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  • On the post: Microsoft: The Heavyweight OS Is Here To Stay

    norman619 ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2007 @ 10:31am

    Re: Re: Linux? Only for peolple who know what they

    Too bad your "six year old" is not representative of the average user. Nice try tho.

  • On the post: Microsoft: The Heavyweight OS Is Here To Stay

    norman619 ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2007 @ 10:26am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: one less customer for

    He was obviously blown away by your UBER L33T basket weaving skills. Anyway, I'd suggest avoiding any of the tourst exotic places.

  • On the post: Microsoft: The Heavyweight OS Is Here To Stay

    norman619 ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2007 @ 10:23am

    Re: games, games, games...

    Ok let's inform you a bit. The top 3 used for a coputer today are Web browsing, Email, and videogames.

    Peopel like you make me laugh. You think you know how a PC should be used. A Pc is nothing more than a tool. What kind of tool depends on what programs you choose to run on it. Get a life.

    If you were just joking then please ignore what I just said. :-)

  • On the post: Microsoft: The Heavyweight OS Is Here To Stay

    norman619 ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2007 @ 09:57am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: one less customer for Microsof

    My vote is basket weaver! Am I right? What do I get if I'm right?

  • On the post: Microsoft: The Heavyweight OS Is Here To Stay

    norman619 ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2007 @ 09:54am

    Re: Re: Eventually they will make it work, (sort o

    Too funny. You assume we don't know anything about the Apple OS. I have amachine on which I have Linux running. I use it as my netwrork firewall router. I have a virtual machine running OSX. :-) I like to play with it but I really can't do anything serious with the OSX. All my apps are either windows only or run best under windows. As for the game play thing. Sorry but none of the popular games run on OSX. Emulation is not a great way to run an application like a fps or anything else which is 3D graphics intensive. You take a huge perfomance hit. And with the comming DX10 games Emulation is not even possible. I am so ready to jump the MS ship but the problem is there isn't a viable alternative out there for me to jump to.

  • On the post: Microsoft: The Heavyweight OS Is Here To Stay

    norman619 ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2007 @ 09:43am

    Re: How does MS Stay in Business?

    They make you need them then you can do pretty much what you like with the full knowledge that the users do not any viable alternatives so they will stay put and take it. Pretty easy to see.

  • On the post: Microsoft: The Heavyweight OS Is Here To Stay

    norman619 ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2007 @ 09:42am

    Re:

    Teh end of this year and beginning next year we will see the release of the first true DX10 games. And as someone just said DX10 is a Vista only technology and given the horsepower of the DX10 games emulation will not be an option. As more people start adopting Vista and upgrading their cards we will see support for the non-DX10 cards fade away.

    Do you know if there are stable drivers for the current DX10 cards out for Linux? The drivers I have now are pure crap and I wouldn't bother running a DX10 game on it.

  • On the post: Microsoft: The Heavyweight OS Is Here To Stay

    norman619 ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2007 @ 09:36am

    Re: Disclaimer

    Emulation is a joke. Nuff said.

  • On the post: Microsoft: The Heavyweight OS Is Here To Stay

    norman619 ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2007 @ 09:35am

    Re: Replies & Thoughts

    "The instant they FINALLY make most games for Linux, I am done forever with Windoze. I eagerly await the day."

    Nice pipedream you got there.

  • On the post: Microsoft: The Heavyweight OS Is Here To Stay

    norman619 ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2007 @ 09:33am

    Re: The real question is..

    Network OS boot has been in play for a long time in teh business world. The verage person needs the OS installed locally. Not everyone has a nice and fast internet connect. Even less have a reliable connection. Non-critical applications may be ok witht eh whole web based idea but things like your OS need to remain local installs.

  • On the post: Microsoft: The Heavyweight OS Is Here To Stay

    norman619 ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2007 @ 09:29am

    Re: Re:

    Are you joking? Linux is still not remorely ready for the average computer user. It's still an OS for the tech savy. You want proof? Have a tech newbie try to install and configure it w/o any help. Have them try to install and uninstall stuff. I'm willing to bet they may have started out as your friend btu at the end they will be ready to shoot you.

  • On the post: Microsoft: The Heavyweight OS Is Here To Stay

    norman619 ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2007 @ 09:14am

    Re: Vista is Evil

    I've been running Vista just fine for a while now. Though I see no point to haing ti at this time. Everything I have runs just fine under XP. Right now Vista is just a toy. There is no valid need to upgrade to Vista.

  • On the post: Microsoft: The Heavyweight OS Is Here To Stay

    norman619 ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2007 @ 09:12am

    Re:

    The whole web based app idea is pretty stupid. I don't think having to have an internet connection to use your application is crazy. this is doable in a business setting where they can host the application locally on a server but for Joe Average this makes zero sense. Ordinary folks will still require the application to be installed locally. Imagine being at home working on a something for work wich is due the next day and your internet connection goes down for the rest of the night. You would be quite screwed.

  • On the post: Microsoft: The Heavyweight OS Is Here To Stay

    norman619 ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2007 @ 09:06am

    Re: Re: Re: one less customer for Microsoft...

    That's nice. Doesn't change the accuracy of his comment.

  • On the post: Microsoft: The Heavyweight OS Is Here To Stay

    norman619 ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2007 @ 08:52am

    Re: Re: When is MS going to do what Apple did?

    Let's not forget the lack of software vendor support. Most software vendors code for Windows. This is one of the big issues peopel will have with mirating from Windows to any of the alyernative OS's.

  • On the post: Microsoft: The Heavyweight OS Is Here To Stay

    norman619 ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2007 @ 08:39am

    Re: Microsoft: The Heavyweight OS Is Here To Stay?

    Must be nice to be able to turn you back on access to soo many aplications. Unfortunately I run applications which are Windows only or run more reliably under Windows. I would love to make the jump to Linux but alas w/o the software base I can't do it and remain as productive as I am now. Mac is not an option and will not be one for the foreseeable future. Mac has the heafty price tag working against it.

  • On the post: Microsoft: The Heavyweight OS Is Here To Stay

    norman619 ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2007 @ 08:33am

    Re: Evolutionary dead-end

    And please tell me how will MS be overthrown when over 90% of the software out there is written for Windows. I love how people seem to like to predict the demise of MS Windows w/o taking into account just what is keepoing it the dominant OS.

  • On the post: Microsoft: The Heavyweight OS Is Here To Stay

    norman619 ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2007 @ 08:31am

    Re: Eventually they will make it work, (sort of)

    This is exactly how I entered the Windows world.

  • On the post: Is Microsoft Gaining Ground In The Search Wars?

    norman619 ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2007 @ 11:07am

    Re:

    There was? That's funny because I've been using IE7 since it's release and it never switched me away from google as my default like I told it to do since the first install. Odd....

  • On the post: Is Microsoft Gaining Ground In The Search Wars?

    norman619 ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2007 @ 10:51am

    Set as default?

    "The company is probably getting a moderate boost from the adoption of Vista and the new IE7, which has Live search set as a default. If you'll recall, this setting prompted Google to make an antitrust complaint against the company. "

    WTF are they talking about? When you first launch IE7 after install it forces you to CHOOSE a default search. There is no "default." Google are a bunch of crybabies who want MS to cripple the native Vista search to make their desktop search more attractive. Nevermind the fact that the search has been in place for a LONG time just never implemented properly until Vista. What a load of crap.

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