Duplicate comments are not made intentionally. Its very good to know that now you are keeping check on this problem because sometimes a commenter...
"the very significant number of users" and "many (most) of us" - you have no evidence for these statements. It is a fact that most users are saying...
Another grammar faux pas is the improper use of "you". When sitting down down in a restaurant, for example, I get cringe when the waitress...
And NOW, folks, for Canonical's next trick...
Kubuntu is late.
Here's a pencil. Draw your own conclusions.
cf.:...
@kevinmchapman. The discussion here reflects the very significant number of users who really do like the traditional menu system and who wish to...
Er, no... It is an efficient means of finding the application/file/setting you need in one place. The icons are a simply a fallback for when you...
Isn't the provision of a text based search an admission by the developers that the mass of icons approach does not work? I don't need to use a...
"Unity and GNOME 3 both abandon the old text-based cascading menus in favour of a graphical icon-driven system."
Point truly missed. Both use a...
whs001 - Thank you, I'm glad you liked the article.
I absolutely agree with you on your first point. I should perhaps have made it clearer that...
If we allow corporate interest to dictate the way our government circumvents due process against foreign entities then we should accept the same...
I totally dislike pirating of works, I fear that artists will be deterred from creating works if they think that they are going to get ripped off....
How dare film makers, artists or anybody that invests in creativity stop us pirating their works for free. I want to be able to walk into my local...
@GrueMaster. I prefer horses for courses rather than one size fits all. I, and I suspect most other computer users, do not really wish to have...
The product that scares me every time I have to use it is the Office 2007 version of Excel.
The first bug that I found was applying the median...
Nice review and very informative. One thing I'd like to add (in reply to whs001's 1st question), the main reason to have the same interface from...
I'be been using Mint 12 since the RC came out, and I am far more happy with the Cinnamon, the Mate, and, yes (with extensions), theGnome 3...
Excellent article. One small correction, though--although a fresh installation of Linux Mint 12 will, indeed, provide the user with a version of...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
For Gnome 2 die-hards, it is possible to add icons to the bottom panel (or top top panel, if you prefer) which provide the exact Gnome 2...
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How about Windows XP Home/Pro "-MP" (seems logical really.. don't know about "N"!
hows about we just CAN M$ Corp full stop ..
end the whole worlds problem with a ripoff company
How's about Windows XPurgated?
It seems the separation of media player is really tinkering at the dges of a more level playing field if that's the EC's objective.
A Windows XP Basic version would be better with ALL apllications which are not strict OS separated out for a Pro bundle including IE and MediaPlayer - with APIs to the OS and its access utilities like DUN et al which are the same for MS internal and competitive developers - as was done with IBM to create the plug compatible market.
Its only what has been done to ensure more access to telecomms post monopoly already, and MS can then compete on the merits of its applications against other developers, which I'm sure it won't mind given the resources it has to do this..
And this action misses the strategic objective of pervasive computing by a mile, or is that 1.61 Kilometres?
The EC should have gone for a clear separation of OS and application - with equal open access to uitilities and programming tools. We also need apps like Office and its competitors to run on Linux and Windows to get the playing field level. Office on the Mac is excellent - with the usual reservations of over specification.
Such competition will yield the pricing, performance and refinement to move the industry forward to more pervasive computing devices accessible to the mass market to achieve national/EC wide pervasive network computing nirvana.
We won't get there locked into the current "DellDows" © solutions of vanilla PC hardware plus Windows architecture, both requiring continual matching upgardes. The current route is a dead end requiring substantial evolution and porting of technology to new platforms and delivery models to reach pervasive useable by all status - and get away from hardware, software and communications selling, to service delivery of value added applications for the rest of us...
............how long, has this been going on????
Just what I think.
Brian Catt
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To the ECs credit they've barely given Microsoft an inch in this case even if their threats of daily fines have gone unfulfilled.
How about Microsoft XP LMMS - (Less Microsoft More Secure)
Windows XP Professional Edition N.
Do they even realize that shortens to: WinXP ProN?!
(Of course, one has to be geeky enough to know, and admit to knowing, what "pron" means...)