Windows 7

You guys need to get with the Microsoft public awareness program. . . "Vista never happened, Vista never happened".
 
Mac all the way since 1984 - I was forced to work with window based platforms when I was a Technology specialist for Citrus County School District.

What a pleasure it was to come home to a real machine.... :rofl: :wave:
 
I just had problems 'finding' things on Vista. Upgrading all my machines to Windows 7 at somepoint. Already did the 64 bit upgrade on the music studio computer and it works like a champ. Things just seem easier to find.

Not sure what they did with Vista, but seemed like they wanted something 'different', and they got it, and it stunk!
 
I just had problems 'finding' things on Vista. Upgrading all my machines to Windows 7 at somepoint. Already did the 64 bit upgrade on the music studio computer and it works like a champ. Things just seem easier to find.

Not sure what they did with Vista, but seemed like they wanted something 'different', and they got it, and it stunk!

Ha, I thought that is why they created Windows ME... :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
 
Ha, I thought that is why they created Windows ME... :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
looks pretty solid. I remember when win dos came out I tried to stay away since i was still stuck in the DOS wiorld after being forced to abandon CPM but he you can't fight city hall.

Oh and BTW I had the opportunity to try the early apples too. B4 they stole the gui interface fronm Zerox. It sucked pretty bad.
 
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looks pretty solid. I remember when win dos came out I tried to stay away since i was still stuck in the DOS wiorld after being forced to abandon CPM but he you can't fight city hall.

Oh and BTW I had the opportunity to try the early apples too. B4 they stole the gui interface fronm Zerox. It sucked pretty bad.

Somewhat true! But the real truth is Billy Gates stole the GUI from Apple. Read the history -- Mac Cult... rules... :rofl::rofl:

In the recent news an upper manager from Microsoft said (and got in trouble for saying it) that they were still trying to give windows the look an feel of the Mac OSX.

The quote was ""One of the things that people say an awful lot about the Apple Mac is that the OS is fantastic, that it's very graphical and easy to use. What we've tried to do with Windows 7 – whether it's traditional format or in a touch format – is create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphics.""

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/111209-microsoft-windows-7-mimics-mac.html
 
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Somewhat true!

The original GUI interface was on the Xerox Rainbow. Every time I hear a Mac freak talking about windows copying the apple I remembert where it all started. I started out writing apps with a 6800 moved UP to the 8800 and the Z80 while the motorla tends to be more graphics friendly the intell design is better suited for the office environment. Jobs did a great job of marketing the computer to the academic world by donating machines to the schools but Intell choose to persue the business enviroment.
If I were doing business in an enviroment where I required heavy graphics I'd choose the motorla family but since I do business applications I choose to stay in the intel world. Like my Dad used to say we all have opionions and they are like some other part of the anatomy... everyone has one.
 
Yes Xerox was where it started -- They did not pursue what they had -- their research wasted ..

I remember well when Jobs and crew visited Xerox and took home what they saw. Then they hired Billy Gates to help bring the OS to market and Billy DID take what they wanted and the OS war started.

I also get tired of the wannabes living in an quasi truth from the past. It does not matter how it all happened -- back when.. Lets just look at the best OS available today --

The consortium of IBM, Apple, Motorola fell apart when progress on the 6800 stalled and IBM and Apple pulled out. Motorola then was too slow with bringing renditions to fruition and Mac (Apple) moved to Intel.

I will not post anymore about the Mac -- we just have our own truths and lets just be friends and go on with our own view of history that is well documented.

I will let the snide remark "Every time I hear a Mac freak talking about windows copying the apple" pass!
Side note: I did own an Amiga -- The GUI OS put windows to shame..
 
Oh heck, I run a linux system and am happy as a penguin. I do like the banter about windoze and such. I do run a dual boot with winxp on the other drive and thats just so I can use some technical and business apps. I hate winxp and have had to do a complete re-install 3 times and that's in a world were I use it only 1-2% of the time and go online with it .0005% of the time.

My impression is that the only view "vista" gives you is the underbelly of a pig. :D:rofl::rofl:

I hope the new windoz 7 is a better product. It would be a change of pace to actually sell something where you don't use the public as your testing and reliability lab. Imagine if we sold cars that way!:eek:
 
Got a new laptop a coupla weeks ago (early christmas present:D) and it came with windows 7. Now I got ride of vist on mu previous machine but figured I'd give windows 7 a chance. So far it apears to be rock solid.:thumb:

Don,
My son is a computer guru with a division of IBM... he grew up on a computer.. he burned through two commodore 64's by the time he was 13, went to the commodore D until he finished high school, then when the army dropped his computer and broke it, he switched to the PC's... he wrote and sold a search program just before Napster got in trouble for a little over a 1/3 of $1M... he worked for a company that was supposed to fix the Y2K problem for all the gov. computers.. Y2K never happened... anyway, he is now customer interface manager for one of IBM's division... he says that Windows 7 is the best program Microsoft has come out with todate... only thing that works better is LINUX... he does most of his software work in something called Ubuntu, but has W7 for his home computers because of his gaming and speaks very favorably of the OS.

Funny thing, he says that W7 is actually based on Vista, but cleans up all of Vista's mistakes.
 
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