OT: So what does Win8 have going for it again?

Tattoo Vampire writes:

I've played with it some... other than the live tile doohickeys, and the
claim that it's supposedly less memory hungry, what makes this really
different from Windows 7?

Sure, I could Google around and see what the pundits say, but I'd rather
hear from the Windows people here as to why they will or won't
upgrade.

Well, the people to ask are the obvious candidates who make their money
from Windows SW and who actively enrich their CVs with Windows skillZ
and will probably be on the BETA anyway. In case you dont know these
are:

Gortard
Chris Ahlstrom
Peter Koehlmann
Rexx Ballard
turd
That kid who keeps boasting about his degree
Nobody
Kelsey
DFS
7


There's obviously a few more but there's enough to be going on with!

Glad to be of service ;)

A certain COLA "advocate" faking his user-agent in order to pretend to be a Linux
user: User-Agent: Outlook 5.5 (WinNT 5.0), User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0
(Linux), Message-ID:

On 8/19/12 8:13 PM, in article ,
"Hadron" wrote:

Tattoo Vampire writes:

I've played with it some... other than the live tile doohickeys, and the
claim that it's supposedly less memory hungry, what makes this really
different from Windows 7?

Sure, I could Google around and see what the pundits say, but I'd rather
hear from the Windows people here as to why they will or won't
upgrade.

Well, the people to ask are the obvious candidates who make their money
from Windows SW and who actively enrich their CVs with Windows skillZ
and will probably be on the BETA anyway. In case you dont know these
are:

Gortard
Chris Ahlstrom
Peter Koehlmann
Rexx Ballard
turd
That kid who keeps boasting about his degree
Nobody
Kelsey
DFS
7


There's obviously a few more but there's enough to be going on with!

Glad to be of service ;)

As an instructor I will get it and run it in a VM to learn it. Important
for me to keep up my job skills as well. Also I believe it is best to know
multiple options... only way to engage in "informed computing" - which is
better than focusing on just one tool.


* cc was unable to post a set of data that went back to 2007.
* cc is unable to post an Excel Workbook or otherwise back his claims.
* cc failed to show any sigma depiction I called wrong that was not.
* cc could not list a single step missed in making a linear trend line.

On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:38:18 -0400, Tattoo Vampire wrote:

what makes this really
different from Windows 7?

Makes your monitor look like a giant cell phone, with a large Internet
Explorer button and a large Purble Place button next to it.

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After swilling some grog, Tattoo Vampire belched this bit o' wisdom:

I've played with it some... other than the live tile doohickeys, and the
claim that it's supposedly less memory hungry, what makes this really
different from Windows 7?

Sure, I could Google around and see what the pundits say, but I'd rather
hear from the Windows people here as to why they will or won't upgrade.

I won't upgrade until forced to by buying a new laptop (at discounted
price, of course.)

Just bought a laptop this weekend. I saw some discounted HP laptops,
but they're now infected with UEFI, and I did not want to deal with that
bullshit at this time.

So I picked a Toshiba model. However, I did not find out until I
actually powered the fscker on that there is no way (as far as I can
tell) to access the BIOS before booting to Windows 7. I had to let that
crapware "prepare for first use", then google to find that there is a
*Windows* *app* that Toshiba provides to modify the BIOS.

Wonder who thought up that brainstorm? Feck!

Whats sad is Telnet Porter feeling he must tell a story about a woman in
his spare room using Firefox. Stop the press. Whats also funny is him
sending her home with a Linux install CD without warning her about the
programs that wont work anymore or all her email etc going up in smoke
when she installs it over Windows.
Still, another few hundred dollars in support income a few weeks down the
road eh Telnet? :-; You little devil you.
And then of course, on the other side his mealy mouth Porter tells us it
takes a minimum of ten years to use a Linux system properly. LOL. He was
doing a bit of an Ahlstrom then and showing off I agree.

"Chris Ahlstrom" schreef in bericht
news:k0t286$hqe$

After swilling some grog, Tattoo Vampire belched this bit o' wisdom:

I've played with it some... other than the live tile doohickeys, and the
claim that it's supposedly less memory hungry, what makes this really
different from Windows 7?

Sure, I could Google around and see what the pundits say, but I'd rather
hear from the Windows people here as to why they will or won't upgrade.

I won't upgrade until forced to by buying a new laptop (at discounted
price, of course.)

Nobody forces anything upon you, it's your own choice!
Just get a Linux machine, you whining creep!
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-laptop.html
"Linux Laptop Vendors"
"Now, you know how to choose a laptop, especially you need to pay attention
to wireless, video card and Ethernet card. And here is exact model names &
number that will be fully compatible to LINUX and vendor website (the list
is for information and ready references only; please do your own research
before purchasing system):
Dell sales Ubuntu Laptop in USA, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Spain and
Latin America. (See official Ubuntu page). Dell India also sales high end
Redhat Linux based laptop for business use.
HCL provides Ubuntu / Redhat / Fedora Linux based laptop in India.
Acer India provide Aspire series Linux based laptop in India.
HP Novell / Suse Linux certification and support matrix for HP laptops.
Asus Linux based eeepc netbooks in USA, India, UK, and various other places
across the globe.
EmperorLinux provides Linux laptops with full hardware support under Linux
in USA.
LinuxCertified provide Linux laptop and support in USA.
Linuxemporium provide Linux laptop and support in UK.
System76 provides Ubuntu Linux laptop and support in USA and Canada.
Zareason provides Ubuntu Linux laptop in USA, but claims to ship to many
other places across the globe."