Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Dec 2012 23:12 UTC
"Windows XP was the last client version of Windows to include the Pinball game that had been part of Windows since Windows 95. There is apparently speculation that this was done for legal reasons. No, that's not why." I love these stories.
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RE[3]: If only Microsoft...
by lucas_maximus on Wed 19th Dec 2012 18:26
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RE[4]: If only Microsoft...
by Morgan on Wed 19th Dec 2012 21:53
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It's the nature of the beast. We're all conditioned to take sides, and it takes effort combined with experience to fight that conditioning.
There was a time, when I was in high school and Windows didn't have a Start button, that I openly derided anything not from Microsoft because that was the culture I was brought up in. Our school had a couple of ancient Apple IIs in the special education lab, and one lonely Mac Classic that belonged to a teacher, but the majority of the school computers were DOS/Windows machines. We were force-fed DOS and Windows as the only solution.
After high school, I wasn't able to enroll in college right away due to health issues so I took some correspondence courses instead, and that was the first time I'd heard of the new kid on the block, Linux. Fast forward to today and I feel that all major OSes, and quite a few minor ones, have merit and a place on my hardware. Of course, BeOS and Haiku are at the top of my list, but I happily use Windows, OS X and GNU/Linux daily as well.
Of course, no two people have the same experience, so opinions differ and people do tend to become entrenched in a particular platform. I feel the regulars here are much more open minded than at other website communities and forums, but you'll always have a few zealots.
RE[3]: If only Microsoft...
by tylerdurden on Thu 20th Dec 2012 01:39
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RE[4]: If only Microsoft...
by phreck on Fri 21st Dec 2012 16:25
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Oh, but
Let's be real - open source fans that bash Microsoft are 99% of Linux free soul open minders, not WordPress.
Just read Ubuntu forums.
Just read Ubuntu forums.
is just feelings, too; the difference is I admit that those are just feelings (instead of imposing logic where there is none), and strictly speaking, I have the feeling that near to no post in any forum is scienceful and precise.
But generally, I agree.
Edited 2012-12-21 16:26 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 21:38 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/11/13 21:41 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/08/13 14:22 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/29/13 21:06 UTC
Oh multitasking. That staple of computing that got thrown out the window with many modern smartphones. We got some rudimentary thing in its place - but even as multitasking on phone and tablets improves, its user-visible side remains cumbersome. Windows 8 has a neat implementation, and now it's time Android follows in it footsteps.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/24/13 22:24 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/18/13 11:21 UTC
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I have the feeling that there's more Open-Source/Free-Software-Phobia from some Windows users than there is Free-Software-Zealotry; in other words, I see more free-software-bashing than vice versa.
And interestingly (my own real life experience), those participating in free-software-hate are also often those ignoring and being ignorant on open-source licenses and their terms, but still grabbing such code ("got that from google"), no matter what.