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>> Travis McCoy said, on June 26th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
>>OH GOD I CAN’T ENCRYPT UNLESS I BUY THE EXPENSIVE VERSION
>> I’d be suprised if a full 1% of microsoft’s userbase encrypted files
And, apparently, that’s how Microsoft wants it.
If MS built transparent security right into the OS (every version!) and apps, then everybody would use it.
But they refuse to do that, despite the crisis of privacy-loss, fraud and ID theft on the internet.
#17 GregA said
What Uncle Dave said. He corrected YOUR oversite.
Again… look at the psystar lawsuit. OS X boxed editions come with no licence to run OS X. That is not an operating system, that is a service pack. That is the official Apple position on the issue.
The only way to buy an OS X operating systems is on a mac computer. Additionally, installing those boxed versions of the software cancels your original version of the software, it is service pack, it says so right in the EULA.
#32
There are plenty of great free file and full disk encryption tools like Truecrypt.
I’d even say they’re preferable. I’m not sure I trust closed source encryption tools like Bitlocker.
Apple has 1 version of Snow Leopard – $29.00
Yes, Microsoft has MANY more computers to work on, but I’ve installed Windows 7 Ultimate from new computers to 4 year old computers. I’ve installed it on at LEAST 7 kinds/brands of computers. And Ultimate alone works fine on all those computers.
They cripple it on purpose, simple as that.
One would think that they would have learned from Vista. Microsoft will ALWAYS be Microsoft. They hardly ever learn from their mistakes.
I hope it’s as good as WXP Pro 64 bit.
Most of Microsoft garbage OS users are just home lamas, using their PCs for web browsing, email, IM and occasional burning of a disc with pictures or films.
I say 90% of Windoze users are exactly this.
They don’t need Windows 7, Vista or even XP.
I’m sure Windows 2000 would still serve them well now and in next few years to come.
Yet they think they need “new windoze” because they are brainwashed dumbos, believing in everything they were told by “authorities” (and Msoft falls into this category, at least in their twisted minds).
Look at Enterprise and Ultimate. They are identical. The sole difference is they are licensed differently. Why do we need two names for the same version? And why not more? Why not call the retail version of Ultimate/Enterprise Windows 7 for System Builders.
I just looked at wikipedia, where the chart’s from. Ultimate may also be called “Maximum” in some markets. There will also be an “E” variant of every version, which will be sold in the EU and won’t include IE.
I think Microsoft is trying to pull a GM. GM sells the same car under different brand names, and, say, changes the headlights and radio. Microsoft sells the same OS under many names, with some features removed from some versions.
#39: To be fair, Enterprise volume licensing can also mean a custom package/setup for large-scale deployment, especially considering that Vista/Win7 use a modular imaging installer rather than a traditional file-arrangement installer. For a large scale deployment, you can create multiple install versions using the same base volume license copy for all of your different hardware configurations.
Whereas with Ultimate, it’s a single-default-install to one machine.
#30 – I hate stupid words too, like lawyer.
Six Versions of Win7 ??? That’s Ballmer’s P&G experience showing !!! What else would you expect from a Soap Salesman ??? Cutting the “Product” into different sized “Cakes” !!!
Been working on my wife’s Mac for two days to remove the $100/year MobileMe package (annoying, but it’s gone now), then putting on Thunderbird and GMail to replace it (turned out to be easy with a little reading).
The next biggest annoyance was fighting the MacOS user interface. Sorry Mac OSX people, you users would be better off using the underlying BSD Unix than the Mac OSX interface. Even the user interface on the old Macs was better.
By comparison, my experience with Vista has been a piece of cake for two years–no blue screens. I hope Win7 is as good…
As a kid raised by my public school system to use Mac OS…Windows is the only way. Linux lacks two key elements: Common software compatibility and a user-focus design, and Mac’s are too Cult of Apple focused to notice that they aren’t as open and free-form (yes, I said that about MS, but really, you can do nearly anything to the OS and the hardware you want to to make it your own, and if you can’t, the software is out there) as Windows.
Now, hopefully when I get Win7, I won’t have the weird-ass soft-crash issues Firefox seems to have on Vista.
I agree with Sea Lawyer. When did “embiggen” become a real word? That’s not very cromulent.
#30,47: All words were “made up” at one time or another. Embiggen has been around for a while now and it has entered the American, neigh, the world’s conscious usage like a tick burrs into sunburned skin.
If it’s good enough for one, Homer Simpson, it’s good enough you! It’s even in the Springfield theme song, for cripes sake!
“That a people might embiggen America,
that a man might embiggen his soul.”
Now if the word I invented — Interwebitubes — right here on the blog would go into widespread use, the world would be a better, embiggened place!
Microsoft is falling victim to the market segment obsession like intel did, where they intentionally were disabling CPU caches in order to “fit” a certain price point.
Retarded, but nothing new. Howzabout Microsoft’s obsession with Standard and Enterprise versions of the same software, with a huge premium tacked onto extra features rarely used.
Well, I have both a mac and a pc in front of me right now. Generally speaking, the mac gives me less trouble and is a lot easier to write “ad hoc” programs for, but the pc is much more compatible with 3rd party software.
I also have experience in Linux and Unix, and while I find their power to be great if you are willing to overlook certain refinements (and in the case of Linux, any sense of UI consistency), they are mainly only useful as servers.
Speaking as a 7 year member of Comptia and someone who works on computers all day, I can tell you that fanatics in all courts are generally wrong.
#45 – You just aren’t used to the UI.. trust me on that one, it’s like anything else, takes a while to get used to… Mac users moving to PC’s have just as much problems.
The entire thing with having several different versions of the same OS is disappointing, and will hurt M$ in the long run. (There is no better faster way to disgruntle customers than to make them FEEL as if the are being ripped off, even if they aren’t.)
It is a nightmare for potential developers as well, as they will have several different possible feature sets on any given box.
As to #3 “Would it be smarter for them to simply have one product? Sure, but computer manufacturers would have a fit.”…
That insight is preposterous… Computer manufacturers hate it most of all, because they have to preemptively guess their customers wants and then perform the equivalent of paying to have their support staff to be trained SIX TIMES… (So that they know which solutions will work for which customers..)
Anyway, just my 2 cents..
Chris