I hate Microsoft!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DaremoS

To the smart guys that repeat "I hate micro$oft" I'll tell you a short history, that surely they don't know:

Personal computers were invented by an USA company named IBM (surprisingly wasn't Apple!!!!) and by the prices these guys asked for their machine weren't personal at all, but for the commercial use by individuals supported by their company... let's say that with the price of an IBM PC you would buy around 50 or more of actual PCs.

By that time OS of those so called PC were made by some Gates & Jobs... for some time. Soon this guys realize the potential of a PC, and soon they made alliances with some manufacturers to build cheap machines were to put their SO... not depending on the hardware.

One of this guys choose to keep the basic idea of IBM and turned to be a company called Apple...

The other guy continue with his idea of develop an OS capable of run in cheap machines, this company turned to be called Microsoft.

Now, smart guys... you see how the history is:

IBM still is a big company far from the masses selling very expensive products surviving after lots of changes.

Apple is big company with good but expensive products, a bit far from the masses cause their products are bought by rich people. Lets say that is not a company for the 3rd world but only for developed countries.
In the last decades have reduce its prices to survive... but is still an expensive product.

Microsoft is the company that have made possible to the world to enjoy computers, reliable computers for the masses... also making Apple to put their good products at a more affordable prices.

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With of without your complains Windows is the OS for the masses, being capable to survive and getting rich despite of piracy and illegal actions... still creating and developing new products .
Nor Linux nor MAC-OS nor other paraphernalia are the OS that rules this world... Windows is.

If it were for IBM or Apple... Personal Computers would have never be a product for you to have without a big wallet.

So stop gargling against Microsoft and the richer person of the world... he simply have allow humankind to enjoy what a PC is today.

If a person do such contribution to us... doesn't deserve to be the most rich person of the world?

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DaremoS

Gosh... finally I found the trick... the installation have been already done!!! :D :D :D :D

mfb

You're not the only one hating Microsoft. I updated my BIOS last Friday, and yesterday found out that the new BIOS was compiled with the Microsoft asl-compiler. Result: the BIOS was SHIT and a part needed to be recompiled with the intel asl-compiler which does obey the standard and trips over every programming error.

Next to that, I have always hated microsoft, with their crappy OS and strange monopolistic tactics.

Lexridge

I am an IT Director for a large company, who uses Windows, OSX and Linux. Personally, I use, and prefer linux. Why anyone would ever pay big bucks to a company to beta test their buggy software is just plain ridiculous.

Lexridge

Robin

My 'Meizu M6 and all its bugs'-irony alarm just went off...

Th3_uN1Qu3

I hate M$ for the direction they've gone into. I still have the original CDs of windoze 95 OSR2 and 98SE that my dad bought when i had my first computer. I still use 98SE in VirtualPC for older apps and games that don't run under XP, and with Revolutions Pack 7 installed it looks better than vista and runs like a dream.

98SE was an OS worth buying. I'd buy an XP license, it would be worth it too. But vista? No way am i spending money on that piece of crap.

See, free software is best. VirtualPC is free. It is made by M$, but it does a great job in running even non-M$ operating systems. TinyXP Platinum 2 is distributed for free. eXPerience did a great job in ridding all the annoyances in XP, and making a lightning-fast and rock-solid OS. He also made a version of windoze server 2003 which is designed to run on regular computers, weighs in only 600MB installed, runs like a blaze and looks just like XP. Oh, and did i mention that although it's a 32-bit OS, you can use more than 3GB of RAM with Tiny 2003? His TinyVista is nice too, runs well and doesn't annoy you with a million notifications, but it still has that "laggy" feel.

eXPerience does a better job on tweaking windoze than the folks at M$ originally did, including a load of programs and useful tweaks in his releases. Some of them can even be used to strip down a full-blown installation. This again proves that software should be open-source and free.

michiel_hc

Have you ever used vista. I see a lot of people saying vista is bad but they never used vista.
I have a vista and I have no problems with it.

DaremoS

What you say is a big truth... but I recently bought a Vista Home whatever in a laptop... that works fine and without troubles... being a powerful Vaio last generation it's not so fast as expected... but works fine.

This until I try to share files with my domestic network... gosh!!!... I'll have to devote lots of time to make it work as it does all my family XPs... indeed is a safe machine... and that's its problem... and also is a new OS that... I have to learn.

New functions and new ways to to do known things requires time and knowledge... in this point this remain me the people that buy a sophisticated MP4 player and get disappointed because the device doesn't do thing like they want.

GUYS IS NOT THE MACHINE!!!... It's YOU that are dealing with a powerful devices and you DON'T KNOW how.

If is that your case... go for a expensive but limited Apple stuff.

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Err0r

^ I recently got a new laptop that runs on Vista Business. Some things are still buggy, but other elements are improved. Overall, I like it better than XP.

Th3_uN1Qu3

I dual-boot vista and XP. And 99% of the time i'm on XP - i have set the vista bootloader to load XP by default.

Most of my games crash in vista, while they run perfectly fine on XP. What is nice about vista is that it's smooth - but it's so smooth it gets laggy. I hate not being able to use the XP start menu, i hate that they moved things around that have been in the same place since windoze 95, and the search box they put EVERYWHERE is not an excuse for that. Why would i need to search around and find where vista puts my stuff when i can keep running XP that is also faster?

"Okay, but vista is more secure than XP!" I know what i am doing on the computer, and for me having to confirm three times a file deletion or a driver install isn't secure, it's just plain naggy. I think it's naggy for computer newbies as well.

Oh, and TinyVista came with User Account Control turned off, and i heard that's the part that gives the most nags. So even with this UAC thingy turned off and running as administrator at all times it still nags me asking to confirm actions that XP would just do without putting up any questions.

Now i can only imagine how it'd be to run vista under default privileges, answering a million nags, seeing that your programs just don't run to find out after a google that you gotta specify them to be run as administrator, then... "wait. what did i set the administrator password to???? Damn, now i have to reinstall."

I don't wanna find out how that feels.

I don't care about the apple stuff. I know every bit of XP's menus and a fair amount of registry and system files editing. If i have to run windoze 95 or 98, i get along with them beautifully (coz i've first started using a computer on windoze 95, but even someone who started with XP can find their way easily). Same goes for 2k, coz XP is an updated version of 2k.

Now we're supposed to forget all our ways of doing stuff under windoze and learn from scratch to be able to use vista? Okay, that search box they put everywhere is useful, but if i really feel like typing stuff in i open a freakin' command prompt.

And why in the world did they mess up the display properties panel that bad, i don't think i'm ever gonna understand.

The reason why doze became popular is coz it was EASY TO USE and INTUITIVE. Now people are used to it, and anyone who knows how to operate a computer can run windoze. You can't just go and rearrange things that have been in the same place for more than a decade.

At least if vista was faster than XP... But of course, it's not. And the whole DX10 being vista only thing is 100% marketing garbage.

98/XP for life.

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