Windows 7 has been out and about for little over a week now, and as it turns out, Microsoft's new baby is doing relatively well. That is, according to the figures by NetApplications: Windows 7 already reached the 3% mark this weekend, and is already closing in on the 4% mark.
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Member since:2006-01-06
- Take Netbook out of box
- Plug it in
- Turn it on
- Everything works
- Connect to corporate MS Exchange server for mail & calendar. FAIL.
- Run a decent post-1995 game. FAIL.
- Sync iPod/iPhone with iTunes. FAIL.
- Run Quicken. FAIL.
Oh, yeah ... everything "works"... unless you try to do something that's easily accomplished on a Mac or Windows.
Member since:2006-02-15
I know I shouldn't reply to an obvious troll, but I just so much dislike baseless FUD being spread around...
Connect to corporate MS Exchange server for mail & calendar. FAIL.
Atleast Evolution does sync with MS Exchange servers. I don't know about the other mail clients as I haven't tried any of them.
Run a decent post-1995 game. FAIL
Gee, there's quite a few post-1995 games listed on WineHQ which all seem to work just peachy.
Sync iPod/iPhone with iTunes. FAIL.
iTunes doesn't seem to work too well, but atleast Rhythmbox does sync with those.
Run Quicken. FAIL.
Quicken does actually work. http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=107
Member since:2009-02-19
Wait, you mean Microsoft's software doesn't run unmodified on a different operating system? OH MY GOD! THAT'S INSANE! Clearly, every operating system should run every binary for every program compiled for every other operating system! I mean, obviously!
And it's totally the same for Mac OS X and Windows, right? I mean, people can just take the Amarok binaries from any random Linux distro and run them on Windows Vista's thorough, installed-by-default and foolproof POSIX compatability layer, right? Happens all the time! Surely, Linux distros are the only OS's on the planet that can't run any arbitrary damned binary image you hand them, regardless of its OS target.
Seriously, not that Linux is perfect, it obviously isn't, but it's just in no way a reasonable expectation to be able to take software written for Windows and run it (unmodified!) on Linux. That's crazy. Before WINE, nobody would've complained the Windows software didn't run on Linux, because nobody would've considered that a reasonable expectation in the first place. Moving to a different OS logically means being prepared to use different software. If you're locked in to a particular software package that isn't available on another OS, then don't you clearly can't change your OS platform -- but the absence of that software package on other OS's is not a flaw in those other OS's!
It makes about as much sense as if I tried to claim that OS X was garbage because I couldn't run Steam on it. Or, like I say, Amarok. It's just not a reasonable expectation in the first place: nobody expects every OS to have loaders and call-translation-layers for everybody else's binaries.
Member since:2005-07-02
Actually, I have no problem connecting to Exchange. Tomcat FAIL.
No one in their right mind would play games on a Netbook anyway. As a video games designer, I play on consoles, that's where it's at anyway. Tomcat FAIL.
Who cares about iTunes? I sync my iPod with Banshee (or Amarok, it's still a toss-up between the two). Tomcat FAIL.
I don't use Quicken anymore, but if I needed to it runs seamlessly in Crossover Office. Tomcat FAIL.
I see your irrational hatred of Linux is still going strong. I'd try to explain to you how pathetically juvenile that is, but I'm afraid you're too far gone to listen to reason. That's really sad.
Official Apple statement on PRISM and privacy: "Regardless of the circumstances, our Legal team conducts an evaluation of each request and, only if appropriate, we retrieve and deliver the narrowest possible set of information to the authorities. In fact, from time to time when we see inconsistencies or inaccuracies in a request, we will refuse to fulfill it." This is basically Apple re-publishing their earlier statement in a more official manner. You either believe it, or you don't.
The open source Contiki operating system and its commercial Thingsquare distribution are making strides towards the connected home. According to a Computerworld article, a new LED light bulb manufacturer is putting small computers into their light bulbs. Each computer runs the Contiki OS, which gives each bulb an IP address and allows them to be controlled with a smartphone application. To connect the bulbs to the application, the bulbs use both Wi-Fi and the much lower power IEEE 802.15.4 mesh technology.
"Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it's forced to give the government. The legal filing, which cites the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech, is the latest move by the California-based tech giant to protect its reputation in the aftermath of news reports about sweeping National Security Agency surveillance of Internet traffic." Draining the ditch after the cow has drowned in it."I can't find one person who has been using the Nexus 7 for an extended period of time, and hasn't seen a massive downgrade in performance. Just what kind of downgrade are we talking here? I cannot pick up my Nexus 7 without experiencing problems like a lag of ten seconds, or more, just to rotate the display; touches refusing to acknowledged; stuttering notification panel actions; and unresponsive apps." Fully and utterly agreed. My Nexus 7 was blazing-fast and awesome for a few months, and at some point, it just started sucking. Just like that. I've tried loads of ROMs, and nothing helps.A new release of the hobby operating system MenuetOS! The release notes are a bit non-descript, but you'll have to take what you can get: "updates and improvements (picview, httpc, ehci, ...)"."The Internet is one of the most transformative technologies of our lifetimes. But for 2 out of every 3 people on earth, a fast, affordable Internet connection is still out of reach. And this is far from being a solved problem. There are many terrestrial challenges to Internet connectivity - jungles, archipelagos, mountains. There are also major cost challenges. Right now, for example, in most of the countries in the southern hemisphere, the cost of an Internet connection is more than a month's income. Solving these problems isn't simply a question of time: it requires looking at the problem of access from new angles. So today we're unveiling our latest moonshot from Google[x]: balloon-powered Internet access." Insane.
"MineAssemble is a tiny bootable Minecraft clone written partly in x86 assembly. I made it first and foremost because a university assignment required me to implement a game in assembly for a computer systems course. Because I had never implemented anything more complex than a 'Hello World' bootloader before, I decided I wanted to learn about writing my own kernel code at the same time. Note that the goal of this project was not to write highly efficient hand-optimized assembly code, but rather to have fun and write code that balances readability and speed. This is primarily accomplished by proper commenting and consistent code structuring." Just cool.
Jon Rubinstein, former CEO of Palm: "Well, I'm not sure I would have sold the company to HP. That's for sure. Talk about a waste. Not that I had any choice because when you sell a company you don't get to decide that. Obviously, the board and shareholders decide that. If we had known they were just going to shut it down and never really give it a chance to flourish, what would have been the point of selling the company? I think the deal we had with Verizon really hurt us, but who knew that at the time? These things are all hindsight.""And so it is with Dell's Alienware X51 R2, a small form factor gaming PC in console digs. It's shaped similar to Microsoft's Xbox 360 Slim, and though it's slightly larger than either a 360 or PlayStation 3, the X51 R2 would be right at home in a living room setting nestled next to a large screen TV. Indeed, it's adept at running Steam's Big Picture mode, and if your primary objective is to play games in the living room, go ahead and consider the X51 R2 a hybrid game console." This is obviously not the only machine like this - still, these are very valid console alternatives even for those that don't like being hunched over with a cramped WASD-claw. Also, PC gamers among us: could you get away with the $699 model for gaming?
From Bloomberg: "Microsoft, the world's largest software company, provides intelligence agencies with information about bugs in its popular software before it publicly releases a fix, according to two people familiar with the process. That information can be used to protect government computers and to access the computers of terrorists or military foes." The lid has officially been blown off.
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2005-07-02
Here's my experience:
- Take Netbook out of box
- Plug it in
- Turn it on
- Everything works
I did what a customer would usually do, I bought a computer with the OS pre-installed. In this case, it was Ubuntu.
Later on I upgraded it to 9.04, then 9.10, and everything. Just. Worked.
I must agree with others, here. I don't think you are objective enough for us to trust the results of your experiment. Even then, the only thing it would prove is that those particular hardware combos work better with Win7 than Ubuntu.