More love for Window ME than I would give.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dr. Ed Roberts story and his company that hired Gates et al.
Really an amazing story of a very smart man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Roberts_%28computer_engineer%29
Interesting, thanks. My first experience was installing a ripped-off copy of 3.1 from like 17 floppies.
Vista wasn’t all that bad, but I have switched to Macs anyway.
This treating of electronics and software as objects of love and desire is so creepy.
I remember Windows 1.0 was needed for (maybe even included in) Balance of Power. I blew up the world many, many times with it.
What about Bob?
Started with 2.0...
...something I tend to forget about it - it was on a disk (or a pile of disks), since my Zenith 286 did not have a hard drive.
Remember they days of pulling out a disk to run a program?
Good Lord, a platform flame at FR???
I am employed like a million others because of Windows. I do Help Desk support and I get paid pretty good. Thanks : )
The strangle hold that Windows has on every other operating system is the inclusion of DirectX.