More love for Window ME than I would give.
Posted on 11/21/2014 1:41:49 PM PST by SeekAndFind
How much do YOU think this advanced operating environment is worth? WAIT just one minute before you answer...
Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Gotta love Steve Ballmer.
My office was recently forced to upgrade to Windows 7 due to MS no longer supporting XP. Ugh, one problem after another. I was basically unable to work for about two hours this morning while IT once again had to troubleshoot.
More love for Window ME than I would give.
Be thankful they gave you 7. lol
I loved XP. Actually, I enjoyed all versions except VISTA. VISTA was garbage.
I have XP, win7, win8.1, MacOSX and Linux Mint.
Linux Mint blows them all away, running on half the computer power. i.e. single processor vs dual. Linux wins!
Sent from my Linux Mint computer.
RE: Linux Mint blows them all away, running on half the computer power. i.e. single processor vs dual. Linux wins!
So, how can they make this more popular and capture market share from the hated death star — Microsoft?
Is that OS or POS?
29 years ago today I was selling VHS machines at a mall where my co-worker was taking COBOL classes. Had no idea what we were about to be in for.
RE: Is that OS or POS?
Both, depending on which OS you are a fan of.
Linux Mint support ends in 2019. Mint is supposedly the Linux OS that most closely resembles XP. It’s polished and FAST as H3LL.
Running a single 64bit AMD Athlon with only 2gb of ram, this system boots in 13 seconds. Firefox takes one-one-thousand (speaking) to open.
On a dual proc 64bit win pc, the above takes forever. I can’t tell you how much better Linux Mint is over any win OS. And I’ve used them all includine vista (UGH).
Imagine if I had equal hardware running Linux. It would probably be a blur.
Some people are afraid of computers. So I don’t think Linux’s DIY reputation will catch on with the majority of the population. I love it though. I was so sick and tired of waiting for windows. Everything, wait wait wait. And I keep my systems well maintained. With Linux, there’s no waiting. You click on something and it happens.
Microsoft’s strategy of making Windows backward compatible with older programs and compatible with virtually all PCs made it into the world’s most popular OS — while also burdening it with lots of code that is unnecessary for most users. And as any engineer will tell you, unnecessary complexity increases the chances for failure and breakdown. In sum, Windows’ faults are bound up with its virtues.
Hey, I still remember Dos and Lotus 123
I have a business where we use xp and xp versions of Adobe Indesign once a month. The last thing i want to do is upgrade to anything else because I only use the heavy duty programs once a month, but I’ll tell ya, xp and indesign have become slower and less cooperative every month.
With a Large Hat Tip to Dr. Ed Roberts— the Father of the personal computer. Dr. Roberts was the first employer of Bill Gates and Paul Allen— allowing their development of BASIC... the first product of Microsoft, developed while employees of Dr. Roberts— and for which they did not pay him near enough to take with them. That’s a fact folks. And the suckers knew it, too.
Ed Roberts was an AirForce crytographer, graduate electrical engineer and realized the dream of his life— he studied medicine and graduated medical school and practiced family medicine in rural Cochran, GA. He died in Macon GA hospital and guess who flew in separately to see him in their private jets.... Gates and Allen.
So the REAL story is Dr. Ed Roberts, an American hero and genius.
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