Wasn't this the kind of hype vista got?
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Windows 7[^] Launched at CES. I wonder if we will all be sitting here in 6 months bemoaning the fallacies of the OS, wishing for the good old days. (Seems to be a preoccupation here) I remember the Hatred of XP, but now we all love it and want it to remain the standard for a few more years. (Most of us I think)
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Windows 7[^] Launched at CES. I wonder if we will all be sitting here in 6 months bemoaning the fallacies of the OS, wishing for the good old days. (Seems to be a preoccupation here) I remember the Hatred of XP, but now we all love it and want it to remain the standard for a few more years. (Most of us I think)
------------------------------------ "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion" Arthur C Clarke
well i guess, history really repeats itself..
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away Antoine de Saint-Exup'ery
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well i guess, history really repeats itself..
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away Antoine de Saint-Exup'ery
In ten years we will all be here making comments like 'Damn windows xxxxx, I remember old W7, that was great!' :-D
------------------------------------ "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion" Arthur C Clarke
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In ten years we will all be here making comments like 'Damn windows xxxxx, I remember old W7, that was great!' :-D
------------------------------------ "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion" Arthur C Clarke
Don't we all hate change? I think it's because when we get used to something we just set everything on automatic. When something new comes along, the automatic processes fail and we have to start thinking again. DJC
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In ten years we will all be here making comments like 'Damn windows xxxxx, I remember old W7, that was great!' :-D
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You bet! Though this will apply only to windows 98 and above since the older ones are so obsolete :-D
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away Antoine de Saint-Exup'ery
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You bet! Though this will apply only to windows 98 and above since the older ones are so obsolete :-D
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away Antoine de Saint-Exup'ery
How can you say something like that? aaahh.. the good ol' Windows 3.11 :)
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
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How can you say something like that? aaahh.. the good ol' Windows 3.11 :)
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
DOS 4.3! What a system, user hostile, kept the ungeekerly element off our systems, and taught you the benefit of batch files!
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Windows 7[^] Launched at CES. I wonder if we will all be sitting here in 6 months bemoaning the fallacies of the OS, wishing for the good old days. (Seems to be a preoccupation here) I remember the Hatred of XP, but now we all love it and want it to remain the standard for a few more years. (Most of us I think)
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Installation took an *hour*?! I can install Linux two or three times in that amount of time. From the cited article: "Essentially, this is the operating system Vista should have been" Well, DUH! *Anything MS comes up with right now would be closer to what Vista should have been. Hell, *Linux* is what Vista should have been. From the cited article: "it starts up relatively quickly, drivers already exist to make peripherals such as scanners and printers work with it, and it does clever things that XP, the version of Windows most people still use, just doesn’t." Starts "relatively" quickly? Who the hell *is* this guy? Of course drivers are already available. Windows 7 is nothing but Vista 1.2 - existing drivers better damn well work or MS will never hear the end of it. "Clever things that XP just doesn't do"? XP runs my development tools and ALL of the other software I have installed on my machine. How much more clever does it need to be *for me*? What a bunch of over-hyping uninformed CRAP!
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Windows 7[^] Launched at CES. I wonder if we will all be sitting here in 6 months bemoaning the fallacies of the OS, wishing for the good old days. (Seems to be a preoccupation here) I remember the Hatred of XP, but now we all love it and want it to remain the standard for a few more years. (Most of us I think)
------------------------------------ "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion" Arthur C Clarke
Dalek Dave wrote:
I remember the Hatred of XP, but now we all love it and want it to remain the standard for a few more years. (Most of us I think)
Maybe I wasn't old and cynical when XP came out but I remember being overjoyed that finally I had an OS on my laptop with the solidity of NT and all the friendly features of the 95 branch. I was using it from one of the late betas onwards and was always very happy with it. I'm sure the problem with Vista isn't that it's particularly bad, just that it isn't really much different. Russell
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DOS 4.3! What a system, user hostile, kept the ungeekerly element off our systems, and taught you the benefit of batch files!
------------------------------------ "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion" Arthur C Clarke
If thats what you like then go play with linux ;) *DISCLAIMER* I use both linux and windows day to day - I don't want to start another OS argument.
Richard Green
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Windows 7[^] Launched at CES. I wonder if we will all be sitting here in 6 months bemoaning the fallacies of the OS, wishing for the good old days. (Seems to be a preoccupation here) I remember the Hatred of XP, but now we all love it and want it to remain the standard for a few more years. (Most of us I think)
------------------------------------ "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion" Arthur C Clarke
Dalek Dave wrote:
I remember the Hatred of XP, but now we all love it and want it to remain the standard for a few more years. (Most of us I think)
I do as well... one of the few it seems. I even remember HERE at CP the yells of "You'll pry my Windows 98 from my cold dead fingers!" :-D I even remember who....
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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Windows 7[^] Launched at CES. I wonder if we will all be sitting here in 6 months bemoaning the fallacies of the OS, wishing for the good old days. (Seems to be a preoccupation here) I remember the Hatred of XP, but now we all love it and want it to remain the standard for a few more years. (Most of us I think)
------------------------------------ "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion" Arthur C Clarke
Dalek Dave wrote:
I remember the Hatred of XP, but now we all love it and want it to remain the standard for a few more years.
The hatred of Windows XP was becuase it has no useful features more than Window 2000, apart from the tellytuby interface. Then with SP1, SP2, SP3, it started supporting more hardware that 2000 didn't, so it became more relevant. It still has many irritating features that weren't in 2000, like searching through zips in file search
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Windows 7[^] Launched at CES. I wonder if we will all be sitting here in 6 months bemoaning the fallacies of the OS, wishing for the good old days. (Seems to be a preoccupation here) I remember the Hatred of XP, but now we all love it and want it to remain the standard for a few more years. (Most of us I think)
------------------------------------ "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion" Arthur C Clarke
Dalek Dave wrote:
Wasn't this the kind of hype vista got?
No, a lot of us dreaded Vista before it went gold. We could smell the shit a mile away.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
