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 From:  Mouse   20 Nov 2012 23:45 
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Bring a Statistician in here stat!

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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)   21 Nov 2012 14:19 
 To:  Mouse      189 of 432 
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He can count me both as liking Windows 7 and saying Windows 8 is shit.


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 From:  Dave!!   21 Nov 2012 21:31 
 To:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)      190 of 432 
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Vista flopped - and mainly because it was shite (cue a couple of people rising to defend it).

Let's face it, It wasn't radically different from XP from a user interface point of view (start menu, desktop, all "check"). Furthermore, there had been a wait of over 5 years since XP was released (longest in the history of Windows). The world was ready for a new version of Windows, just not for the sluggish, buggy and annoying turd that was Vista. And let's face it, it was Vista's crap reputation which sank it, not because everyone suddenly started praising XP as being the best thing since sliced bread!

For Windows 8, it's a different story. Windows 7 was only released 3 years ago and for some people, they've only just finished upgrading to it (especially for businesses). The need for a new version of Windows is less, and this is likely to affect adoption rates - regardless of how good or bad Windows 8 is. We've no plans to move to Windows 8 where I work, but that's mainly because I'm still busy removing the last straggling XP machines.
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)   21 Nov 2012 21:41 
 To:  Dave!!      191 of 432 
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(7 years between xp and vista)
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 From:  koswix   21 Nov 2012 21:42 
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So should Rendle upgrade me to Windows 8 for 15 quid?

 

 

 

                                                
                                                
                                                
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If Feds call you and say something bad on me, it may prove what I said are truth, they are afraid of it.
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 From:  patch   21 Nov 2012 22:37 
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Why not? The worst that happens is you downgrade again afterwards.
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 From:  koswix   21 Nov 2012 22:50 
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That's a pain in the arse, though.

Are there any features or capabilities that are indisputably better than Windows 7? Have they got that fancy new file system they've been going on about since Vista sorted yet?

 

 

 

                                                
                                                
                                                
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If Feds call you and say something bad on me, it may prove what I said are truth, they are afraid of it.
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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)   21 Nov 2012 23:05 
 To:  Dave!!      195 of 432 
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True enough, but the analogy between XP/Visa and W7/W8 still stands. Vista flopped not just because it was buggy, but because XP was good enough. In the case of W8 it's not necessarily bugginess that stands in its way but the UI or 'fear of the unknown'. And W7 is still good enough.

The disparity between XP and Vista may well be greater than that between W7 and W8 though, so yeah rock'n'roll.

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 From:  THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE)   22 Nov 2012 00:20 
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You can get Angry Birds: Star Wars for it in the Store. And Pinball FX 2. And it does start up and shut down very rapidly, and I really quite like the Start Screen, but you need to invest some time in learning keyboard shortcuts and that. Which you should anyway. Mouses are for WIMPs. LOL.

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 From:  THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE)   22 Nov 2012 00:25 
 To:  Dave!!      197 of 432 
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I think Windows 8 is not targeting the enterprise. Microsoft are well aware that Windows 7 either still is being, or has only recently been, rolled out in most large companies, achieving the aim of getting them off XP. So it's a good time to play catch-up in the consumer market, give OEMs a damn good reason to make PCs and devices with touch-screens, give developers a year or so to get to grips with WinRT and Metro and touch and all that, roll out half-yearly 8.x updates, and do Windows 9 some time in 2014 with a more convincing story for corporate customers.

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 From:  koswix   22 Nov 2012 00:41 
 To:  THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE)      198 of 432 
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Weakly interacting massive particles?

 

 

 

                                                
                                                
                                                
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If Feds call you and say something bad on me, it may prove what I said are truth, they are afraid of it.
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 From:  JonCooper   22 Nov 2012 01:08 
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achieving the aim of getting them off XP



just spent the evening fighting with the microsoft update site trying to get XP installed and updated




oh, and doing a quote on this post was real hard work, couldn't get my cursor out of the quote box
ended up doing the quote last
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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)   22 Nov 2012 08:51 
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quote: THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE)
Windows 9 some time in 2014 with a more convincing story for corporate customers.

Hopefully by then they'll have had time to do something truly innovative. Like adding an easily-accessed launchpad for applications, settings, etc. They could put it on a menu that's activated by a button. Say, in the lower left-hand corner of the screen. LOLZ.

There you go, Baldy Balmer, take it for nothing or do the honourable thing and pay me for my idea. Three brick good for you?

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 From:  Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ)   22 Nov 2012 09:16 
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Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer...
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 From:  THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE)   22 Nov 2012 11:49 
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It's more likely that general hand-wavery and sotto voce commands will be the order of the day. We're probably within 10 years of the end of screens of any sort, as long as we can get the neo-Luddites to embrace change instead of fighting it.

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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)   22 Nov 2012 12:20 
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That'll go down well in open-plan offices.

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 From:  graphitone   22 Nov 2012 12:26 
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)      204 of 432 
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HE'S TALKING ABOUT YOU!


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 From:  THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE)   22 Nov 2012 12:27 
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Why on earth would you need to go to an office?

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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)   22 Nov 2012 12:28 
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The Man demands it :(

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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)   22 Nov 2012 16:44 
 To:  Dave!!      207 of 432 
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While I agree that Vista was slow and sluggish, they made a huge change to the code that made it much more secure.  That caused all kinds of issues with devices not working and new drivers needing made (I know you already know this, just typing it anyway).  So I can forgive a lot of the issues with Vista because it was a very needed change in the right direction, especially for security.  8 is just a steaming pile of shit that they tried to polish, but they didn't wait until it was hard enough and now it's just smeared all over the place!


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