--Nice find.
Actually the Internet gives better numbers than any tool before.. not perfect.
When it comes to light PCs.. I think you are right.. this is a market that Linux being free, and now being much more usable is poised to dominate.. it could become a beachhead against Windows.. so Microsoft needs to figure out a model that offers Windows to this super cheap PC market or they will have issues.. so I agree they are scared or at least aware of a paradigm shift that could happen.
All my apps--Fact of the matter is XP Pro is stable, fast, and secure when setLightyears ahead in what way? I see XP got SP3 also.
And we all know that XP runs most applications faster, but hey..
"that's a nice car you have with a skoda engine, never mind, I like
the paint job!"
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I am not the 'Ghost Hunter', nor am I the Irish actor in the 'Quiet
Man' ;-)
up right which is easy for an experienced user. I haven't had any XP
loads lost to malware in over two years with XP Pro on 3 machines.
No data was ever lost in my 4+ years of using XP Pro.
XP x64 is even more stable and very secure, best of all unlike Vista,
almost all apps run seamlessly on it, and coders are still writing
drivers for it. I love XP x64. My latest app is the Spyder 3
Printing Suite.
Both DPP and ZB, as well as CS2 run perfectly on this work horse of
an OS.
That's exactly what XP has evolved into, a work horse that gets the
job done with no special treatment or bother. Easy to run, easy to
look at.
-Fortune favors the bold-
It naturally depends where in Ontario you are, but the following linkBTW if anyone has good info on legal FTA channels available in
Ontario I would love a link
has a good summary of ATSC stations available in southern Ontario
(the transmitters are in Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo):
http://www.remotecentral.com/hdtv/
Getting off-the-air ATSC television in Canada is still a lot more
difficult than it is in the US, but in major markets it certainly is
available. The main issue is that the CRTC hasn't been as aggressive
as the FCC in pushing toward the analog shutdown, so the incentives
for the networks to make the switch are limited at this juncture.
With that said, if you are close enough to the border you can always
take advantage of the US networks
I am not so sure about that. You see, Google was able to figure out how to make money from the internet! They are also still growing in market share. This has opened the gate for GMail's success. GMail in turn is opening the door for Google Calendar, with some very nifty collaboration features. This in turn is opening the door for Google Docs, etc. While I agree that this in and of itself is not competing with Windows or Office, yet, it is certainly blocking MS from benefiting from that new market, confining MS into continued reliance on its old (increasingly threatened) cash cows for income.
I agree that some things will never leave the local client. But, online mail has proved so convenient that people have been willing to compromise a good measure of privacy. If done properly, I think the same thing could happen with other type of data. The key asset for an online vendor is trust. Google has won the hearts of many by bing a generous company that gives you things for free. Even their home page has always been a breath of fresh air, devoid of processor and bandwidth sucking advertisements. Of course, it helps their case a lot to have the best search engine in the world, but their future prospects depend just as much on being perceived as " not evil".
OpenOffice.org is another huge problem for MS. Between Linux and OOo, a formidable challenge has emerged to MS old cash cows. MS keeps trying to diversify, but they don't seem to be getting anywhere with any of their efforts. At least as far as I am aware.
The link I gave is a pretty respected source for helping people determine what needs to be supported.
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--MS should be worried; they allowed themselves to get behind the curve and their stockholders will pay the price. Worse they left a potentially formidable competitor get a stronger foothold. Intel and others learn there are viable alternatives that their customers like and will buy. Bill's decision to stay at the helm isn't going to help allay stockholders fears either. 1999 was a much happier time for many. http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/charts/chartdl.aspx?D5=0&D4=1&ViewType=0&D3=0&Symbol=MSFT&ShowChtBt=Refresh+Chart&DateRangeForm=1&CE=0&C9=0&DisplayForm=1&ComparisonsForm=1&CP=0&PT=10
I agree. The Vista kernel implements significant features to improve security, smooth multitasking and reduce incidence of the entire OS crashing from poorly behaved apps and drivers. These are all under the skin and require someone actually care enough to investigate ... a harder task than just launching a new Vista-attack thread promoting every anti-Vista article that shows up somewhere.
I have three home built machines and 3 note books all on vista even two older XP shipped notebooks that were upgraded for work reasons orginally that ll work fine.
--Yes.
Haven't tried FTA satellite service, however if you're in the GTA most of the channels transmitted from the CN tower (including CBC and CityTV) can easily be picked up with a simple tabletop antenna. Naturally, a mast mounted antenna will pull in more stations, but it really isn't necessary for the big networks. If you are further away from the city, of course, things may be a little more difficult.
--You can use vista to your hearts content, in fact I hope you do. However you have no leeway to accuse anyone in this thread of trolling as you escalated this thread about vista to personal level of insult in your previous post:
