@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...
"Interesting thought ... If you installed Win7 as a dual boot on a machine that previously only had Linux, and it wrecked your Linux installation,...
This is an excellent summary of Ubuntu and Mint and the interface differences between them. Most such articles take a very partisan position for...
@ewallace. Not so clear. Anyone can obtain the text, for example from here http://www.ustr.gov/webfm_send/2379.
I support ACTA so long as it and...
Talkback
It has been a long time since I have seen Microsoft running scared like this, and operating in "panic mode". After having pushed the release of Windows 7 forward as far as they possibly can, because of the drubbing they have taken with Vista, they are now desperately groping for ideas and variations that will avoid having the premature Windows 7 fall victim to the same fate. The routine seems to be, have a meeting, dredge up some ideas, leak those out through blogs and the like to see how badly pummeled they get, and then start over again at the next meeting.
All the while, of course, Microsoft employees are being very careful not to utter the "V-word", so as to try to let Vista fade into oblivion as quickly and quietly as possible.
jw 1/6/2009
Why Microsoft should impose limits at all other than to give them a variable level of control to scam their users out of more money. Linux doesn't do this and even Apple have only two versions of their OS, one for servers one for users.
Someone should remove the bean counters from Microsoft and put some people who are interested in the technology back in charge.
I think MS realized that the bulk of the operative code would have to be in all version's of Win7 and has ALREADY been released. The Starter Edition would likely be the first to be hacked, at first just to remove the limit of 3 applications. Success there would only encourage further experimentation.
Since it seems somebody has already figured out how to turn Win7 Ultimate (by way of the RC/Beta) into a zombie platform, the only reason preventing opening up Starter Edition Win 7 to more running applications is now a specious "security" argument.
If they would worry more about tightening up Internet security in Win7 and forget about "product enhancements", "user experience" and all that other marketing b.s., customers would take them more seriously. Win 7 might actually be a decent product one day if the marketing idiots could get shoved into the basement and kept there.