"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...
Your comments would seem pretty naive and immature. Your 'solution' appears to be, "gee, let's all just give in to the hackers and give them...
Talkback
Replacing XP with VISTA is like taking a step backward, with all the new memory, and hardware requirements, not to mention compatibility problems. As far as IE7 adoption, IE7 is IE6 in a new wrapper, so why upgrade? It is just as buggy as IE6 and not much more secure. They need to start new and do a complete rebuild.
Unlike home users, it is costly for enterprise to upgrade, it's not just a case of insert the CD and you're done; there's data migration, software from other vendors which might not immidiately be compatible, in some cases user training etc. So it is understandable why they'd take their time.
Vista is more secure but isn't that big an improvement from XP overall, if you factor in hardware requirements and all the other compatibility issues that have plagued Vista, it makes business sense to hold out or even skip Vista and wait for Windows 7!
I agree.
But lets have a look.
The developement of Linux started more than 15 years ago.
And "they" had a head start as it was based on Unix, a proved multi-user multitasking system.
Windows was based on QDOS, a absolutly minimalistic piece of software for a PC (Personal Computer) never intended for anything else.
All knowledge, all background, all thinking within Microsoft is based on a code base built on the PC. All those in power are children of that background. (take Bill, discard Ball).
Now, they have the money, indeed, to rebuild from scratch.
But they do not have the TIME.
With Windows 7, or what ever, they will always pach the same code base because there is no alternative, because they do not have the time.
Add to that the fact that Bill is only interested in consumer electronics that could produce yet an other monopoly.
And then there is his silly quest to be an inventor, the chief arhitect.
But he never invented anything (the tablet anyone).
Microsoft has simply run out of time, and preserving the monopoly of today, is all there is left to do (bye Ball).
The complete lack of controll over "hardware" does not make it easier.