That was dumb. Now people have more reason to choose Linux-based Laptops.
Microsoft's Windows 7 Starter is a gift to Google
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Re: Microsoft's Windows 7 Starter is a gift to Google
#52As I commented a few days ago, Microsoft hasn't learned much from the Vista fiasco. Just deliver two versions already: a home one and a professional one. The Pro one would cost slightly more and offer more advanced features that the (average) home user won't care about. Limiting the number of applications you can run is an idiotic move. Foolish. There is no other way to put it, netbook with limited resources or not.…
I disagree with you for the same reason that Apple doesn't allow their OS to run on any hardware but their own. It's a user experience decision. I'm willing to believe that Microsoft put plenty of testing into Windows 7 on suboptimal hardware and determined that performance suffers with more than 3 applications open. I can't cite it at the moment but recall the Google study that compared user satisfaction with respon…
I'm not sure this makes sense. 1 heavyweight application can easily consume more juice than 10 lightweight ones.
Re: Microsoft's Windows 7 Starter is a gift to Google
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
It turns out that the vast majority of all IE sessions contain three or fewer tabs. That's only because tab management sucks when you put the tabs along the top of the screen, and the lack of organization means people feel obligated to close things out or re-use them rather than popping new tabs. Since I started using Tree Style Tabs in FF, I'm averaging somewhere around 50 tabs up at a time (of course, I don't even…
Majority of IE users are 'normal people', they just don't need 50 tabs for their tasks, they don't live in the internets
It is not just geeks who need to have a lot of abs open in their browser. There are a lot of jobs that involve gathering lots of information, and a lot of that (intranet as well as internet) is accessed through browsers there days. Add to that personal and work usage, amusement etc.