking about? If you're talking about graphics, like any modern *nix system's default setup (excluding OS X), you can disable effects if you don't like them.
The only problem with your funny but serious joke is the EU did steal a bunch of money from MS already, and will probably steal more.
I am suprised you call it "stealing" when they're trying to force a company into compliance. I remember when the EU was applying pressure on Microsoft by billing them the maximum they could (and after analysis, they found that the cost was nothing to Microsoft, trying to get the rates increased).
Meanwhile, the EU had a lot of pressure from the States to cease this action and the US government did have some limited success over this. Microsoft just kept releasing a lot of rubbish documentation in the meantime that has been stalling the EU for a while too.
The iPhone has an order of magnitude more games available for it than the DS.
My private DS game collection has 280 games, I stopped collecting DS games two years ago (and no, I'm not a Nintendo fan). That number was nowhere even close to the amount of DS games available at the time and I suspect since that number has definately increased numerous times over.
Unfortunately, google fails me at finding any concrete numbers of games released for the platform, which is why I can't quote you any numbers. I am skeptical that iPhone has more games available for it than the Nintendo DS even when ignoring the fact that the DS also has access to much older game libraries from the previous generation of portables.
Of course you're right about quality, but that's improving fast.
I know you're talking about computers, but there are now more games available for Apple's iPhone/iTouch than all the other handheld gaming devices combined.
I doubt the iPhone, iPod touch game libraries even reach near the quality and quantity of games on the DS, nevermind all portables combined.
The latest crop of Mac laptops pay a lot more attention to GPU issues
It didn't really help much in performance and Apple have yet to fix the numerous bugs in their OpenGL implementation that have existed for so many years, preventing cross-platform opengl code that works on Linux, Windows, BSDs, Solaris (even running on Mac hardware), but not OS X. Where on OS X, you can get the system entire to lock up, crash and various other annoying things.
Would be helpful if cross-platform opengl code that works on Windows, Linux, Solaris, BSDs etc. worked on OS X. Unfortunately, there are so many weird bugs on OS X related to graphics, it isn't even funny.
Why waste precious RAM loading a bunch of hooks & other junk for spreadsheets, powerpoints, and other programs I never use?
I have Microsoft Office 2007 installed (Access, Excel, Infopath, Powerpoint, Publisher, Word) and none of their "junk" is currently loaded into memory on my system, since I haven't started any of it.
Linux distributions include competitor products, provided they are FOSS. They won't have a anti-trust issue, no matter how big Linux distributions become - since they arn't preventing others from competing with their operating system.
You do realize, the list is so long, it's faster to google search every little element you use and see if there is a workaround.
Graceful degradation is another.
Graceful degradation never worked for me because the correct graceful way never worked for IE to begin with.
Such as recently, I tried to get checkboxes stylized as tabs using just CSS for a search bar - could not use javascript due to certain filters screwing up javascripts in some crappy software like norton internet security suite.
If it degraded properly with IE6, it would of been plain checkboxes, but no, it appears as unclickable stylized tabs.
Of course, then I had the IF IE tags, which wern't very helpful because the later versions of IE, despite the tags saying IE5 to IE6 only decided to use those tags so it looked horrible in the latest version of IE too.
My workaround for the problem was very unclean, tables (because of CSS positioning bugs that wouldn't work even with workarounds in IE6), images generated on the spot by PHP since the checkboxes had dynamically generated content.
Sorry, this is a mess and unacceptable. I don't want to touch IE anymore, period.
Almost all IE6 bugs have been thoroughly documented including fixes.
It doesn't support a lot things (CSS related) other browsers do, it has some really bad bugs and designing a website in the proper mannor of doing tihngs will not work with IE6. Period.
mc was a easy transition for me, I used to use norton commander under DOS. I just used my previous experience with Norton Commander and applied it to Midnight Commander.
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People who buy computers that come with the "OEM" versions tend to be unlikely to install Windows on another computer anyway, since anytime they get a new computer, they get another copy of Windows with it. Your "needs" do not represent the majority of Windows "OEM" users.
But I don't goto your university. That's only useful for people who are even at unviersity and have that "MSDN Academic Alliance". So it certainly is a compelling argument for me, and the majority of the planet that isn't in a university with a "MSDN Academic Alliance".
My major gripe with Vista was games performing poorly, having a few heavy processes caused the system to perform poorly, pretty much poor performance all around.
On the same machine, where I had recently installed Vista. With the same drivers from Vista I install Windows 7, poof, problems gone away - I am certain it wasn't a driver issue.
The taskbar? I just unpinned everything, set it to small and stuck what I regulary use in the bit that often shows recently, frequently used programs menu. Taskbar has more space now than ever before. More space than Win95 ever had.
No idea what you're talking about? If you're talking about graphics, like any modern *nix system's default setup (excluding OS X), you can disable effects if you don't like them.
I am suprised you call it "stealing" when they're trying to force a company into compliance. I remember when the EU was applying pressure on Microsoft by billing them the maximum they could (and after analysis, they found that the cost was nothing to Microsoft, trying to get the rates increased).
Meanwhile, the EU had a lot of pressure from the States to cease this action and the US government did have some limited success over this. Microsoft just kept releasing a lot of rubbish documentation in the meantime that has been stalling the EU for a while too.
My private DS game collection has 280 games, I stopped collecting DS games two years ago (and no, I'm not a Nintendo fan). That number was nowhere even close to the amount of DS games available at the time and I suspect since that number has definately increased numerous times over.
Unfortunately, google fails me at finding any concrete numbers of games released for the platform, which is why I can't quote you any numbers. I am skeptical that iPhone has more games available for it than the Nintendo DS even when ignoring the fact that the DS also has access to much older game libraries from the previous generation of portables.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Telecom industry runs smoothly? Where have you been?
I doubt the iPhone, iPod touch game libraries even reach near the quality and quantity of games on the DS, nevermind all portables combined.
The latest crop of Mac laptops pay a lot more attention to GPU issues
It didn't really help much in performance and Apple have yet to fix the numerous bugs in their OpenGL implementation that have existed for so many years, preventing cross-platform opengl code that works on Linux, Windows, BSDs, Solaris (even running on Mac hardware), but not OS X. Where on OS X, you can get the system entire to lock up, crash and various other annoying things.
Would be helpful if cross-platform opengl code that works on Windows, Linux, Solaris, BSDs etc. worked on OS X. Unfortunately, there are so many weird bugs on OS X related to graphics, it isn't even funny.
*Facepalm*
Okay, fine, "No! I want a officesuite to come with every system, like desktop Linux distributions do."
I have Microsoft Office 2007 installed (Access, Excel, Infopath, Powerpoint, Publisher, Word) and none of their "junk" is currently loaded into memory on my system, since I haven't started any of it.
It isn't legal
No! I want a officesuite to come with every system, like Linux does.
Linux distributions include competitor products, provided they are FOSS. They won't have a anti-trust issue, no matter how big Linux distributions become - since they arn't preventing others from competing with their operating system.
Microsoft, you have made the eeeooo very angry! And if you don't comply, we will write many angry letters to you, informing you of how angry we are!
Transparency didn't work in IE's PNG support for years.
I don't think you looked very hard.
PNG transparency actually.
In comparison, I find MP3 worse, it's not even a pronouncable word.
Thus, better than MP3. Case closed.
Most of my FLAC files are around 30MB.
Uncompressed some of my files reach 120MB. Using less space is desirable, losing quality, however is not.
I find it very useful actually.
You do realize, the list is so long, it's faster to google search every little element you use and see if there is a workaround.
Graceful degradation never worked for me because the correct graceful way never worked for IE to begin with.
Such as recently, I tried to get checkboxes stylized as tabs using just CSS for a search bar - could not use javascript due to certain filters screwing up javascripts in some crappy software like norton internet security suite.
If it degraded properly with IE6, it would of been plain checkboxes, but no, it appears as unclickable stylized tabs.
Of course, then I had the IF IE tags, which wern't very helpful because the later versions of IE, despite the tags saying IE5 to IE6 only decided to use those tags so it looked horrible in the latest version of IE too.
My workaround for the problem was very unclean, tables (because of CSS positioning bugs that wouldn't work even with workarounds in IE6), images generated on the spot by PHP since the checkboxes had dynamically generated content.
Sorry, this is a mess and unacceptable. I don't want to touch IE anymore, period.
Theres a problem with drivers? I can't recall ever having a driver issue on Linux for supported hardware.
It doesn't support a lot things (CSS related) other browsers do, it has some really bad bugs and designing a website in the proper mannor of doing tihngs will not work with IE6. Period.
Since when is mc installed by default on Linux distros?
It has syntax highlighting and a few other nifty features while being brain-dead simple.
mc was a easy transition for me, I used to use norton commander under DOS. I just used my previous experience with Norton Commander and applied it to Midnight Commander.