XP is still tolerable but gets it support removed this year
In my opinion, I think that XP is much better than Windows 7 in lots of ways. It runs much, much faster on the same hardware than Windows 7. When I recently had to switch to Windows 7 on my home server because I bought 3 TB drives (there's no way to get XP to work with 3 TB drives natively), I had to swap out computers entirely, because Windows 7 was such a dog on the same hardware. Even with a fancy new-ish PC running Windows 7, the performance is still rotten compared to my ancient PC running Windows XP, with the exact same functionality.
The difference with Windows 8 is that the whole idea of having a single interface for both tablets and desktops was wrong.
You're mostly right. But the idea is to have a single interface for tablets, computers and *phones*. I'm on my second Windows Phone, and the interface is the best in the industry (ie: better than i* and Android) for smart phones, as far as I'm concerned. That being said, I haven't spent any time with Windows 8 on a computer. I still use XP at work and home, for the most part.
Sounds like your IT staff needs some help. At my company, it's corporate policy to not reboot machines unless it's required for an update. Best of luck getting your IT issues fixed!!
You're the only person I've seen say anything nice about it, though.
You should do a bit more reading. Most people who actually use it like it quite a bit. Most of the very easy to find online reviews also say that it's a pretty darned good product, with quite a few saying it's better than i* and Android. I really like my Windows Phone (my second). That makes two people, if you're Google-phobic.
Nobody wants their phone to be as reliable as Windows. They want it to work 24x7x365
Welcome to 2013! You must be a time traveler from the late 1990's! Today, Windows is very stable, as is their phones. In the off chance that you're not a time traveler, you should consider working on your trolling skills.
If a product or service needs marketing, it's usually because there's little to no demand for that product or service. The most successful businesses grow with no marketing at all. If people want the product or service, they will find it.
It would simply be a service that most smaller companies would have to buy. There are lots and lots of other services small businesses have to buy because they're too small to do it in house. I don't know where people get the idea that commerce in modern society is done with pencil and paper and every online merchant is going to have to sit down and calculate thousands of numbers by hand. That's pretty darn silly.
The unfortunate but very real truth is that some people are not smart enough to run a business. Millions of people can and do calculate sales tax correctly every single day. Overcharging customers because of one's ineptitude is not a very good idea.
A "popular myth" that software is good at calculating and storing numbers? Computer software could very, very easily track many, many different tax jurisdictions. I don't know what you're talking about "maximizing profit".
Quickbooks costs $300 retail. It's called a "cost of doing business". There are many, many costs of doing business, including collecting and paying various taxes. Unless I'm mistaken, there's no right, in the US, at least, to be able to operate a business completely unencumbered by any cost other than the cost of goods sold.
I wouldn't say that no large businesses do that. I'd say that the successful ones do.
The cheapest price is always a losing game. If that's all you have, then the second you are undercut by somebody for whatever reason, you're pretty much finished. It's a simple idea, but it's proven to be largely true time after time.
A software company does the updating. Right now a company called Intuit updates all kinds of very complex payroll tax tables all across the US for the most popular small business accounting package, called Quickbooks. They've been doing it for at lease a decade. Works well. I don't understand why you'd think this would be an insurmountable problem.
You're not a customer that anybody wants. No business person in their right mind would lose any sleep over customers that have zero loyalty, and are just looking for the best price. That's Business 101, and it's absolutely true.
From what I understand, almost every large business today forces its employees to go through credit and drug tests. From what I understand, that's almost universal in the US now. I don't know any mom and pop businesses that do that.
It's about fucking time. Of course, most of the damage has already been done. Not only have many businesses been destroyed, but at this point, there are so many lazy people who feel entitled to have everything delivered to their door for free, that it's going to be a tough road back for many businesses.
You're right. I don't know anything. Running a multi-million dollar business via my phone is "nothing". Apparently, a phone today is pointless without a "Temple Run" app, whatever the fuck that is.
I don't know what "Temple Run" is. Sorry, I guess I misspoke. I use my phone for work, and it's got everything I need to work. It may not make the ultimate game machine, if that's what you're looking for.
You should check out some info on the phone, if you're interested. I'm not going to build a chart comparing and contrasting the different phone OS' for you. All I know is that looking at iPhone and Android phones, I see they've always got tons and tons of "apps" to do everything, in cluding different apps for email, messaging services, social stuff, etc. The Windows Phone has all of that built in. I've got access to everything I need on my phone with just a few buttons on the start page. The only "app" I've needed to install onto it was a free flashlight "app" from my phone manufacturer (HTC).
apparently because there are not enough apps there for Vertu's rich customers.
This was nowhere in the article, so I have to assume that the summary writer hasn't used a Windows Phone. Windows Phones don't need access to a bazillion apps, usually, because the phones do so much more out of the box than the other two big competitors. But, all of the major apps are certainly available. I guess if you need 500 different fart apps, then the Windows Phone may not be for you. I only counted about 30 in the Windows Phone app store.
I run a movie server in my house. I stream DVD quality movies all day, every day. 5 TB is 1 1/2 movies if I'm lucky. And, I'm not going to rely on the Net for streaming DVD quality movies.
I think that your summary dismissal of the idea was a bit rash.
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XP is still tolerable but gets it support removed this year
In my opinion, I think that XP is much better than Windows 7 in lots of ways. It runs much, much faster on the same hardware than Windows 7. When I recently had to switch to Windows 7 on my home server because I bought 3 TB drives (there's no way to get XP to work with 3 TB drives natively), I had to swap out computers entirely, because Windows 7 was such a dog on the same hardware. Even with a fancy new-ish PC running Windows 7, the performance is still rotten compared to my ancient PC running Windows XP, with the exact same functionality.
The difference with Windows 8 is that the whole idea of having a single interface for both tablets and desktops was wrong.
You're mostly right. But the idea is to have a single interface for tablets, computers and *phones*. I'm on my second Windows Phone, and the interface is the best in the industry (ie: better than i* and Android) for smart phones, as far as I'm concerned. That being said, I haven't spent any time with Windows 8 on a computer. I still use XP at work and home, for the most part.
Sounds like your IT staff needs some help. At my company, it's corporate policy to not reboot machines unless it's required for an update. Best of luck getting your IT issues fixed!!
You're the only person I've seen say anything nice about it, though.
You should do a bit more reading. Most people who actually use it like it quite a bit. Most of the very easy to find online reviews also say that it's a pretty darned good product, with quite a few saying it's better than i* and Android. I really like my Windows Phone (my second). That makes two people, if you're Google-phobic.
Nobody wants their phone to be as reliable as Windows. They want it to work 24x7x365
Welcome to 2013! You must be a time traveler from the late 1990's! Today, Windows is very stable, as is their phones. In the off chance that you're not a time traveler, you should consider working on your trolling skills.
My company's been on the Inc. 5000 for 3 years running with no marketing. It doesn't do anything particularly unique.
If a product or service needs marketing, it's usually because there's little to no demand for that product or service. The most successful businesses grow with no marketing at all. If people want the product or service, they will find it.
For instance don't only offer Windows's based notebooks, offer Linux as an option,
+1 Funny!
You should RTFA.
It would simply be a service that most smaller companies would have to buy. There are lots and lots of other services small businesses have to buy because they're too small to do it in house. I don't know where people get the idea that commerce in modern society is done with pencil and paper and every online merchant is going to have to sit down and calculate thousands of numbers by hand. That's pretty darn silly.
The unfortunate but very real truth is that some people are not smart enough to run a business. Millions of people can and do calculate sales tax correctly every single day. Overcharging customers because of one's ineptitude is not a very good idea.
A "popular myth" that software is good at calculating and storing numbers? Computer software could very, very easily track many, many different tax jurisdictions. I don't know what you're talking about "maximizing profit".
Quickbooks costs $300 retail. It's called a "cost of doing business". There are many, many costs of doing business, including collecting and paying various taxes. Unless I'm mistaken, there's no right, in the US, at least, to be able to operate a business completely unencumbered by any cost other than the cost of goods sold.
I wouldn't say that no large businesses do that. I'd say that the successful ones do.
The cheapest price is always a losing game. If that's all you have, then the second you are undercut by somebody for whatever reason, you're pretty much finished. It's a simple idea, but it's proven to be largely true time after time.
A software company does the updating. Right now a company called Intuit updates all kinds of very complex payroll tax tables all across the US for the most popular small business accounting package, called Quickbooks. They've been doing it for at lease a decade. Works well. I don't understand why you'd think this would be an insurmountable problem.
You're not a customer that anybody wants. No business person in their right mind would lose any sleep over customers that have zero loyalty, and are just looking for the best price. That's Business 101, and it's absolutely true.
From what I understand, almost every large business today forces its employees to go through credit and drug tests. From what I understand, that's almost universal in the US now. I don't know any mom and pop businesses that do that.
A. It's called a cost of doing business.
B. There's this stuff called "software" that is really good at tracking numbers automatically.
It's about fucking time. Of course, most of the damage has already been done. Not only have many businesses been destroyed, but at this point, there are so many lazy people who feel entitled to have everything delivered to their door for free, that it's going to be a tough road back for many businesses.
and out of the box wp does shit all nothing, i
You're right. I don't know anything. Running a multi-million dollar business via my phone is "nothing". Apparently, a phone today is pointless without a "Temple Run" app, whatever the fuck that is.
I don't know what "Temple Run" is. Sorry, I guess I misspoke. I use my phone for work, and it's got everything I need to work. It may not make the ultimate game machine, if that's what you're looking for.
You should check out some info on the phone, if you're interested. I'm not going to build a chart comparing and contrasting the different phone OS' for you. All I know is that looking at iPhone and Android phones, I see they've always got tons and tons of "apps" to do everything, in cluding different apps for email, messaging services, social stuff, etc. The Windows Phone has all of that built in. I've got access to everything I need on my phone with just a few buttons on the start page. The only "app" I've needed to install onto it was a free flashlight "app" from my phone manufacturer (HTC).
apparently because there are not enough apps there for Vertu's rich customers.
This was nowhere in the article, so I have to assume that the summary writer hasn't used a Windows Phone. Windows Phones don't need access to a bazillion apps, usually, because the phones do so much more out of the box than the other two big competitors. But, all of the major apps are certainly available. I guess if you need 500 different fart apps, then the Windows Phone may not be for you. I only counted about 30 in the Windows Phone app store.
Sounds like I was off by a factor of 1000 because I didn't have my Wheaties(tm) this morning.
Credit unions are much better than banks. They tend not to sell your information as readily as banks do. Credit unions are federally insured.
I run a movie server in my house. I stream DVD quality movies all day, every day. 5 TB is 1 1/2 movies if I'm lucky. And, I'm not going to rely on the Net for streaming DVD quality movies.
I think that your summary dismissal of the idea was a bit rash.