Yeh Linux users are much better --> www.slashdot.org
The difference between Windows fanboys and Linux fanboys is that Windows is on top and will be at least for the next 5-10 years so they dont have to say much. Linux fanboys have to come up with theories has to why they should be #1
I am sorry, but I strongly believe 'normal' people have been tought to believe computers are complicated. If someone actually reads the dialog boxes that come up and pay attention to the warnings computers are very safe and easy to use... the fact is the 'normal' people are nervous when using computer, thus believe it they are complicated.
On the other hand, this is/has been my only real complaint for years. I use it exclusively, but then, I'm a geek.
This is the same with all Open Source applications. They work really well, however you have to be a geek/nerd to be able to use it properly. Sure normal users can make use of Open Source software, however it requires a nerd/geek to install it and support it.
This version is slower then Office 2007 (not to mention much less features) on my notebook running 2gig RAM, intel duo core T7200 2ghz.
IMO OpenOffice is just slow, I just keep up with the new releases so I can recommend it to home users who do not want to purchase office. As it stands now Office is a 1 time purchase, Office 97 is still faster and better then OpenOffice, so the free value of OpenOffice isnt much of a pushing point.
You fail to see reasons why they enter the market: To make money
You dont have to be #1 in a market to make a decent buck. Sure each company tries to become #1 in each market they compete in, however just because you are not doesnt mean you are not making a difference (competition is very good for innovation) and money.
Look at Linux and Apple desktops, they have a very low market share but they still make a decent buck for the companies that push their solutions.
Buy an HP with Linux or FreeDos instead of Windows.... Of course this is too complicated for Linux users as it will prevent you from complaining and crying, but it is worth a try.
Microsoft could open source all of its software and people like you still wouldnt be happy. Open Source software isnt the best way to do business, and Microsoft is in it for the money.
It is more noticable in XP then in Vista. It seems like every 2 weeks I am installing WGA, in Vista it must be happening in the background because I havent noticed anything yet.
How the hell did your company take the time to learn Linux to such a degree to be able to "modify the kernel code to fit your needs" and NOT know that it had to be shared...
Next question: What type of crappy consulting company do you work for? Just because you didnt work with Linux in the past doesnt mean you shouldn't have already had knowledge of it. We have dozens of clients, not one of them use Linux, and I still know a lot about it and other open source projects... Its your responsibility as a consulting company to about technology.
) There is NO WAY a single guy can run all those boxes. I'll defer to people who have been in this situation, but I suspect you'd need three guys to keep a hundred windows server farm from imploding.
With the power of Windows 2003 and Windows Xp it is very easy to manage a Windows Enviroment. The company I work for employs 3 people, 2 full time techs and 1 manager / tech. We support and resell IT equipment and are contracted by several hospitals and Mines. We currently have a client base of over 40 different and distinct clients with approx: 50 servers and 400 Windows clients (our largest client has a 4 Location WAN with over 120 clients and 10 servers.
We do 75% of our work remotely and have an excelent responce time.
Please do some research and then come back. Linux wouldnt reduce our workload, because of lack of support from vendors (OEM and Software vendors) it would actually increase our work / increase cost of the software for our clients.
I know no slashdoter wanted this (too much anti-ms in the air), but think of the bright side.
MS has the market by the balls with the only real competition being the WordPerfect suite...Personally I do not like it, but it is fairly widely used in School in Canada. Anything that allows Word documents to be a bit easier to convert to other formats is a good thing.
[quote]But at least with this event, those commercial tax packages better get a Linux version or lose market share. Not everyones tax is complicated enough to need an accountant.
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Why would you say that? How many software applications have lost major market share by not making a Linux version?
The easiest way to promote open source software would be for Dell to install OpenOffice on all their systems. This would cost them very little--no new OS to certify, no hardware to test, plus it wouldn't eat into their "crapware subsidy".
Think of what it means to remove Microsoft Office or Microsoft Works and install Open Office, it means decreased sales just to promote OO...Whats in it for Dell?
I knew my four-year-old PC might have trouble coping with Vista, not least because of its wheezing graphics card.
When I bought it, my Dell Dimension 8200 was fairly state-of-the-art (a few stats for the experts: Pentium 4 processor running at 2GHz, 384MB of RAM, a 64MB graphics card, and a Creative SB Live audio card).
Since then I had added memory (to 768MB), a second hard disk, extra USB ports and a Wifi card. I am not even going to bother reading anything else in the article. The first part of the article tells me everything that I need to know. 768MB of RAM / P4 2GHz... WTF did he expect?
Typical M$ exaggerations. Wireless Intel software is far superior. I find the WIndows XP wireless utility extremly easy to use and I have yet to have a problem with it since it fixed the issue with defaulting to unsecure connections.
Anything remotely associated with windows remote software was just an additional security risk, why don't you just install back orifice, and save the script kiddies the trouble. Can you explain how Remote desktop/assitance helps script kiddies connect to my workstations behind my corp firewalls? If they get behind my firewall remote features on the client workstations would be the last thing I would be worried about.
Yeh, I guess Wireless, VERY useful GPOs, Remote Assitance, IPSec, Remote Desktop, Firewall, improved event logs...etc means nothing to you.
I currently support networks with both XP and 2000, 2000 are by far much more difficult to manange them XP. By your statement I have to assume that you either don't manage multiple XP and 2000 workstations or you don't know about the added feature in Xp to make your life easier.
IPV6, Security, new deployment features and new GPOs don't save you money. It's a no brainer that Vista will be better then XP (once softwanre packages / hardware vendors fully support it).
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Yeh Linux users are much better --> www.slashdot.org
The difference between Windows fanboys and Linux fanboys is that Windows is on top and will be at least for the next 5-10 years so they dont have to say much. Linux fanboys have to come up with theories has to why they should be #1
I am sorry, but I strongly believe 'normal' people have been tought to believe computers are complicated. If someone actually reads the dialog boxes that come up and pay attention to the warnings computers are very safe and easy to use... the fact is the 'normal' people are nervous when using computer, thus believe it they are complicated.
This is the same with all Open Source applications. They work really well, however you have to be a geek/nerd to be able to use it properly. Sure normal users can make use of Open Source software, however it requires a nerd/geek to install it and support it.
This version is slower then Office 2007 (not to mention much less features) on my notebook running 2gig RAM, intel duo core T7200 2ghz.
IMO OpenOffice is just slow, I just keep up with the new releases so I can recommend it to home users who do not want to purchase office. As it stands now Office is a 1 time purchase, Office 97 is still faster and better then OpenOffice, so the free value of OpenOffice isnt much of a pushing point.
You fail to see reasons why they enter the market: To make money
You dont have to be #1 in a market to make a decent buck. Sure each company tries to become #1 in each market they compete in, however just because you are not doesnt mean you are not making a difference (competition is very good for innovation) and money.
Look at Linux and Apple desktops, they have a very low market share but they still make a decent buck for the companies that push their solutions.
Buy an HP with Linux or FreeDos instead of Windows....
Of course this is too complicated for Linux users as it will prevent you from complaining and crying, but it is worth a try.
Install VIsta and find out why it is much better then XP.
not hard to get. XP will be available on most business computers till the end of summer if not till the end of the year.
Yeh.. and it has nothing to do with the fact that MS has 95% of the market share and they havent had a new version in 5-6 years...
Microsoft could open source all of its software and people like you still wouldnt be happy. Open Source software isnt the best way to do business, and Microsoft is in it for the money.
Windows recommends doing the RAID 1 OS partition and RAID 5 data partition
It is more noticable in XP then in Vista. It seems like every 2 weeks I am installing WGA, in Vista it must be happening in the background because I havent noticed anything yet.
How the hell did your company take the time to learn Linux to such a degree to be able to "modify the kernel code to fit your needs" and NOT know that it had to be shared...
Next question: What type of crappy consulting company do you work for? Just because you didnt work with Linux in the past doesnt mean you shouldn't have already had knowledge of it. We have dozens of clients, not one of them use Linux, and I still know a lot about it and other open source projects... Its your responsibility as a consulting company to about technology.
With the power of Windows 2003 and Windows Xp it is very easy to manage a Windows Enviroment. The company I work for employs 3 people, 2 full time techs and 1 manager / tech. We support and resell IT equipment and are contracted by several hospitals and Mines. We currently have a client base of over 40 different and distinct clients with approx: 50 servers and 400 Windows clients (our largest client has a 4 Location WAN with over 120 clients and 10 servers.
We do 75% of our work remotely and have an excelent responce time.
Please do some research and then come back. Linux wouldnt reduce our workload, because of lack of support from vendors (OEM and Software vendors) it would actually increase our work / increase cost of the software for our clients.
Is this new format is worse then the .doc format how???
I know no slashdoter wanted this (too much anti-ms in the air), but think of the bright side.
MS has the market by the balls with the only real competition being the WordPerfect suite...Personally I do not like it, but it is fairly widely used in School in Canada. Anything that allows Word documents to be a bit easier to convert to other formats is a good thing.
Purchase an HP then, Ubuntu already offeres all the drivers for their notebooks and desktops.
[quote]But at least with this event, those commercial tax packages better get a Linux version or lose market share. Not everyones tax is complicated enough to need an accountant. [/quote]
Why would you say that? How many software applications have lost major market share by not making a Linux version?
Think of what it means to remove Microsoft Office or Microsoft Works and install Open Office, it means decreased sales just to promote OO...Whats in it for Dell?
Those where some funny videos, the Music one hit the nail on the head :)
Lol, Random Troll spam
When I bought it, my Dell Dimension 8200 was fairly state-of-the-art (a few stats for the experts: Pentium 4 processor running at 2GHz, 384MB of RAM, a 64MB graphics card, and a Creative SB Live audio card).
Since then I had added memory (to 768MB), a second hard disk, extra USB ports and a Wifi card. I am not even going to bother reading anything else in the article. The first part of the article tells me everything that I need to know. 768MB of RAM / P4 2GHz... WTF did he expect?
I find the WIndows XP wireless utility extremly easy to use and I have yet to have a problem with it since it fixed the issue with defaulting to unsecure connections.
Anything remotely associated with windows remote software was just an additional security risk, why don't you just install back orifice, and save the script kiddies the trouble. Can you explain how Remote desktop/assitance helps script kiddies connect to my workstations behind my corp firewalls? If they get behind my firewall remote features on the client workstations would be the last thing I would be worried about.
Yeh, I guess Wireless, VERY useful GPOs, Remote Assitance, IPSec, Remote Desktop, Firewall, improved event logs...etc means nothing to you.
I currently support networks with both XP and 2000, 2000 are by far much more difficult to manange them XP. By your statement I have to assume that you either don't manage multiple XP and 2000 workstations or you don't know about the added feature in Xp to make your life easier.
IPV6, Security, new deployment features and new GPOs don't save you money. It's a no brainer that Vista will be better then XP (once softwanre packages / hardware vendors fully support it).