7 Ways You Will Save Money with Windows 7

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fiorenze of OR @ Aug 06, 2009 07:53:35 AM

General users are habitual

They are used to the Windows way.. and they will continue going in this direction. Now, OSX is a great OS but the apple hardware is just over priced.. and Apple does not seem to care, they just want to hold on to the niche market and earn big bucks from those who can afford it. Linux on the other hand, has made a lot of improvements but the story goes on.. it does not have the software base.. yes it is probably more stable than Windows... but not Newbie friendly enough (commandline? please!).You can call the general public dumb and they are still going to use Windows. If Windows 7 is what it promised to be, then Microsoft will stay mainstream for the years to come. I like to see an alternative but its just not happening, yet!

Someone @ May 21, 2009 08:43:13 AM

WTF are you smoking

backwards compatiblity an issue in Linux....The emus out there that even cap old C64 where winhose barely supports anything beyond one gen back? Socailistic programmers around the world outnumber M.Shaft's money. They laid off 5000 developers, you say they have the power to develop support after that...Orson The Technoid of CA, are you a Microsoft Grand Dragon Wizard? do you wear a blue sheet and Windows logo on a chain? Sounds like it, if companies out there want good development, go get Linux on AS400 hardware and use Java. You don't have to kiss the blue cloth anymore. For desktop junkies, Linux is so supported with Ubuntu it it isn't even a contest against M$.

The Unicorn of Memphis of TN @ Apr 14, 2009 11:08:04 AM

Try taking a step back

Old Man Dotes has a point, as does Philip Fry. After 32 years in software and technology development across many platforms, I have to say that some folks seem been convinced that MS is the definition of the computing world.

Early on, Microsoft captured an overwhelming market share because of smart positioning. They have been pretty successful in maintaining their grip on computing culture.

To be fair, they've gotten a lot of software to work together, in general, and there are many good ideas to be found in their various products. Also, the problem space they've adopted - including broad back-n-forward compatibility and product ubiquity - is very complex.

That having been said, however, they spend staggering amounts of money for disappoingly flawed results, and focus on finding new ways to capture market dollars before they've matured their last attempt. All the Windows OS versions and virtually all products are overly complex and very poorly documented. The Windows development world is highly inbred, and spends a major farction of its resources on finding answers to intrinsic or historical Windows problems, rather than seeking good computing solutions.

If you find yourself sounding like Master1, above, you're not thinking about what's good for computing and society at large- you're a Microsoft apologist.

Do Linux or other shareware Unix offspring have the investment base and marketing budgets that Windows has? Nope. Do they have the samed installed base? Nope. Are they perfect? Nope.

Are they nonetheless simpler, more reliable, more efficient and generally less buggy? Yep, but they don't have the money to build in the aftermarket products needed to capture share of installed base.

Don't kid yourself, agressive marketing efforts can overwhelm product superiority. MS will continue to do anything it sees as necessary in order to maintain its chokehold on computing. I think that only a heroically capitalized, strategically oriented competitive effort with a similar goal could make a real dent (this has not really been Apple's focus - they've targeted a niche, not market share, and concentrate too much on coolness for my taste). I wish Apple - or somebody - would address the general need for low-cost, simple personal computing.

Since such an effort seems unlikely to materialize, I can only hope that MS will do better with Windows 7 than with past versions. If this has occurred, it will have more to do with evolutionary progress than improvement in product philosophyor development process approach; it's not likely they've become less inbred or more dedicated to quality products.

Orson The Technoid of CA @ Apr 09, 2009 15:06:54 PM

Anything To End My Vista Moments!!!

As a 30 yr. veteran of the computer game using everything from IBM OCL 360/370, AS400, Microvax, DEC, Honeywell, Risc6000 and all PCs from Timex, Commodore, Win1.0 to Vista, the first thing I learned was to write an initialization module for every application written for a MicroShaft machine. These guys want to sell everything and maintain nothing. They make big bucks from complicating the simple and then selling the fixes for their software lapses. I retired from the game in 2005 never looking back and never regretting anything but Vista has burned my buns since they spend more resources advertising how great it is rather than fixing the darned thing!!!

Ray Fisher of NM @ Mar 13, 2009 21:08:43 PM

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student of CO @ Mar 13, 2009 13:56:57 PM

I agree with Bob Dole

Dude ubuntu is a great os when you leran to us it. You can get it for free to and no viruses i use ubuntu and its a great and much better change than microsoft. Linux haters suck there mad cause they cant use a quality os.

Jeffrey Simmons of FL @ Mar 13, 2009 12:47:57 PM

You Suck Microsoft!!

Oh well this will be hacked and modded just like xp vista everything this is the reason linux rules Screw you microsoft.

BOB DOLE of FL @ Mar 13, 2009 12:43:51 PM