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Level42:
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--- Quote from: shmokes on February 08, 2009, 01:09:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: ark_ader on February 08, 2009, 10:56:00 am ---
Duh. M$ is trying to kill off XP thus my comment.
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Right . . . I mean, I say Windows 7 is great and thus must be on Microsoft's payroll. You respond with Windows XP being great. So who is paying you to say that? Exactly. ;D
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I read that a couple of times and it gave me a headache. :dizzy:
I have some M$ shares so it puts me well into their camp.
XP will live on forever as does NT4 and Windows 98.
I contract for some who still has NT4 Workstation on all their PCs. NT4 is rock solid and stable.
If it ain't broke..... 8)
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You know, my Atari 130XE, THAT was a rock-solid machine. The reason why I'm not using it anymore for day-to-day work is that it lacks the facilities that more modern systems offer.
With that mentality, we would still be using steam-engines. Or horses.
I must say that I find this thread amusing.
DaveMMR:
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on February 08, 2009, 07:27:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: richms on February 08, 2009, 07:16:20 pm ---I hate the taskbar. I intentionally resize my one on vista to 3 or 4 lines to avoid the grouping.
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I also prefer my tasks not to be grouped, but the way its described in windows 7, it sounds like it might be okay now.
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I like the way it is in Windows 7 because, frankly, it annoys the heck out of me having 15 million boxes taking up the taskbar, yet I don't want it to be any taller than it needs to be. With Windows 7, I just hovered on my IE8 icon and both tabs I have open appear in thumbnail, hover on it and it pops up briefly.
And I know this is incredibly stupid but I love the "rotating wallpaper" option. I'm one of those yahoos who can't decide on a background image even though it's something teenage girls, soccer moms and emo kids worry about.
But, for some reason, I can't get my computer rated. ??? Oh and I'm typing this on IE8 (running 64-bit Windows7 beta) and I don't line break automatically at the end of the box, only after it moves to the right once. Doesn't seem to affect the final output...
--- Quote from: orion on February 09, 2009, 08:37:27 am ---
--- Quote from: Blanka on February 08, 2009, 01:38:42 pm ---It's not good.
They should make 1 version: Windows 7 ultimate, and sell it for 129$ (Apple Leopard price) and make no strange impossible OEM licenses. Then it is good.
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I was reading an article somewhere (can't find it now, sorry) that said that Microsoft learned their lesson with vista and isn't going to release umteen versions of 7.
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I wouldn't mind if they just didn't release umpteen versions of the next Xbox.
Ummon:
--- Quote from: patrickl on February 08, 2009, 09:23:08 am ---I don't like these shiney, see through, animated hippy interface things though. The first thing I do is switch back to the Classic Windows interface. My computers all still look like they are running Win 95 :P So I might be missing out on a lot of cool features.
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Blech. I haven't liked Vista's stock settings, and don't prefer the look necessarily...but the day I saw XP ('02) was the day I thought, 'hey, finally they got rid of the old-fart programmer interface and made something that looks sophisticated - shoulda happened ten years ago'.
Cakemeister:
I use quick launch icons all the time. So Windows 7 unifies the quick launch toolbar with the running program toolbar. That would be a cool feature for me.
The only problems I ever had with any OS were getting old hardware to run on them. That's because I never change operating systems, new OSes are installed on blank hard drives.
I bought all new stuff when I built my son's Vista computer. It works fine, other than having to disinfect it regularly from all the trojans and malware he runs into.
delta88:
Are they trying to kill off Xp cause I have a volume Lic and have installed it on lord knows how many PC's around the house here and in the family??? I take it Vista and 7 nix this practice and make it 10x harder to carry out??? Thuds more money made from more per machine copies??? And BTW, it'll take a while to kill xp. Its do darn good and A LOT of machines are using XP now and finally losing 98. And when I say machines I mean machines and not office pc's ;) At least all of the digital medical equip I work with uses xp as the systems OS of choice :)
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