Rofl@micro************************

[speedy11309]

http://www.smartofficenews.com.au/Computing/Platforms_And_Applications?article=/Computing/Platforms%20And%20Applications/News/E5T7U6H8

the title says it all

[chris000001]

Lol.....

programmers who complained he was trying to impose bureaucracy and rob Microsoft of its creativity.

Last time i checked coping other peoples work wasnt called CREATIVITY!!!!

[NotMyBest2Day]

Beh. I lost interest/respect/hope with M$ when they released XP, and even more so when I heard about Longhorn. I'm staying with 2k and will most likely get a Mac. The only reason I'd keep an x86 rig is for games. It wouldn't have access to the Internet, so I wouldn't have to keep it updated and all of that.

[chris000001]

already got a MAC and im loving it

[NotMyBest2Day]

I just think the best part about that article is that Google beat M$ to the desktop search utility, and Mozilla beat M$ to the tabbed browsing among other things, and now if M$ uses those features, they'll just be "copycats". ROFLCOPTER. You have to be innovative and be the first to come up with it, otherwise throw it out and come up with something else.

In all honestly, I think M$ should just stop with the OSes and stick with things like Office and their occasional games. They need to fix/improve what they already have out instead of creating more problems. Among all else, I believe they've gotten their monopoly on the market and need to take like a 10-year vacation and let the little guys have some glory for a while.

[Nova]

well i'm not gonna read all 3 damn pages but i din't need bill gates to tell me windows was broken, i din't need that article to tell me microsofts ways of programming were bad, and i definetly din't need that article to tell me about microsofts creativity. they have no creativity they copy anything they can, and the second they actually copy or dear god come up with an idea that hasn't been how shall we say, copyrighted aka some noname teenager in his parent's basement came up with it, they copyright the sh1t outa it.

anyway i'd rather go linux then mac, i used a mac back in gradeschool and i'm never looking back.

oh and if you havent noticed, M$ copied realplayer with media player and they are letting the little guys have some glory, right up to the point where M$ thinks they proved their worth and then its time to copy and out-do with their "we make windows, we know whats good for you" attitude.

[Rudegar]

i think opera had tab browsing before firefox being that it's an older browser and have had it always
not sure if earlier mozilla browsers had it too though

[NotMyBest2Day]

Friend of mine Has always sworn by Netscape, and N7 had tabbed browsing, and 7's been out much longer than FF.

[gokusimpson]

In all honestly, I think M$ should just stop with the OSes and stick with things like Office and their occasional games.

They need another Freelancer.

[LiquidPsyrix]

And a better MechWarrior.

[Stone Fox]

And a better MechWarrior.

Damn! Was Mechwarrior Microsoft?!?! :eek:

I LOVED Mechwarrior 4...!

Would never have believed the company that inflicted Windoze on us could produce something that quality!

[Rudegar]

well maybe they just produce it and get 3th party developers to make it
it's often the case with ms not sure if they themselfs make many games

[NotMyBest2Day]

Some other company did all of the games that M$ slapped their name on. The little guys that'll never be known.

[Nova]

you mean kinda like starcraft ghost and Nihilistic err i mean Blizzard :p

[Avid6eek]

That article does explain alot. At least MS has realised that their old ways of developing software are not cutting it anymore. As the article said Microsoft is very slow to reach to market demand. That is why they are behind on such features as tabbed browsing, desktop searching. Smaller companies are able to integrate these features much faster than Microsoft. Hopefully they'll get their act together. No matter what anyone says, MS is far better now then they were a decade ago. Windows XP is just as stable as Mac OSX assuming you're not an idiot. Windows 95 would literally blue screen at least once a day even on a new install.

[omga14]

when game developers make games natively able to play on opengl and dx you will see alot more poeple go to some sort of Linux distro period. until that happens it'll be macro************************ doing it's world domination thing.

[§hinoßi]

u guys are missing the point, this is a good thing, microsoft is finally working on a GOOD product.

Kudos to micro************************

[NotMyBest2Day]

Beh. Their legends preceed them. I don't care what they do or make, I'm still going to dislike their products. Only reason I'm still using M$ products is because of global domination.

[omga14]

i reserve judgment on the linux build style windows OS until i have seen people use it for a while.

[NotMyBest2Day]

Well I always try to stay at least a year behind the "current" thing anyways. Let everyone else suffer through the bugs, flaws and limits/restrictions while I make up my mind. I'm going to stick to 2k for a very long time though.

[ElrichMeister]

Friend of mine Has always sworn by Netscape, and N7 had tabbed browsing, and 7's been out much longer than FF.


i believe netscape is based off of mozilla and fire fox is based off of it as well, to i guess mozilla is the first

[NotMyBest2Day]

From my understanding, Netscape was around, and then Mozilla broke off and spawned FF. That's what I've read in the past.

[PimpMySystem]

i like 2k much more to but others back in limburg dont and the !SENSORED! thing is that it doesn't work on a network with others(xp and longhorn) it seems and they are also saying that it has more bugs then 98 ??? anyway improvement is usefull

[NotMyBest2Day]

Die-hard XP'ers and those who don't really know any better always say that 2k and XP don't like each other, but the bottom line is that they'll cooperate just fine, as far as networking goes. A friend of mine is at college and they said that everybody <b>must</b> have XP SP2, no matter what. The reason is so that the tech people only have to know their way around one OS instead of a few.

In all honestly, 2k is just as secure/full of bugs as XP. XP is built off of 2k, and just given some asthetic changes. As long as you keep 2k updated, there's nothing wrong with it, except those die-hard XP'ers will say "..but it's not XP, so it's a piece of crap!" Win98 will communicate just fine with 2k or XP on the networking side, too. Just have to have usernames and passwords set up, and it'll work just fine. With how much networking has advanced in recent years, basically <b>any</b> OS will communicate with a different one with <i>almost</i> no problems.

[speedy11309]

die-hard XP'ers will say "..but it's not XP, so it's a piece of crap!"

but windows xp is a piece of crap...im confused now.

[PCgeek]

If one of you can tell me a substitute for msconfig in Windows2000 then I would definitely switch over. That's the only reason I'm using XP lol.

[speedy11309]

<----uses xp pro. would switch if my school wasnt a prick about it.

[Nova]

one reason i loved school in michigan, they used linux, unix, or some other form of OS, only pc's with windows were the ones that you did your homework on, checked e-mail or the noob class ones where you were starting out. guess thats why bill gates went there first.

[NotMyBest2Day]

If one of you can tell me a substitute for msconfig in Windows2000 then I would definitely switch over. That's the only reason I'm using XP lol.
start > run > regedit

HKCU & HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run

If you were just using msconfig to take stuff off of the startup tab, there's your solution. Back up the key if you might want to add stuff back in later (like if you're doing some benchies).

[ElrichMeister]

actually u can use msconfig on win2000 just get the .exe of msconfig from xp, im not sure if it works in the other OS's

[Nova]

well i don't know if i'm doing anything wrong but WTF is the point of msconfig. seriously i go in there, turn the startup crap off, apply, reboot, yet every time it just turns itself back on again... i have no f*cking idea whats going on. its like this useless feature M$ added to make the more aware people feel in control, yet m$ knows whats good for us so they'll just turn everything back on because hey, they made windows, and their the billionaires, and i'm just some kid whos using their product. god f*cking damnit i'm learning linux the second i have the time to do so, and once it gains some support i'm switching over. DIE Windows DIE.

[NotMyBest2Day]

Go in the registry and just delete the strings in there. I had a problem with one of the strings coming back and it turns out it was one of those speed-loading features for one of my programs. Also, on someone else's computer, the strings kept coming back because of spyware.

[Dizzious]

Beh. I lost interest/respect/hope with M$ when they released XP, and even more so when I heard about Longhorn. I'm staying with 2k and will most likely get a Mac. The only reason I'd keep an x86 rig is for games. It wouldn't have access to the Internet, so I wouldn't have to keep it updated and all of that.

Apple is switching over to x86, man.

[NotMyBest2Day]

Yeah, I know. I was mad at the time when I made that post. I'm still considering switching to mac at some point though. I think a 2k rig will be fine for the next two or three years though, even though there won't be any more critical updates released/made after July '06. I might end up finally just giving in to the anti-trust team and get Vista, but that'll be when 2k becomes what 95 is today. I still don't know though. Mac still looks pretty tasty. Even when they do switch to x86, the kernel will still be mostly the same. It'll be an alternative that I'll highly consider.