Re: years from now... (see Jason's last line) Bummer! It has been less than 60 days... didn't someone mention not being able to get XP from Dell already?
ben On 12/29/06, Jason LaPier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
After using and supporting XP for the last four years or so, I'd have to admit, it doesn't BSOD as much as earlier versions of Windows - in fact, even when I did see a BSOD it was hardware related (bad memory, failing hard drive, etc). Anyway, I think the point of the OP was that 98% of Windows users could use XP for the next 5 or 10 years if they had to and not even blink (as long as their AV works and their OS updates keep coming in) - there's no point in upgrading to Vista, because Vista doesn't have anything additional to offer the web-surfing, word-processing, mp3-playing, general pop. My biggest problem with OS X is lack of UI feedback. Most of the time if an application crashes, it just goes away - ugly error messages are hidden from the end-users, which both confuses the user and makes support that much more of a pain. Does hiding the error messages make the OS appear more stable to the end-user? I don't know. Probably. I just wish there was a way to at least go into System Prefs and check a box somewhere that would change that behavior. I've pretty much gotten to the point where I hate Windows and OS X equally, but for entirely different reasons. When it comes to user support, I find Windows easier to troubleshoot (the Event Viewer beats the pants off the 'Console' and googling for Windows errors yields solutions, whereas googling for Mac-related problems tends to lead me to propaganda) but of course OS X has a much more intuitive interface, cutting down on the "How do I" issues. So generally, in my office I let the end-users pick their poison. I won't support Vista until vendors like Dell no longer offer XP pre-installed, which I have a feeling will be years from now. - Jason ------------------------------ *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Friday, December 29, 2006 9:04 AM *To:* euglug@euglug.org *Subject:* Re: [Eug-lug] Narrowing Vistas, content protection,hardware and the death of open source in the "consumer" world. I'd have to say you are talking about mac-users there! "2% of people are perhaps fortunate enough to have it work all the time. Blessed are thosethat have never seen a blue screen and/or never sworn at their computer." With of course the exception that I had sworn at my computer at least a few times (mostly for the lack of dual-releases on games and/or game developement tools). I only wish apple spent as much time making developement suites (if they made any at all) as easy to understand as they did the workings of their os. -E -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: euglug@euglug.org Sent: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 7:49 PM Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Narrowing Vistas, content protection, hardware and the death of open source in the "consumer" world. That seems a gross over statement. Should be "XP works sometimes for 98% of the people that use it". --- Michael Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mike.mikemiller%40gmail.com>> wrote: >XP works just fine for 98% of the people out there. > Miller > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org <euglug%40euglug.org>http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug ------------------------------ *Check out the new AOL*<http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/1615326657x4311227241x4298082137/aol?redir=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eaol%2Ecom%2Fnewaol>. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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