Posted on 04/06/2012 10:30:40 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Are you gonna ask us to remove your duplicate posts, again?
True — Windows 7 is the Utility Theory Of Work in a can. 1,000 times bigger, 1,000 times buggier, 1,000 times more frustrating.
It has become, like the worst package ever — Office 2010 — a necessary evil which is more evil than anything.
I ain’t a mac guy but if anything would drive me into the dead arms of Jobs, it is the latest incarnation of all the Windows products.
BTW: Gates wasn’t a visionary, we was a luck SOB who made one small decision that changed the landscape of PCs forever.
LOL! Just one of them, please.
I still have mine! Waiting for the American Pickers to stop by! : )
>>Are you gonna ask us to remove your duplicate posts, again?<<
He must be using the latest version of EI... ;)
Or IE, as the case may be...
A colleague had Win 1.5 or so. I loaded it. It didn’t do much. It was just an enhanced menuing system and was not very practical.
By 3.0, MS had convinced enough software companies to develop Windows versions that Windows became usable in a business environment.
My first real experience with it was about 1991.
A lot of nice software packages have come and gone over the decades. Some got bought out and the new owners just quit supporting them. Some, the developer went on to other things.
It’s this stupid network I’m on. It *never* duplicates a post when I’m at home, or on another network.
>>Waiting for the American Pickers to stop by!<<
Cover it in dust, bury it in a trashpile in your barn, put a sign on it and attach an old oil can. You’ll be rich!
>>It’s this stupid network I’m on. It *never* duplicates a post when I’m at home, or on another network.<<
That you know of... (hehehehe) :)
HaHa! I still use the Cardfile program that came with Win 3.1. Believe it or not it works fine on XP.
—Memmaker—
That brought back memories for me as well. I remember having to become a memory “expert” in order to get “Aces Over the Pacific” to run.
I hated Office 2010 when it first came out. I was stuck with it (at work) and learned how to use it. I absolutely love it now. The stuff I can do easily that was a challenge in the previous version of Word is legion.
I also import a lot of visio drawings into word document.
Next time you do it (with word 2010), try “paste special”, then choose “picture (enhanced Metafile)” and after it pastes, go to the picture tools format tab. Then chose the middle picture style (drop shadow rectangle). Where I work it is part of the secret to my success in documents. They love my stuff.
I occasionally use a version from the mid-Oughts. It's no contest. The older stuff is better.
"Running Windows 3.1 now is thought-provoking. Some aspects are impressive. The Microsoft Office software of the era – Word 2.0 and Excel 4.0 – is excellent. The speed and capability of Word 2.0 in just 4MB RAM is depressing: what have we done with all the storage and processing power that has come to us since?"I have often pondered over this precise thing. Just imagine how much faster all of our programs would be if they had maintained the super-compact, very tightly written code instead of allowing them to become "bloatware."
OMG I just remembered we have a US Logic 486/sx in the back room we bought in ‘92 from Tandy with that 3.1 in it, and it still runs fine. Mrs. RQSR used it for personal stuff.
Until now had forgotten about the danged thing as it’s buried under a bunch of junk (IMO), but don’t tell Mrs. RQSR I said that.
You know what??
I bet Windows 3.11 would blow away some modern Linux OS’s out there.
Anyone want to load up Windows 3 and see how it runs on a modern computer??
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