IE 7 made me switch from Firefox back to IE. Because it was available I used to use firefox 80% of the time, since IE7 was released Ive had no reason to use firefox unless some old website was not designed properly.
Mind you I do use Vista, therefore I am not sure if the Windows XP version of IE7 works as good, I cannot remember if I had issues with it or not. As an IT professional I have no issues with spyware/viruses regardless of the browser I use.
Even though Vista is slower then XP, takes 5 seconds to delete a desktop icons and has a bunch of other annoying features, its still better then a Linux distro:)
In my small town in Northern Ontario their is only one DSL provider. They provide 'ok' service, but I am a strong believer that competition makes any business or service better. There are currently 2 other small companies that offer a wireless service in my town and from what I have been told they are garbage and from a technicians point of view a nightmare to support. When the first one came out it did manage to drop the main service providers price, at least that is what I believed happened.
Why do either, Office is the most successful business application on the market and has been so for years. This article is just some OSS fanboy article. Why would the #1 (for most of the home pc industry age) software vendor need to change its methods?
The perfect design, the perfect programmers, the perfect product...Yada yada yada... Their are dozens of reasons company choose not to use Linux for business critical apps, this is just one of them
I am not saying VS is the best IDE out there, however Microsoft promotes programming on it's platforms and they really push hard to use Visual Studio to do it with. I find that visual Studio 'just works' which is a really strong selling point in this world.
I come froma different view, I started out on different languages (I was a big fan of Java) and have since moved onto C#.
Back before XP SP2, then IE 7.0, and now IE 7.0 on Vista I found Firefox a much better browser to use (more secure and user friendly). After the above improvments to IE I found myself using it again, basically IE has everything I need and firefox doesnt really offer anything it doesnt for regular web browsing. I still keep an old copy of firefox on my usb pen, I still find uses for the version of firefox that didnt need to be installed on the host machine.
Always copy the CD to the local harddrive when installing any office product (office 2003 seems to be better), otherwise you will get prompted to put in the CD from time to time with that annoying Windows Installer telling you something needs to be installed from a website.
I take it you have Vista at your Job were you can customize its configuration to let you do these things that I couldn't on a friends pre-installed consumer version of Vista. Actually they were all fresh upgrade installs for friends or HP workstations/notebooks right out of the box.
And I use a silent install/MST file and I only get prompted for the license key...
I have installed Office 2000 on at least 2 dozen Vista boxes. I have yet to have any issues with them. Either you are trying to use 3rd party applications with Office or you don't know how to install office (always copy the files to the hard drive before installing or install from a network share).
ISP shut down people all the time in Ontario. If your computer is infected badly it triggers some alerts on their end and the user gets a phone call, then I get a phone call asking me they have viruses...
I called the 1-800 number that Microsoft said to call, and went through all their steps to generate a new number, but it just told me that I was rejected and that my number was in fact really no good. I had no recourse, no appeal, no live body to talk to on the phone
Through that 1-800 number you can eventually make it to a person. You can then read off your 48 digit number and they will give you another 48-digit number. They will then ask you the same questions they ask everyone and you will be on your way. I often have to call this number for OEM workstations.
Who cares if they support it or not, they WILL HAVE to support is very shortly, probably within a few months of him starting school so save your money.
Vista is not all that hard to use. With a few clicks you can make all the menues look like XP and your off.
I am very pro MS, but they have known about this issue for over 3 months now, it has just been 1-2 weeks since people have published the issue publicly, provided proof of concept code and it has been used in malware/virus attacks.
So they could have had a patch released months ago and avoided all of this.
Vista has features built into it that makes use of un-used memory. Personally I have 2 gigs of ram and my system is usually using 40% of it while idling, it could be 99%, I could care less its not like I need it. I know you were making a joke about using 'so much' memory while doing nothing, but do your homework on how Vista makes use of unused memory.
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IE 7 made me switch from Firefox back to IE. Because it was available I used to use firefox 80% of the time, since IE7 was released Ive had no reason to use firefox unless some old website was not designed properly.
Mind you I do use Vista, therefore I am not sure if the Windows XP version of IE7 works as good, I cannot remember if I had issues with it or not. As an IT professional I have no issues with spyware/viruses regardless of the browser I use.
That makes no sense, what business line of workstations come with Office pre-installed? Home versions come with it, but not business versions.
Nearly two years? Betas for Vista have been around for 3-4 years.
Even though Vista is slower then XP, takes 5 seconds to delete a desktop icons and has a bunch of other annoying features, its still better then a Linux distro :)
In my small town in Northern Ontario their is only one DSL provider. They provide 'ok' service, but I am a strong believer that competition makes any business or service better. There are currently 2 other small companies that offer a wireless service in my town and from what I have been told they are garbage and from a technicians point of view a nightmare to support. When the first one came out it did manage to drop the main service providers price, at least that is what I believed happened.
Why do either, Office is the most successful business application on the market and has been so for years. This article is just some OSS fanboy article. Why would the #1 (for most of the home pc industry age) software vendor need to change its methods?
Just because Flash is good, it doesnt mean something cannot be better.
The perfect design, the perfect programmers, the perfect product...Yada yada yada... Their are dozens of reasons company choose not to use Linux for business critical apps, this is just one of them
I am not saying VS is the best IDE out there, however Microsoft promotes programming on it's platforms and they really push hard to use Visual Studio to do it with. I find that visual Studio 'just works' which is a really strong selling point in this world.
I come froma different view, I started out on different languages (I was a big fan of Java) and have since moved onto C#.
for people who develop for Windows, the Internet and smart devices using the Visual Studio IDE simply makes life easier.
Back before XP SP2, then IE 7.0, and now IE 7.0 on Vista I found Firefox a much better browser to use (more secure and user friendly). After the above improvments to IE I found myself using it again, basically IE has everything I need and firefox doesnt really offer anything it doesnt for regular web browsing. I still keep an old copy of firefox on my usb pen, I still find uses for the version of firefox that didnt need to be installed on the host machine.
whats the 'big' news about this?
looking at the home, business and web businesses Microsoft still seems like a leader to me, what world are you living in... lol
I take it you have Vista at your Job were you can customize its configuration to let you do these things that I couldn't on a friends pre-installed consumer version of Vista.
Actually they were all fresh upgrade installs for friends or HP workstations/notebooks right out of the box.
And I use a silent install/MST file and I only get prompted for the license key...
I have installed Office 2000 on at least 2 dozen Vista boxes. I have yet to have any issues with them. Either you are trying to use 3rd party applications with Office or you don't know how to install office (always copy the files to the hard drive before installing or install from a network share).
ISP shut down people all the time in Ontario. If your computer is infected badly it triggers some alerts on their end and the user gets a phone call, then I get a phone call asking me they have viruses...
Through that 1-800 number you can eventually make it to a person. You can then read off your 48 digit number and they will give you another 48-digit number. They will then ask you the same questions they ask everyone and you will be on your way. I often have to call this number for OEM workstations.
Office is the best spreedsheet, email and word processing platform on the market... Thats why.
No but his son will come home for Thanksgiving and ask his Dad why he was given an old computer when all his classmates are using new Vista machines.
Who cares if they support it or not, they WILL HAVE to support is very shortly, probably within a few months of him starting school so save your money.
Vista is not all that hard to use. With a few clicks you can make all the menues look like XP and your off.
Windows is a Operating system, how the hell can you compare those applications / languages to Windows for security issues?
The vulnerability can be exploited from emails and IE. Its not like you need to turn on a certain animated cursor to get hit.
I am very pro MS, but they have known about this issue for over 3 months now, it has just been 1-2 weeks since people have published the issue publicly, provided proof of concept code and it has been used in malware/virus attacks.
So they could have had a patch released months ago and avoided all of this.
Correct Vista tries to reduce hard drive i/o and more i/o on flash drives and RAM.
Vista has features built into it that makes use of un-used memory. Personally I have 2 gigs of ram and my system is usually using 40% of it while idling, it could be 99%, I could care less its not like I need it. I know you were making a joke about using 'so much' memory while doing nothing, but do your homework on how Vista makes use of unused memory.