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Vista Is Good

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Re: Vista Is Good

#41

Post by eugenejen »

josefresco wrote: post #39
axod wrote: post #11

You don't win by being "good". You win by being outstanding. MS died and stopped being relevent to anything much a long while ago. What features does vista have that XP doesn't that are worthwhile? What is pushing people to upgrade? Nothing as far as I can see. Now you can buy PCs without an OS, and some very cool portables like the asus eeepc using linux, I'd expect MS dominance to take a major bashing over the next…

"MS died and stopped being relevent to anything much a long while ago" Is this 2020? It must be the future because MS has not died and is still very relevant. "Now you can buy PCs without an OS," How many non geeks do you know that bought one of these? I know 0. "The operating system is becoming irrelevent" Again this must be 2020 because the OS is still essential to almost 100% of computer users. "IE is nose diving…

For browser statistics http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp IE 7 is less than Firefox.

I found last year when I worked an Ajax project that when I replace DOM that contains images, IE 6/7 will load images twice. While Safari, Firefox and Opera all just load those images once. So if your managed servers have any program that replaces DOM on the fly that contains images, IE's usage in server log will be higher because IE wastes the bandwidth twice.

Re: Vista Is Good

#42

Post by jobeirne »

Vista's failure is most evident once you've used Ubuntu, which contains wheelbarrows full of innovation not incorporated into MS's effort, which is ironic because that's the software you're actually paying for.

Re: Vista Is Good

#43

Post by alex_c »

petercooper wrote: post #28

Why do nearly all of this guy's blog posts end up on the front page of HN? Sure, a couple have been good, but it strikes me as a little "odd" that he seems to be on here all the time. Group voting, or do random people really dig opinionated blog posts that much? Honest question.

Matt Maroon: I disagree with the rest of the world, and here's why.

Re: Vista Is Good

#44

Post by alex_c »

eugenejen wrote: post #41
josefresco wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"MS died and stopped being relevent to anything much a long while ago" Is this 2020? It must be the future because MS has not died and is still very relevant. "Now you can buy PCs without an OS," How many non geeks do you know that bought one of these? I know 0. "The operating system is becoming irrelevent" Again this must be 2020 because the OS is still essential to almost 100% of computer users. "IE is nose diving…

For browser statistics http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp IE 7 is less than Firefox. I found last year when I worked an Ajax project that when I replace DOM that contains images, IE 6/7 will load images twice. While Safari, Firefox and Opera all just load those images once. So if your managed servers have any program that replaces DOM on the fly that contains images, IE's usage in server log will be…

It's a site with web development tutorials. Of course Firefox has a strong presence.

Try stats from a less focused source:

http://www.thecounter.com/stats/

Re: Vista Is Good

#45

Post by ssharp »

It will be interesting to see what happens the next time Apple needs to drastically overhaul their language and how gracefully it gets handled. I think they did a decent job in handling "classic" applications.

Why can't Microsoft do the same thing? Abstract out support for old versions and build something concrete that can be expanded. OSX has been around since 2001 with steady improvements with each upgraded version. A lot has changed on the outside as well as under the hood but the same core architecture is still in place. Why? Because it works very well, is modular, and can be improved without a massive overhaul.

Re: Vista Is Good

#46

Post by jrockway »

mynameishere wrote: post #37
axod wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll "An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial and usually irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the intention of baiting other users into an emotional response or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion." I think quite a few of his blog posts fall int…

I think that it is impossible for someone to troll his own blog. I think that is is especially impossible to be a "troll" when someone else is posting entries from your own blog to a social news service. No, I don't think that qualifies.

I think that it is impossible for someone to troll his own blog.

It's possible. Instead of a comment trolling on a site, a blog is trolling on the Internet (or blogosphere, if you like that word).

Re: Vista Is Good

#47

Post by axod »

josefresco wrote: post #39
axod wrote: post #11

You don't win by being "good". You win by being outstanding. MS died and stopped being relevent to anything much a long while ago. What features does vista have that XP doesn't that are worthwhile? What is pushing people to upgrade? Nothing as far as I can see. Now you can buy PCs without an OS, and some very cool portables like the asus eeepc using linux, I'd expect MS dominance to take a major bashing over the next…

"MS died and stopped being relevent to anything much a long while ago" Is this 2020? It must be the future because MS has not died and is still very relevant. "Now you can buy PCs without an OS," How many non geeks do you know that bought one of these? I know 0. "The operating system is becoming irrelevent" Again this must be 2020 because the OS is still essential to almost 100% of computer users. "IE is nose diving…

--Is this 2020? It must be the future because MS has not died and is still very relevant.

My point, as has been made in the past, is that MS has not innovated for a good many years. No one is scared by MS any more. No one cares what they do. They aren't leading anything. They are simply trying to eke out their monopoly for all its worth.

No startup thinks "Oh no what if ms are developing a similar thing", because we all know they aren't.

I expect they could still turn it around, but they'd have to actually make things people want which isn't what they are used to. They are used to a monopoly.

Re: Vista Is Good

#48

Post by andreyf »

alex_c wrote: post #43
petercooper wrote: post #28

Why do nearly all of this guy's blog posts end up on the front page of HN? Sure, a couple have been good, but it strikes me as a little "odd" that he seems to be on here all the time. Group voting, or do random people really dig opinionated blog posts that much? Honest question.

Matt Maroon: I disagree with the rest of the world, and here's why.

I'd rather read an opinion which disagrees with the rest of the world than agrees with it, if only for the sake of novelty.

Re: Vista Is Good

#49

Post by andreyf »

Create wrote: post #21

DRM gives power to Microsoft and Big Media. * They decide which programs you can and can't use on your computer * They decide which features of your computer or software you can use at any given moment * They force you to install new programs even when you don't want to (and, of course, pay for the privilege) * They restrict your access to certain programs and even to your own data files Even when you legally buy Vis…

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