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Win7 is OK, provided you reboot it regularly. If you dont you are screwed. Your list shows your origins. For me NT4 rocked and everything has been getting worse since! :)
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct from natural variation." Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville
Actually, I rarely reboot my Win7 box at home. Granted, I don't do much development on it... Just a lot of gaming. I never got into the NT line... And I wasn't going to trace the pattern all the way back to MSDOS 3, which was my first OS after my old Atari 800XL :)
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Having seen what other developers do to their machines and then complain about it's performance and reliability. I completely disagree. I've used all these OS's and heard all the complaints and it's always about change and people don't like it. I'm not excusing MS, but no one makes bug proof, perfect software here either.
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
You know, I have to agree with you for MOST cases, but I used Vista, and it really was garbage. I bought my latest desktop in the summer of last year (Or was it two years ago? My memory is horrible)... It was about 3-4 months before Win7 was due to release. I had planned on waiting, but I found a great deal that came with Vista and a free Win7 upgrade, so I jumped on it. So I used Vista on a brand new machine for a good 2-3 months before my Win7 upgrade arrived in the mail, and I hated it from five minutes after installing it. The UAC popups were a headache, I had things crashing left and right... It was just garbage. After a few days of messing around with it, I decided to keep my XP box as my primary machine, and just try to use the Vista one for gaming until Win7 came out. And Win7 did come out. And within a few hours of installing that, I realized how much better it was. Everything ran perfectly, and though there were a few glitches, there were no deal-breakers, so to speak. I immediately started migrating everything from my XP box, and shut the old machine down a few days later. The XP box is still taking up half of my desk, but I don't think I've turned it on since.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels) -
Having seen what other developers do to their machines and then complain about it's performance and reliability. I completely disagree. I've used all these OS's and heard all the complaints and it's always about change and people don't like it. I'm not excusing MS, but no one makes bug proof, perfect software here either.
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
Being a developer doesn't have anything to do with my rant, though I conceed you have a point. I do not like that Vista tries to guess what columns I want to see in a directory view. I want it the same everywhere. The windows explorer pre-vista was just perfect, I just wish it didn't change (call me old-fashioned).
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Win7 is OK, provided you reboot it regularly. If you dont you are screwed. Your list shows your origins. For me NT4 rocked and everything has been getting worse since! :)
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct from natural variation." Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville
I kinda liked 2000 myself it was NT but it did games.
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You know, I have to agree with you for MOST cases, but I used Vista, and it really was garbage. I bought my latest desktop in the summer of last year (Or was it two years ago? My memory is horrible)... It was about 3-4 months before Win7 was due to release. I had planned on waiting, but I found a great deal that came with Vista and a free Win7 upgrade, so I jumped on it. So I used Vista on a brand new machine for a good 2-3 months before my Win7 upgrade arrived in the mail, and I hated it from five minutes after installing it. The UAC popups were a headache, I had things crashing left and right... It was just garbage. After a few days of messing around with it, I decided to keep my XP box as my primary machine, and just try to use the Vista one for gaming until Win7 came out. And Win7 did come out. And within a few hours of installing that, I realized how much better it was. Everything ran perfectly, and though there were a few glitches, there were no deal-breakers, so to speak. I immediately started migrating everything from my XP box, and shut the old machine down a few days later. The XP box is still taking up half of my desk, but I don't think I've turned it on since.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)While I'm not in anyway going to defend the v-word don't you think that as developers we should call the latest version of windows by its true name and not its market name. Namely win 6.1
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I kinda liked 2000 myself it was NT but it did games.
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yeah, it did games and had USB, and thats the big bonus I have NT4 running on a 486 DX2 at home with 32 meg of ram. And its OK. Its a world away fomr the bloated crap that is vista and win7.
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct from natural variation." Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville
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Actually, I rarely reboot my Win7 box at home. Granted, I don't do much development on it... Just a lot of gaming. I never got into the NT line... And I wasn't going to trace the pattern all the way back to MSDOS 3, which was my first OS after my old Atari 800XL :)
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)I do a lot of dev, network stuff, debugging etc. after a few days it takes minutes just to refresh a shared netwrok folder Its horrid!
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct from natural variation." Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville
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While I'm not in anyway going to defend the v-word don't you think that as developers we should call the latest version of windows by its true name and not its market name. Namely win 6.1
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Its NT 6.1 really. Which is an insult to NT.
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct from natural variation." Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville
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While I'm not in anyway going to defend the v-word don't you think that as developers we should call the latest version of windows by its true name and not its market name. Namely win 6.1
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Oh, be nice... It's at least 6.22 :) And I still like calling it Weven, because that means the next one will be either "Weight" or "Wight" (Most commonly used in RPGs to refer to a type of undead creature). So we'd either laugh at how bloated "Weight" is, or make Pythonesque jokes about how "Wight" isn't quite dead yet... And then the next one would be "Wine", and that has 50% more jokes. And then "Wen" will be the next Duke Nukem Forever (Yeah, it's "expected" in 2011 - I'll believe it Wen I see it :) )
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
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