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Why Is the Surface So Bad?

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Re: Why Is the Surface So Bad?

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Post by lokedhs » Sat, Nov 10, 2012, 2:29 AM UTC

jkn wrote: post #88

vondur wrote: post #79

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Mac OSX was never hideous to look at. The interface may have been slow, but the multi-tasking on it was awesome at the time. I remember being able to play DVD's and browse the web and download large files at the time and the system never blinked, and no frames were ever dropped on the DVD playback. Regarding the Surface, the hardware is nice, and the software can fortunately be fixed. The question is will enough peop…

That is of course a matter of taste, but early OS X versions were very unappealing to me. Here's a screenshot of 10.3 (Panther): http://iindigo3d.com/macos/macosx103.jpg

So you prefer the way the calendar application looks now?

Re: Why Is the Surface So Bad?

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Post by krichman » Mon, Nov 12, 2012, 3:48 AM UTC

gurkendoktor wrote: post #87

krichman wrote: post #78

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IMO you still see people using XP because that was the peak. It was certainly better than Vista, I cannot give an unbiased review of Win 7.

I think XP might really have been the peak in usability, but under the hood, I can only guess that Windows 7 has gotten much more secure. After all, improving security is pretty much the only thing Microsoft has done between XP and Windows 7.

That's probably right, I know they have improved security greatly in the last few years.

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