Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: Windows 8. Oye.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Windows 8. Oye.

TECHNO THRILLS

I have seen the future. I'll pass.

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To Quote (out of context) Archie Bunker,

“It ain’t supposed to make sense; it’s faith. Faith is something that you believe that nobody in his right mind would believe.”

Tain't a day goes by where only inertia keeps me from replacing Windows 7 with XP. That's right. I no longer have no faith that Microsoft can offer me something that's more useful than it is not. I have certain things I want to do, and it seems each new iteration stops me from doing something else I could do in the past. Like screen cap videos. Some wag said "Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.. " I'm past that. Way. I bet Windows 5 would scream on this quad core machine.

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Rodger the Real King of France 3/14/2012 10:12:00 PM 10 Comments

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10 comments:

Robert said...: I made the switch to Mac ten years ago.
The wife followed the following year.
She used to get virii and other malware on her PC in spite of her antivirus software. We haven't had a problem with that since.
Everything just works.
Yes it's a bit pricier, but we value our time.; 3/14/12, 10:47 PM
Anonymous said...: STFU Robert, we're men. We want a machine we can fix. That's a Wintel box running XP SP3.

Casca; 3/14/12, 11:28 PM
Timbeaux said...: I thank my stars that the company I work for is too cheap on IT to have upgraded from XP. I still use it on all my home machines too, which has gotten me the raised eyebrow treatment from the Geek Squad. I don't care. The only nuisances are that I can't open .xlsx files without reference errors, and I have to ask my clients to resave them as .xls and send them again.

They upgraded the servers recently, and now I can no longer sync folders from the server for offline use when I'm working onsite; major royal pain the Obama.; 3/15/12, 12:12 AM
Jess said...: Every time Microsoft upgrades, the nuts and bolts are pushed further into some hidey hole that requires geekdom to discover. I usually find them and regain control of my machine, although it requires some alcohol and cussing.; 3/15/12, 7:20 AM
El Jefe said...: Rodge, it's ALL Windows 5. Don't believe me? Just type in winver on ANY Windows box since NT from a command line and it'll come back with version 5.x

Just sayin'...; 3/15/12, 8:06 AM
El Jefe said...: BTW: There's a pattern here somewhere

Windows comparison; 3/15/12, 8:08 AM
Noah Little said...: El Jefe-

My Windows installation is Ver 6.1 and for Timbeaux, the Office conpatibility patch will fix that .xlsx problem for you.; 3/15/12, 8:19 AM
Anonymous said...: "We want a machine we can fix"

Well that's the rub isn't it. You can't "fix" windows. You can re-install it, but that ain't "fixing" it unless you mean "fix" like I meant it when I said I need to have my dog "fixed"

I work for one of the big three windows box sellers as a senior software engineer. (our startup was bought by them) ALL of the engineers use Macs.. Not because of the GUI but because of UNIX. The underlying UNIX OS is light years more secure than the windows. I reboot my system after an OS update. Otherwise I never "have" to reboot it, and it runs 24/7

It's just like buying a chainsaw. You can buy 4 homelites or one Stihl. You are going to pay the same either way, but one path has a lot less aggravation. Just my .02.. Anonymous, because of who I work for.. but I post here on a semi-regular basis.; 3/15/12, 11:19 AM
whitestone said...: ...hey, at least you don't work for the Gov. Our DOIM section has everyone running on Vista. Of course their mission statement is "The most secure computer is one that you can never use" and "if it isn't broken, keep fixing it till it is...".
I love those guys...; 3/15/12, 4:04 PM
Ralph Gizzip said...: Just remember, kids.

"Intel giveth. Microsoft taketh away."; 3/15/12, 5:39 PM

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Windows 8. Oye.

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