Microsoft now selling Softwear
March 19th, 2009
| Categories: Computers
Microsoft Gets into Clothing Linq
Microsoft’s Softwear
Yeah. With the economy said to be in bad shape, and Vista still shunned by the fanboys, Microsoft may very well be preparing for the worst. Let’s hope there are enough people who still remember the days of computing from the 80s, enough so that they’ll feel the pang of nostalgia.
Bill Gates’ mugshot! woo~
Windows 7 is the way.
What’s so great about Windows 7? It looks like it’d need Windows Vista system reqs and more.
Win7 is basically vista with a face lift and some new bells and whistles. I’ve had it running since it was released and frankly it’s still a dead dog. Running on a 11ghz quad core with 4gb of ram it still struggles at times. It takes to long to do basic tasks and frankly it suckls. WinXP out performs it in every test, hell XP even boots faster and XP is slow as hell.
7 is a lot more stable than vista i’ll give them that. Only had 2 BSoD since it started running, but it does have a lot of compatibility issues, especially with games and such. If you’ve a Win95 game forget running it on Win7. I tried running several 95/98 games and they crapped out big time. Even with the tricks used to get them running in vista they didn’t work.
When you have to jump through a 100 hoops to make a game work it’s a bad OS. I’m probably going to move over fully to linux when XP is no longer supported. I use linux for most of my stuff as it is anyway
Ahem. Just because you have to jump through a hundred hoops to get a game working in Windows 7 does not mean that it is a bad OS. In fact, it means that Windows has finally left the old baggage behind and evolved for the better, although you may not know in better in what ways. I can’t say for sure what has changed for the better on the app development side, but on the OS side, NT has always been better than 95/98/Me. Frankly, the further away we get from that stinking pile of horse shit that blue screened all the time, the better. Even if that does mean sacrificing application compatibility. What kind of OS makes you restart after changing the IP address anyway? Just install 98/Me on a virtual machine. Things change, live with it. The only instance of things remaining the same at this level is IBM’s z Architecture backwards compatibility all the way back to the System/360. And that’s more like the exception rather than the norm.
Also, Vista never BSODed on me, unless I screwed something up terribly (fucking around with NTLDR, for example). Get newer drivers for you nVidia graphics card. Those are almost always the main source of BSODs under Vista.
Vista’s real problem is that it hits the disk way too much. Clicking on the Network and Sharing Center icon makes my hard drive grind for a couple seconds before the popup finally draws. Starting the Control Panel takes even longer. I press Win+E, and Explorer grinds my hard drive yet again. This shouldn’t be happening. If Windows 7 continues the tradition, I’m dropping it like a pile of horse dung. Anandtech says that an Intel X-25M will mitigate some of the performance issues, though frankly, we shouldn’t have to resort to SSDs for the performance that we always got before on magnetic disk storage.