Your statement is not true. Vista was as bad as they say and worse. I fix computers for a living. I've been in the industry for over 25 years now. Vista deserved all the bad press it got and then some. Since Win7 is just Vista I don't think anything but some stability issues have been ironed out. I await the same type of screw ups that are endemic to Vista that Microsoft made with Vista on incoming machines that need repairs.
Dvorak is saying that there's really not a lot new. He's saying that Microsoft didn't bring into the fold those things they promised in Vista prior to the launch (all the interesting technologies they cut out). He's saying that Windows 7 is really just Vista with a few new eye-candy like things. Yes, it is a bit less resource hungry but even with all that the amount of performance gain is only about 5% over that of Vista, which goes unnoticed by the average user.
The feature sets that they added are not that significant and some of them aren't even based on Vista, instead they are based on add-ins such as WMP.
Technically, Dvorak is correct. It's just another run on the laundry where some of the more significant stains happened to come out.
Yes, there are almost always repositories that are made available for older versions of the OS for any given project. I've seen some come out faster than most distros that officially support a product.
Ask your instructors to use Open Office when viewing your document. And, in Office, there are issues with printer selection--that can make a document look different on two different computers.
Be mature, walk up to them, ask them for a moment of time, explain the situation with lock-in proprietary documents and explain about open source. Then ask that they give you the choice by using open office to view your papers.
I believe the GP is right. To say that is to exaggerate and therefor lacks credibility.
I understand you are trying to get a document that you can write in Open Office that looks right in word. That's laudable. But, why not just write it in word since you have word--unless you are purposefully trying to exaggerate? You might be best served by sending those documents to the programmers so they can see what you are getting at. Also, might it not be against your best interests to show others that you can't get open office to do what you want (considering so many of us can) while you are looking for work? Might want to spend some time learning Open Office better to show that you are competent at basic computer tasks such as editing documents.
Compatability is the issue across the board, even with other versions of the same product.
Here's an example. A friend's daughter was using the trial version of Office 2007. She'd created documents for school in it. The trial ran out. Her mother bought here Office 2003. They wanted that installed. I had to remove the Office 2007 and then install 2003. This went well. Once I installed Office 2003 I tried to open the Office 2007 files and of course couldn't. I had to obtain a filter which allowed her to open the documents and resave them as Office 2003.
Luckily her documents didn't contain an advanced formatting. Otherwise the transition wouldn't have gone so well.
The issue of which version of office you have has been there for years. It is just as difficult to deal with compatability in Office between versions as it is a 3rd party program trying to read documents created in office. As far as the latter goes Open Office is very good at doing so.
In the case of this guy's evaluation, well, they could easily have just moved everyone over to Open Office, set someone up to convert their old stuff (where necessary), and then lived happily saving themselves $20,000 (most likely that and more a year). I think what could have happened is akin to those things I saw in big business when I worked for large companies. They tend to take the path of least resistance even if it means more money in the long run. Their decision makers just couldn't get their arms around the realities of today's software and chose the one that might not be the best. Bottom line is that the fact that you are locked into Office due to compatibility issues and that is a serious hindrance to competition.
Let me just say this. I do all my work in Open Office and I don't have a compatibility issue.
Microsoft is currently being sued for the WGA program being installed without the knowledge of the end-user. It is, for all intents and purposes, classified as spyware, which is considered to be malware.
The scans are not fast, they are very slow, incredibly slow. I use this type of software day in and day out. I own and operate a small business where I do this every day, almost all day. This product is incredibly slow. It doesn't tell me what's happening as it scans other than to list the files it is scanning. It doesn't tell me what it's detected as it is scanning, like many other products.
I would have to say that any criticism of it is warranted. It is just a drop in replacement for windows defender. By itself it doesn't do very good, whereas combined with other products it can cover some of the bases missed by others.
This is utter bullshit. IE8 is in no way secure. Take it from someone that cleans malware off computers on a daily basis. IE8 is a waste of your time and energy. It is highly insecure and is such a problem that most malware authors don't even bat an eye.
Thank goodness there are so few Microsoft friends and family for them to influence. Seriously, how many people do they think their "friends and family" consist of? If the rest of the world recommends this why would Microsoft's voice have any bearing at all?
There are no incorporated pen capabilities in any OS of any significance that Microsoft creates. Not a one. Is there a cheap knock off that appeases the market? What you speak about is a non-product.
I don't believe that Courier exists. What I think is happening is that the tablet market is set to take off once Apple announces theirs. The Archos 5 and 7 are good products (though they could be a bit slimmer and maybe have higher resolutions).
Announcing vapor-ware products is what Microsoft has gained notoriety for in the 80s and 90s. They would announce a non-existent product in order to keep development from migrating away from their platform. A perfect example of this is what they did to Pen Computing.
In Pen's case Microsoft flattered them by asking for a technical demo. Pen was building up steam in the PR market and were demonstrating to everyone how useful their hand writing recognition and pen based OS would be to everyone, particularly to those collecting inventory, etc.
After the technical demo Microsoft announced that they'd be incorporating pen computing concepts into Windows. Today we have no pen computer elements in Windows. Most people felt that it was pointless to invest in Pen Computing products as long as those same capabilities were going to be integrated into Windows. Pen Computing ultimately died.
This is Microsoft doing the same thing. They have never been known for their stellar products in the mobile market. They are not innovative, as they copy other products rather than making something new for us all.
One thing that just struck me is that any tablet that has any worth should have the nVidia Ion technology. Imagine the world that would open up for tablet computing. Imagine being able to play your games on the train, and to switch to listen to music, watch a video, all controlled by touch/pen in tablet form. I think the Ion platform in a tablet form would be the ultimately killer platform.
Those comments are full of it. The least secure browser is IE. The least compliant browser is IE. Creating a substitute for users is a good thing. It brings choice. If they could complain about Chrome running in IE then they could make claims about Chrome outright. Greater standards compliance brings greater security and accelerates development of products that are OS independent, which creates opportunities outside of monopolistic practices.
Making this installable and usable under Win2k would go a long way to getting people to facilitate the move away from IE6. Firefox works but tends to slow down on lower end hardware. I tried it today and it didn't install. Maybe there's a way to make it work by manually copying files.
It is also untrue. Open Source contributors don't get to just add any old piece. The code is reviewed and when approved gets added. Don't misrepresent the nature of open source. Open Source development is the most elegant model, not the most kludgey.
Or until it is forked and made whole again..or pieces taken and incorporated into other projects....unlike proprietary code where it rarely sees the light of day once the project looses favor.
I don't see a project being redone to optimize in order to remove bloat happening on proprietary projects more than I see it on open source. That's a straw man.
Software development at the level of Linux and other OSes is done by professionals that adhere to professional conduct practices.
Because some project is done by individuals working as a team, be they paid or not or paid little or rewarded in other ways, isn't at issue here. These things are getting done. Every project has points where things can become super-sized and create cause for concern. It all works out. Really, the issue is whether it can be caught soon enough before it gets too large to be dealt with. I would think that the open source model is more likely to take care of large unweildy projects more than closed source where with closed source focus is trained on profits. Open source is focused on creativity and enhancement. There's always someone that knows they can do it better, faster, and smaller. Closed source doesn't always permit that. Projects are managed by people that often are not programmers and they create specifications that do not permit the programmer to creatively solve a problem and prepare for future enhancements.
What Linus was saying is that his home is getting bloated. His kids rooms are full of toys. His living room has so many gadgets that he can't find the right remote. His kitchen is so full of pots, pans and dishes that it is hard to put them all away. The point I'm making is that bloat is inevitable and that it will always occur no matter which environment you are in. It takes a good manager to recognize it and address it in such a way as to produce the desired result, which is to bring the collective consciousness back on track.
You make a false assumption that people need to be ordered to do things or they don't get done. Look at where Linux is and you can see that your assumption is false.
Not in my opinion. It is sufficiently advanced to have caught up with most of the features, especially those that we all use day in and day out. Sure there are esoteric feature sets that haven't been implemented, but not everyone wants them nor needs them.
He was trying to show that both organizations are efforting themselves into the realm of true businesses probably in hopes of gaining more corporate support and investment.
Look, Linux is nearing 100 million users world wide at this point. That's major. It also means that there's investment opportunity there. Zimbra has open source products and they were bought for a considerable sum. One of the SQL database products was also sold for a hefty sum. Those two remain open source. The possibility for these entities to reap some monetary reward is pretty great given the solid growth that Linux has achieved. It's no wonder they want to represent themselves in this manner. And if the adoption of standardized quarterly reporting is necessary then he's pointing out where some portion of their report is weak. I recognized that he spent too much time on the first part and so I skipped ahead to read the part that told me the purpose of the article.
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And your assessment is based on what factual information?
Your statement is not true. Vista was as bad as they say and worse. I fix computers for a living. I've been in the industry for over 25 years now. Vista deserved all the bad press it got and then some. Since Win7 is just Vista I don't think anything but some stability issues have been ironed out. I await the same type of screw ups that are endemic to Vista that Microsoft made with Vista on incoming machines that need repairs.
Dvorak is saying that there's really not a lot new. He's saying that Microsoft didn't bring into the fold those things they promised in Vista prior to the launch (all the interesting technologies they cut out). He's saying that Windows 7 is really just Vista with a few new eye-candy like things. Yes, it is a bit less resource hungry but even with all that the amount of performance gain is only about 5% over that of Vista, which goes unnoticed by the average user.
The feature sets that they added are not that significant and some of them aren't even based on Vista, instead they are based on add-ins such as WMP.
Technically, Dvorak is correct. It's just another run on the laundry where some of the more significant stains happened to come out.
Yes, there are almost always repositories that are made available for older versions of the OS for any given project. I've seen some come out faster than most distros that officially support a product.
Ask your instructors to use Open Office when viewing your document. And, in Office, there are issues with printer selection--that can make a document look different on two different computers.
Be mature, walk up to them, ask them for a moment of time, explain the situation with lock-in proprietary documents and explain about open source. Then ask that they give you the choice by using open office to view your papers.
Do it all in Open Office and stick with that. You'll be just fine. No duplication needed.
I believe the GP is right. To say that is to exaggerate and therefor lacks credibility.
I understand you are trying to get a document that you can write in Open Office that looks right in word. That's laudable. But, why not just write it in word since you have word--unless you are purposefully trying to exaggerate? You might be best served by sending those documents to the programmers so they can see what you are getting at. Also, might it not be against your best interests to show others that you can't get open office to do what you want (considering so many of us can) while you are looking for work? Might want to spend some time learning Open Office better to show that you are competent at basic computer tasks such as editing documents.
Compatability is the issue across the board, even with other versions of the same product.
Here's an example. A friend's daughter was using the trial version of Office 2007. She'd created documents for school in it. The trial ran out. Her mother bought here Office 2003. They wanted that installed. I had to remove the Office 2007 and then install 2003. This went well. Once I installed Office 2003 I tried to open the Office 2007 files and of course couldn't. I had to obtain a filter which allowed her to open the documents and resave them as Office 2003.
Luckily her documents didn't contain an advanced formatting. Otherwise the transition wouldn't have gone so well.
The issue of which version of office you have has been there for years. It is just as difficult to deal with compatability in Office between versions as it is a 3rd party program trying to read documents created in office. As far as the latter goes Open Office is very good at doing so.
In the case of this guy's evaluation, well, they could easily have just moved everyone over to Open Office, set someone up to convert their old stuff (where necessary), and then lived happily saving themselves $20,000 (most likely that and more a year). I think what could have happened is akin to those things I saw in big business when I worked for large companies. They tend to take the path of least resistance even if it means more money in the long run. Their decision makers just couldn't get their arms around the realities of today's software and chose the one that might not be the best. Bottom line is that the fact that you are locked into Office due to compatibility issues and that is a serious hindrance to competition.
Let me just say this. I do all my work in Open Office and I don't have a compatibility issue.
Security Essentials is essentially Windows Defender with a different interface and a few enhancements. That's pretty much it.
Microsoft is currently being sued for the WGA program being installed without the knowledge of the end-user. It is, for all intents and purposes, classified as spyware, which is considered to be malware.
The scans are not fast, they are very slow, incredibly slow. I use this type of software day in and day out. I own and operate a small business where I do this every day, almost all day. This product is incredibly slow. It doesn't tell me what's happening as it scans other than to list the files it is scanning. It doesn't tell me what it's detected as it is scanning, like many other products.
I would have to say that any criticism of it is warranted. It is just a drop in replacement for windows defender. By itself it doesn't do very good, whereas combined with other products it can cover some of the bases missed by others.
This is utter bullshit. IE8 is in no way secure. Take it from someone that cleans malware off computers on a daily basis. IE8 is a waste of your time and energy. It is highly insecure and is such a problem that most malware authors don't even bat an eye.
Thank goodness there are so few Microsoft friends and family for them to influence. Seriously, how many people do they think their "friends and family" consist of? If the rest of the world recommends this why would Microsoft's voice have any bearing at all?
There are no incorporated pen capabilities in any OS of any significance that Microsoft creates. Not a one. Is there a cheap knock off that appeases the market? What you speak about is a non-product.
I don't believe that Courier exists. What I think is happening is that the tablet market is set to take off once Apple announces theirs. The Archos 5 and 7 are good products (though they could be a bit slimmer and maybe have higher resolutions).
Announcing vapor-ware products is what Microsoft has gained notoriety for in the 80s and 90s. They would announce a non-existent product in order to keep development from migrating away from their platform. A perfect example of this is what they did to Pen Computing.
In Pen's case Microsoft flattered them by asking for a technical demo. Pen was building up steam in the PR market and were demonstrating to everyone how useful their hand writing recognition and pen based OS would be to everyone, particularly to those collecting inventory, etc.
After the technical demo Microsoft announced that they'd be incorporating pen computing concepts into Windows. Today we have no pen computer elements in Windows. Most people felt that it was pointless to invest in Pen Computing products as long as those same capabilities were going to be integrated into Windows. Pen Computing ultimately died.
This is Microsoft doing the same thing. They have never been known for their stellar products in the mobile market. They are not innovative, as they copy other products rather than making something new for us all.
One thing that just struck me is that any tablet that has any worth should have the nVidia Ion technology. Imagine the world that would open up for tablet computing. Imagine being able to play your games on the train, and to switch to listen to music, watch a video, all controlled by touch/pen in tablet form. I think the Ion platform in a tablet form would be the ultimately killer platform.
Those comments are full of it. The least secure browser is IE. The least compliant browser is IE. Creating a substitute for users is a good thing. It brings choice. If they could complain about Chrome running in IE then they could make claims about Chrome outright. Greater standards compliance brings greater security and accelerates development of products that are OS independent, which creates opportunities outside of monopolistic practices.
Making this installable and usable under Win2k would go a long way to getting people to facilitate the move away from IE6. Firefox works but tends to slow down on lower end hardware. I tried it today and it didn't install. Maybe there's a way to make it work by manually copying files.
Printer drivers were always optional. You just needed to say "no" during the install. They removed the powerpc elements and that's what shrunk it.
It is also untrue. Open Source contributors don't get to just add any old piece. The code is reviewed and when approved gets added. Don't misrepresent the nature of open source. Open Source development is the most elegant model, not the most kludgey.
Or until it is forked and made whole again..or pieces taken and incorporated into other projects....unlike proprietary code where it rarely sees the light of day once the project looses favor.
Apple removed the powerpc piece. That's why it is smaller.
I don't see a project being redone to optimize in order to remove bloat happening on proprietary projects more than I see it on open source. That's a straw man.
Software development at the level of Linux and other OSes is done by professionals that adhere to professional conduct practices.
Because some project is done by individuals working as a team, be they paid or not or paid little or rewarded in other ways, isn't at issue here. These things are getting done. Every project has points where things can become super-sized and create cause for concern. It all works out. Really, the issue is whether it can be caught soon enough before it gets too large to be dealt with. I would think that the open source model is more likely to take care of large unweildy projects more than closed source where with closed source focus is trained on profits. Open source is focused on creativity and enhancement. There's always someone that knows they can do it better, faster, and smaller. Closed source doesn't always permit that. Projects are managed by people that often are not programmers and they create specifications that do not permit the programmer to creatively solve a problem and prepare for future enhancements.
What Linus was saying is that his home is getting bloated. His kids rooms are full of toys. His living room has so many gadgets that he can't find the right remote. His kitchen is so full of pots, pans and dishes that it is hard to put them all away. The point I'm making is that bloat is inevitable and that it will always occur no matter which environment you are in. It takes a good manager to recognize it and address it in such a way as to produce the desired result, which is to bring the collective consciousness back on track.
You make a false assumption that people need to be ordered to do things or they don't get done. Look at where Linux is and you can see that your assumption is false.
Not in my opinion. It is sufficiently advanced to have caught up with most of the features, especially those that we all use day in and day out. Sure there are esoteric feature sets that haven't been implemented, but not everyone wants them nor needs them.
He was trying to show that both organizations are efforting themselves into the realm of true businesses probably in hopes of gaining more corporate support and investment.
Look, Linux is nearing 100 million users world wide at this point. That's major. It also means that there's investment opportunity there. Zimbra has open source products and they were bought for a considerable sum. One of the SQL database products was also sold for a hefty sum. Those two remain open source. The possibility for these entities to reap some monetary reward is pretty great given the solid growth that Linux has achieved. It's no wonder they want to represent themselves in this manner. And if the adoption of standardized quarterly reporting is necessary then he's pointing out where some portion of their report is weak. I recognized that he spent too much time on the first part and so I skipped ahead to read the part that told me the purpose of the article.