Thread: Prediction: Win7 will flop harder than Vista

I think this is a wonderful idea, actually. They are trying to promote business to get off of their old computers, and try newer versions of Windows. They are losing money by letting everyone stay on XP. Seriously, they are taking a step in the right direction by trying to kill XP once and for all. There are plenty of reasons for a business to upgrade to 7, as I'm assuming it has better features in it such as resource management, faster file indexing, and if they can choke up the money, it will use newer hardware better. This is a step in the right direction, XP needs to die soon.

Originally Posted by Demon Parasite

I think this is a wonderful idea, actually. They are trying to promote business to get off of their old computers, and try newer versions of Windows. They are losing money by letting everyone stay on XP. Seriously, they are taking a step in the right direction by trying to kill XP once and for all. There are plenty of reasons for a business to upgrade to 7, as I'm assuming it has better features in it such as resource management, faster file indexing, and if they can choke up the money, it will use newer hardware better. This is a step in the right direction, XP needs to die soon.

Companies aren't at the will of microsoft anymore. Until OSX, they couldn't use Mac because Macs were slow, had a crappy OS, and weren't compatible with anything.

Now they are fully PC compatible, have better or equal software and after much faster. If M$ stays alive it will be due to the average consumer, not businesses. Businesses hire people to look deep into the computers and make decisions. The average Mac is a little more money, but lasts 3 times as long. Windows suffers from viruses, malware, and other harmful programs. Windows disks get fragmented and slow, programming it using DLLs is HELL and using static libraries make the software slow. Worse of all, it still has the registry at its core which is the main reason that the average PC has a lifespan just over 2 years.

If they unixify the backend, Windows might be salvageable. If they stick with NT, they are doomed.

XP was pretty good, I couldn't get a BSOD if I tried. In the past 2 weeks I've seen Vista's over 10 times.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Companies aren't at the will of microsoft anymore. Until OSX, they couldn't use Mac because Macs were slow, had a crappy OS, and weren't compatible with anything.

Now they are fully PC compatible, have better or equal software and after much faster. If M$ stays alive it will be due to the average consumer, not businesses. Businesses hire people to look deep into the computers and make decisions. The average Mac is a little more money, but lasts 3 times as long. Windows suffers from viruses, malware, and other harmful programs. Windows disks get fragmented and slow, programming it using DLLs is HELL and using static libraries make the software slow. Worse of all, it still has the registry at its core which is the main reason that the average PC has a lifespan just over 2 years.

If they unixify the backend, Windows might be salvageable. If they stick with NT, they are doomed.

XP was pretty good, I couldn't get a BSOD if I tried. In the past 2 weeks I've seen Vista's over 10 times.

I stopped reading when you said "M$".

Honestly, get over yourself. They are making money in a capitalist business. I don't see what's so wrong with it.

Macs are not better, and do not have better hardware. You are paying MORE money for the SAME hardware. Why don't you mac users get this? Windows is not "LOL BSOD SHITHOLE VIRUSES". I've never gotten one BSOD, and only 2 or 3 viruses in the 4 years I've had my computer. And the 2 or 3 viruses I got when I was younger, and didn't understand anything about it. Viruses are not really a threat to a Windows user, unless you like going on LimeWire and downloading YOUNG TEEN GIRLS STRIPPING.WMV.EXE.

Originally Posted by Demon Parasite

I stopped reading when you said "M$"

Actually,
M$ was originally a joke about Microsoft's BASIC interpreter

In Basic, you append a dollar sign to string variables,
and early MS implementations only allowed for 2 character variables

Code:

10 M$ = "I'm a crappy string variable"

It's only fairly recently that M$ has been used to infer money

I'll ignore the rest, as it's crap

Originally Posted by Demon Parasite

I stopped reading when you said "M$".

Honestly, get over yourself. They are making money in a capitalist business. I don't see what's so wrong with it.

Macs are not better, and do not have better hardware. You are paying MORE money for the SAME hardware. Why don't you mac users get this? Windows is not "LOL BSOD SHITHOLE VIRUSES". I've never gotten one BSOD, and only 2 or 3 viruses in the 4 years I've had my computer. And the 2 or 3 viruses I got when I was younger, and didn't understand anything about it. Viruses are not really a threat to a Windows user, unless you like going on LimeWire and downloading YOUNG TEEN GIRLS STRIPPING.WMV.EXE.

The average lifespan of a PC is just over 2 years, the average lifespan of a Mac is 6. That's where the extra money comes from. The registry makes a PC unusable very quickly, and registry cleaners do not work as well as they should and most people don't use them. Viruses aren't a big thread, but malware and spyware is, the writers are getting very crafty. They are locking the processes and creating watcher processes that restart them after windows or you shut them down.

A 10 hour battery isn't bad either, find me a PC that has one of those.

Apples charges more for their hardware because they sell software much cheaper. M$ office is what, 300 dollars for everything? iWork is $79. Keynote is the industry standard now, not Powerpoint, Word is a terrible formatter, Pages has a LaTeX backend. Vista Ultimate is several hundred dollars, Leopard is $129. Windows comes with Windows Movie Maker, OSX comes with iMovie. Windows comes with Paint, OSX comes with GIMP. The software of the average PC can't even compare to the software of the average Mac.

Originally Posted by Ynot

Actually,
M$ was originally a joke about Microsoft's BASIC interpreter

QBasic to be precise I remember having to declare M$ as a string, M% as an integer, and M& as a float