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If you look around, can see that people do not buy what they need. They look for the latest and greatest...
The One Windows should enable Microsoft to lock customers in (at least that what they learned from Apple success)...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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If MS pushes ahead with the "everything through our equivalent of itunes" thing, they'll lose me to the arms of Linux.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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In a way, I feel that this direction was chosen way back when the launched Win95. There is no reason, except for having stupid ops, for having a shiny UI on a server. Have the OS run the show and stick a UI on top; rather than making the UI party of the OS.
While we're at it, can we have all "my [insert hardware/software preference] rocks and your's sucks" lined up against a wall and shot? I don't like Apple [tried it, didn't like it], M$ is getting on my moobs but still works and everytime I try and move to Ubunto I get lost and have a hissy fit. They're all good for somethings and do Paris impressions with others. Right tool for the job is my motto.
speramus in juniperus
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: While we're at it, can we have all "my [insert hardware/software preference] rocks and your's sucks" lined up against a wall and shot? Damned straight.
Having a preference is fine, but they all work, and other people are allowed to have preferences, too*.
* Unless they prefer iOS, of course.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yup.
The solution to an inferior operating system is to put a shell around it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I totally agree, there is no one OS that will serve every purpose although I do believe they can all play well together.
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Mike Hankey wrote: I do believe they can all play well together They can play well with each other, too. My home network has six different OSes involved in it, and I happily shunt files around between them, in very not-difficult-technical-stuff ways -- the most difficult operation technically is connecting progs on iOS through itunes.
If that's not proof enough that they don't all have to be the same, then I don't know what is.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yes they can all network together but wouldn't it be great if you wrote an app and it would run on any platform, without a lot of BS?
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Granted, and I would like to be all-Windows again, just for that reason, but they appear to be doing everything they can to push me away from that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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MS has there own agenda, they want to push us in a certain direction thinking it is for our own good without our input. Like most big businesses the bottom line has become more important than innovation.
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The thing is they could give each one it own interface and keep the same underlying code base. They just won't do it.
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I have been saying since Win 8 first came out (I saw the early pre-release) how utterly stupid it looked.
This is NOT an interface conducive to enterprise applications. It's poorly thought up and shows all of us that Microsoft learned NOTHING from the Vista fiasco.
The flat, 2D, pastel view of 'tiles' and 'charms' ('charms', really???) is just plain stupid.
I have bought a laptop and a PC since Win 8 came out and I brought them home and replaced them both with Win 7. I refuse to use it.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Agreed - big mistake.
/ravi
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Thought I would share[^]
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I assumed they would be overlooking this.[^]
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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or Welsh Parliment [^]
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Surprisingly unrocked by corruption allegations. There are four possibilities as far as I can see:
1) They aren't "proper" politicians. If true, this would upset them.
2) They are too stupid to work out how to build a trough and get their noses into it.
3) Nobody is offering them bribes to do things, because they can't actually do anything anyway.
4) There isn't enough money in the country for them to get at.
I suspect all of the above are true...
There is always the option that they are Honest and Clean Politicians - but even my keyboard rebelled when trying to type that...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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OriginalGriff wrote: There is always the option that they are Honest and Clean Politicians - but even
my keyboard rebelled when trying to type that...
That is like the Speed of light, we have all heard of it and fiction has achieved it but in the real world it is thoretical and unachievable in practice
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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They're all the same[^]
speramus in juniperus
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Surley not mad like this[^]?
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The building may be different, but those inside are all the same!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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True. But at least they're still delivering mail.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I don't think we've seen the end of it yet, they are very creative!
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