Posted on 01/29/2019 1:03:45 PM PST by dayglored
If Microsoft would quit re-writing the same software over and over again (and charging us for it), and focus on new products, then we would probably have flying cars and hoverboards by now.
Also teleportation and time travel.
Use the “Linux Freedom” Mirror source. You will not be sorry you did.
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Lol... That’s a fact. And from my extensive experience, out of all applicants for the position they always choose the most ignorant, incompetent, inept person who applied. Preventing any potential threats to their own position maybe? Especially government employees.
Rose colored glasses for sure, but with tweaking and freeware it was much better. But no match for even XP, though if all you want to do is basics like word processing and open a (very few) web page, then it still work, if you had the drivers. I think I have a bunch of freeware for it. .
How many of those people actually exist outside of us politically engaged / gaming junkies that surf FR, play a few addicting games ALL THE FRIKKIN' TIME, and poke around whatever just interests us because it is the information highway ?
With multiple Firefox/Gecko browsers (such as one for mostly forums and research, another for shopping research, another for financial transactions, and over 300 tabs open, plus multiple documents, Bible programs, email client, etc. all running concurrently, then W/9x or any 32bit OS will do. Thank God for such tools and the means to have and use them. May it all be to His glory.
But some genius in Microsoft certainly thinks every one needs it and will pull our perfectly good OS to flood the market with useless (to us) crap.
Actually despite the bloat that needs to be removed after an install, the newer the OS then the safer it tends to be.
Is this the Daily Microsoft Bashing thread?
My goodness, “hell” is a vulgar word? What earth upon which do you live? How pure are you? I bet you don’t even say “dang”, a corruption of “damn”? Sure am glad you don’t live in my house...you’d have a heart attack and brain farts all the time. Then there would be no one to pull the tethers on our leashes. Sigh.
microsoft’s ridiculous policies of not allowing newer browsers to install on older OSes as well as making their failing P.O.S Edge browser their “flagship” is totally self-destructive ... ironic given that the original Microsoft browser drove Netscape out of business ... i guess what comes around, goes around ...
Sadly, the threads I post with positive or exciting news from Microsoft, about new products or their research projects, draw just as much ire from Windows users as the threads about flaws or other unpleasantness.
There was a time many years ago when I started this list, that there was a lot more good news to post, and Windows fans would get on the thread and chat about it. The negative comments were often from Mac or Linux fans.
But it seems that most of the harsh comments the past few years have been from Windows users (especially Win10) who are dissatisfied. The positive comments from Windows users are almost all from Win7 fans who speak of it in glowing terms.
As I’ve commented before, I think that Microsoft lost their way some years ago, mainly under Ballmer’s direction, and that they are finally starting to get the ship turned around. Also as I’ve said before, Microsoft has thousands of brilliant, talented technical employees, and there’s no technical reason for the lame stuff they do — the lameness is managerial and marketing driven, as I see it.
I truly hope they find their way and produce great stuff again.
Meanwhile, these threads do reflect the frustration of Windows users, but it’s my hope that in time the comments will go back to being more positive.
Meanwhile, I suspect Edge suffered/suffers from a large dose of NIH — Not Invented Here — Syndrome. Why in the world would Microsoft think that they could get away with their old trick of rolling their own version of a standard, and drag everybody over into it simply because they (still) own the desktop market?
Admitting that mistake and switching to the Chromium engine is a mighty big crow to chow down on, but it was the right decision.
Well, I've been using Word Perfect Suite 8 on all windows versions since it was new with no problems.
Microsoft made it that Office 97 would not load on Win7, but trusty old World Perfect did.
FWIW, I have had 0 problems with Windows 10, upgraded from Windows 8 on a Toshiba laptop. I did do the driver updates from Toshiba to move to 8.1 and then 10.
Well explained, because that is just about it in a nutshell. Everyone is just sick of their business practices.
Honestly... I was fine with win 7 and wouldn’t have even went looking for an alternative. But the very first time I used 10 I decided was not going to be extorted and played like an ignorant fool. I would quit computers all together if that’s all there was.
Internet Explorer 10 is a “browser” and not an OS.
Installed in a flash on a 6 year old Dell laptop and runs like a top. Have Windows 10 on a 3 year old laptop and it coughs, spits and hiccups non stop.
Fantastic! They finally have it down to a very fast and light comfortable familiar OS win 7 users can understand and use right away. I should have done it a couple years ago. I will now never have to deal with win 10 or MS BS again. :)
My goodness, “hell” is a vulgar word? N
o, Hell is a proper Biblical word for those who love darkness rather than light, (Jn. 3:19-21) and so reject Christ as their Lord and Savior. The Word at issue was the "F bomb" which used to be rare on FR but along with other coarse language seems to be increasing for years, paralleling the culture , and numerous threads have addressed it like Profanity: How small minds try to speak with strength?, and Vulgarity: the style of our days , and of late (12/18/2018)Jim Robinson has laid down the Reminder: No profanity, no racism, no personal attacks, no threats, no violence, etc. The use of such has been one the reasons for a thread being pulled
What earth upon which do you live? How pure are you? I bet you don’t even say “dang”, a corruption of “damn”?
What was being reproved here was the posting of it, and self-control is a fruit the Spirit, yet actually "dam" is also a proper word as in my tag line, but not as making it into God's last name. But while not using vulgarity own heart does need more reconditioning for Christ to fully be at home there.
Contending for the Truth does require forceful arguments, but which vulgar language is a no substitute for, and simply makes us more like the world and liberalism, and we shall give an account to Christ for every idle word.
New with the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, Microsoft's Your Phone app allows you to send and receive text messages from your phone or access all of its photos right from your desktop.
Thought this may be of interest.
I have Firefox 64.0.2 running on my home computer. They better resolve the occasional slowdown issues with the newly-release Firefox 65.0.
65 now? I’m still running 57- didn’t realize it had gone that high lol
They just released Firefox 65.0 on 29 January 2019.
i haven’t updated in awhile- when i tried, it changed the font on my search pages that made it harder to read- i couldn’t get it back- so i went to an earlier version of FF- and they dropped support for adblock in recent ones too from what i heard? I won’t surf without adblock plus-
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