Thread: Windows7 a Con? Well it comes from Micro$oft

7 is tops. I dislike windows in general and have run ubuntu a few times, its excellent but I just cant do what I need to do with it. Compozer it good, but not good enough. What I wish is that the world switched to open source overnight. Dell are starting to ship with ubuntu and I did read somewhere the french government also uses it.

FYI those of you who dont know (I realise some computer genius's are on this thread) you can go half way by replacing outlook with thunderbird, and office with openoffice, nero with cdburnerxp and pdf-xchange for a pdf viewer. All free and very good. I wont mention FF as I assume most people reading this use it.

Originally Posted by tongaboys

It was three years ago I last used XP. My whole experience with M/$oft had been one of time lost to battling a crap OS to do what I wanted, viruses, malware, spyware, reformatting reinstalling, phoning M/$oft in Asia somewhere and getting their blessing to use a OS I owned. But hey you don't know anything different do you!....

So defmec do yourself a favour download/burn a CD (Download Ubuntu | Ubuntu) and try out Ubuntu Linux, (you can even get a CD mailed to you: https://shipit.ubuntu.com/). As a live Operating System CD you can keep the wife happy, just pop in the Ubuntu CD, (a computer on a disc!) and boot at startup to use....surf the web, do your banking, use all functions of the OS without installing.

Or alternately install it on the your PC as a dual boot (installing is painless so easy for anyone, completed system in 20mins), drivers selected and provided for your PC, hundreds software preselected for linux provided within the system, NO NEED TO HUNT THE WEB for operating software anymore.

Ubuntu is better and easier to use than any XP, Vista, Windose 7. NO MORE VIRUSES, SPYWARE, MALWARE anymore....ajust, customised, Ubuntu to your hearts content. You'll find a replacements for all your Windo$e requirements, there's a great Ubuntu Forums who will help with any problems. The best is there's no need for you personally to buy that Mac, or a new PC, because Ubuntu is FREE, drivers, all software you'll ever need, FREE everything is opensource.

You'll then one day you may realize your no longer battling to get everything in line and for the first time enjoying using your computer....

only problem, telstra's mobile modems etc are not compatible with ubuntu

Mac OS, Windows, Ubuntu usability aside the one thing that really amazes me is the price Microsoft charges for a Windows upgrade. I'm amazed they haven't brought the price down over the last few years to at least below $100.

Mind you it has come down a lot from the days of Windows 3.11 but I still think they are over charging for the home user.

Originally Posted by richard4u2

only problem, telstra's mobile modems etc are not compatible with ubuntu

Well you got me stumped there... what about a refund, complain to telstra, try Ubuntu Forums and ask for help,

try google........ Google

Wow that was a hell of a lot of my dad is bigger than your dad in those 9 pages

and I reckon due to him being so defensive captain rightfoot is a mac based virus writer

BUSTED!!!!

That's not true... I haven't written any viruses for Window 7 yet... Can't say too much about the other versions

Anyway I've been working a Windows 7 virus with this guy online who calls himself "Little Green Man". We had hoped to have it ready for launch, but he's been letting the side down. He claims he's been busy with "abductions" or something like that..

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Originally Posted by disco2hse

Just as a matter of interest, like what?

I use, from work, a Mac Book Pro with Snow Leopard. I have also installed Parallels with Win7 Enterprise without any major issues but I have not really done much with it yet. It is all running under 32 bit mode.

Booting Win7 seems quite snappy and there do not appear to be too many issues so far.

I have found Snow Leopard to have some important changes to, for example, networking protocols and management that are very annoying. The new AFP in Snow Leopard is not backward compatible with Leopard for a number of good reasons but it now means that connecting to my G5 I have to address its IP address instead of its computer name. Another example is gcc, which defaults to the 64 bit version of the compiler. In the greater scheme of things these are mere annoyances and certainly not show stoppers.

Together I think they are a good combination if there are applications that you need to run under Win7. If you don't want to run under emulation then install using bootcamp on the Mac.

Alan

At work I run SAP front end & at home SAP on a Citrix connection plus Office 2007. Occasionally Autocad 2010.
Our IT dept in Sydney doesn't even support SAP on Vista (i had to work this out myself) so what hope would i have running it on a Mac Windows emulator?

cheers..B