CAVE WALLS ARE ALL THE COMPUTER ANYONE NEEDS.
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 ...
Seriously the Tandy Deskmate GUI was way ahead of it’s time! I resisted moving to copycat Windows 3.1 until Tandy collapsed.
CAVE WALLS ARE ALL THE COMPUTER ANYONE NEEDS.
Products Moving from Mainstream to Extended Support
Already happened on January 13, 2015.
What is this “Stick” technology of which you speak?
Me too. :-)
Before you get to giddy about the “free” upgrade from 7 and 8 you should know there was a conversation on here a couple of weeks ago that said once you get it installed that eventually one would have to pay a yearly licensing fee for patches and updates.
FWIW W10 is supposed to upgrade for “life.” MS claims it’s not a move toward a different business model...lease instead of buy...but it probably is. Like Office 365.
1.) Metro and the start are now one. Although I did not mind the two modes, integrating into one is nice
2.) Snapping metro tile on the desktop. In 8.1 you can buy an app that does this.. now you can.
3.) Virtual desktops, you can create different desktop themes. I haven't tried it, but I can imagine have a desk top for work application, a gaming desk top, then switch over to a social media theme desk top.
4.) Microsoft announced 10 is free for Windows 7,8 and 8.1 users
I program with patch cords, and it’s fine.
MS-DOS works for me.
Pah. Decadence. The last time I did a budget presentation at a council meeting, I waved my hands in the air and let the village elders imagine the PowerPoint slides and 3D transitions. (I was told they'd never seen better.)
Thank you!
I guess I’ll try to hang on to my equipment (desktop - laptop) for another five years.
I though XP was just fine, frankly.
I bought my Mom & Dad a computer quite a while back. It was a $300.00 loss leader. I found out why: It runs Vista. Oh well, Mom plays solitaire and sends / receives emails; that’s all. Vista works for those, but I wouldn’t want to try using something complicated!
I’ll take a look at Win10 at some point, and try to figure out the difference.
Thanks again!
What a bunch of old timers. You know we’ve moved on to the pdp 11 right?
Wait, you use LANGUAGE in your village???!?
Young upstart whippersnapper.
I'm here to grunt to you: Language will be the start of the fall of mankind.
Given her uses (assuming they were expected) why did you not go for a Chromebook?
Key word is eventually. TWiT and several other sources have debunked the lease model BUT you know at some point ...MS determined EOL cycle...users WILL have to pay for updates.
I’m trying to update from my Timex-Sinclair Zeon with 64k RAM to the MS Surface Pro 3.
Cannot stand the Pro 3. Can’t figure out how to move around the different screens or move icons to the main app screen, MS just can’t make things simple. The just can’t copy the iPAD functionality.
Pro 3 is getting returned today, piece of carp...AND they make you buy the keyboard. AND they make it seem the MS Office suite is a deal for $70 BUT that’s a SUBSCRIPTION for a year!!!
FUMS
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