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I'm ready to love Windows again: Why Microsoft is Cooking up a Winner in Windows 10
Business Insider ^ | 02/01/2015 | Steve Kovach

Posted on 02/02/2015 9:11:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind

I was a Windows user for most of my life.

My family's first computer, which we got in 1991, ran Windows 3.0 and didn't come with a modem. (I remember helping my dad install one a few months later. We signed up for a Prodigy account, and I spent countless hours playing MadMaze after that.)

From then on we were a Windows family. In 1995 we bought a PC with Windows 95 and AOL. In 2000 we got a Dell that we'd eventually upgrade to Windows XP.

It wasn't until I joined the school paper my sophomore year in high school that I tried a Mac for the first time. I didn't look back after that. I declared myself a Mac user for life.

This was shortly after Apple released OS X, the same operating system Macs still use today. It looked better than Windows. It didn't get hammered with viruses and malware like Windows. The programs were more powerful for designing and publishing our school paper. The first thing I did with the truckload of money I got for graduation was buy a PowerBook for college.

Over the past 11 years or so, I barely paid attention to Windows in my personal life. I reviewed a bunch of Windows laptops, but none of them thrilled me. And Windows seemed to be getting clunkier and more complicated, while OS X kept getting cleaner and easier to use.

Windows Vista was a disaster. Windows 7 was better, but it wasn't good enough to make me want to switch. Windows 8 was a mess, and I'd argue that it was a mistake for Microsoft to release it.

But Microsoft's new version of Windows, Windows 10, is different, and I think it's the beginning of a fresh start for Microsoft's flagship operating system.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: microsoft; windows10
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To: Lazamataz

Wait till you try out smoke signals - you won’t ever go back.


61 posted on 02/02/2015 9:50:44 AM PST by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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To: Lazamataz

62 posted on 02/02/2015 9:51:43 AM PST by Obadiah (Wind turbines, aka: bird choppers, cause earthquakes due to their harmonic frequencies.)
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To: Lazamataz

“I’m here to grunt to you: Language will be the start of the fall of mankind.”

God to Nimrod, Tower of Babel 7000BC


63 posted on 02/02/2015 9:58:20 AM PST by mdmathis6 ("trapped by hyenas, Bill had as much life expectancy as a glass table at a UVA Frat house party!/s)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ll wait until I find out how well it works on older equipment.


64 posted on 02/02/2015 10:03:17 AM PST by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: Lazamataz
I use OS/2 - no kidding! Only it's called eComStation.

eComStation

65 posted on 02/02/2015 10:09:04 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim ("Your apathy is their power." - Sarah Palin Jul 19, 2014)
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To: Fresh Wind
Real men use

copy con myProg.exe

66 posted on 02/02/2015 10:10:30 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim ("Your apathy is their power." - Sarah Palin Jul 19, 2014)
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To: circlecity

Reported free for windows 7 and 8 users


67 posted on 02/02/2015 10:14:17 AM PST by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: umgud

Sorry, 10 only sucks slightly less than 8/8.1.


68 posted on 02/02/2015 10:21:41 AM PST by KEVLAR (Liberty or Death)
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To: posterchild

I’m not sure Chromebook was available 5-7 years ago, or whenever I bought the computer.

Also, I had higher hopes for what Mom & Dad would do with a computer (bought a print / scan / fax gizmo; it’s never used).


69 posted on 02/02/2015 10:24:29 AM PST by Peter W. Kessler
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To: KEVLAR

commercials could say:

more gigs

less suckage


70 posted on 02/02/2015 10:25:19 AM PST by GeronL
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Before you are so quick to jump on the technical aspects of the EOL support site, understand that I was talking about the time from release to EOL. XP’s support was extended due to overwhelming demand. They won’t be doing that any more.


71 posted on 02/02/2015 10:28:06 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: SeekAndFind

When my HP Pavilion dies with its Windows 7 Premium and the latest piece of trash IE, I will go to the system below.

http://promos.asus.com/us/chrome-os/chromebox/

I got tired of waiting for my Comcast site to even sign on or down load or just to get on my bank’s site or Amazon or to stay on after I logged on.

So I asked a younger relative what to do.

His advice was to use Google Chrome instead of IE.

Instead of watching the maddening and ever lasting circle showing that I couldn’t log on to Comcast or Yahoo or AOL, Shabam, I was logged on in seconds to any of the above with Chrome.

Then, I tried logging on to my bank site to pay bills and zoom, I was there. It works with no problems.

Next, I went to Amazon and never had a problem even with their terrible Store Card. It works even better with my new Chase Amazon Card.

Every internet site I use or buy items on, Chrome works fast and quicker versus the seldom working IE/Windows 7 system.

Windows 7 is probably not the problem. It appears to be the IE with Windows 7.

My wife and I gave each other new Android phones for Christmas and I got an Android pad from relatives.

We both had gmail accts and that made the transition for the most part easy, quick and reliable. My wife has become a semi expert with her Alcatel Android Phone. She uses it for emails, texting, phones and to search the internet for weather, news and whatever. She has taken some incredible outdoor pictures with her new Android phone.

We had a little problem with transferring photos and downloading them with all 3 new Androids. That seems to be related to the latest KitKat OS.

The systems are fast, reliable and work well with our WiFI and on the 3G system outside our house.

Also, I don’t have to waste a lot of time downloading the latest MS/IE/BS several times a month. Chrome does its updates/downloads without the hassles.

So, when my HP Pavilion dies or shows signs of decaying, I will go to the following and gain more desk space while saving on electricity.

http://promos.asus.com/us/chrome-os/chromebox/

I have no direct investment with Google. We do own the ETF, TDIV, which invests in dividend paying tech stocks. MS is one of the stocks owned by TDIV as well as Google.


72 posted on 02/02/2015 10:28:58 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Will French, German & Belgians make anti-terror raids on our White House, AG Dept and Homeland Sec.?)
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To: SeekAndFind

I just want my icons back. I don’t care what they do internally, but I want it to look like Windows 7 when I start up my computer.


73 posted on 02/02/2015 10:30:38 AM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: eCSMaster

lol

OS2 still exists

wow


74 posted on 02/02/2015 10:33:08 AM PST by GeronL
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To: UB355

free for 1 year then its blue screen if you don’t pay up

ransomware!


75 posted on 02/02/2015 10:33:47 AM PST by GeronL
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To: Peter W. Kessler

did you hope to see a family newsletter? maybe they would launch a community shopper?

heh


76 posted on 02/02/2015 10:34:47 AM PST by GeronL
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t believe it, how is it possible that in a post about a Microsoft product there have been 73 responses without the forbidden fruit being mentioned( I refuse to be the one who does it).


77 posted on 02/02/2015 10:37:49 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Mastador1

It’s mentioned in the second and third paragraphs of the article.


78 posted on 02/02/2015 10:39:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

3.11, 98, XP, 7...

Now 10.

Pretty much every other version of Windows has been one step off from being outright malware.


79 posted on 02/02/2015 10:42:31 AM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: GeronL

Aw crap the paper tape tore, now I have to start this message all over again!


80 posted on 02/02/2015 10:48:58 AM PST by thinkthenpost
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