OT: Redmond
Lisa Kachold
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Fri Jan 16 14:07:16 MST 2009
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From: bob.elzer at gmail.com
To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: RE: OT: Redmond
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:04:22 -0700
And lets not forget about DRM and the logs that Vista/Win7
will be keeping.
I can't wait for DRM, it's mind boggling trying to make
decisions of what I want to watch or listen to, DRM takes those hard decisions
out of my hands and tells me I shouldn't be watching or listening to, this will
make my life so much easier.
And if one of those nasty unallowed files does sneak
through, and I forget about it, win 7s hidden log files will make sure no one
else does.
It just make life so much easier
:-)
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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Joe
Fleming
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 12:07 PM
To: Main
PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: OT: Redmond
I don't know that they are specifically targeting
that market. I mean, most of the netbooks run vista already. Run over the Fry's
if you don't believe me..... all of their netbooks on display are running vista.
It was enough to make me not want to buy any of them, but I digress. I've read
the m$ has claimed that the reason most of them can't is because of the lack of
storage space, a problem that 7 clearly doesn't solve.
As for the storage
space, my Ubuntu install is using about 10GB right now. Of course, that's with
an office suite, a webserver, a few websites, my email, a bunch of pictures and
documents accumulated over the 2 years it's been installed (over 3GB in my home
directory right now)...... that's kind of the same, right? I mean, kinda,
right?
For the life of me I can't understand how the hell they use up so
much space for JUST the operating system! As an aside, I read that IE8 uses more
memory that the whole of XP too. Crazy.
-Joe
keith smith
wrote:
So can we speculate that M$ is making Vista/win7 less
resource intensive so it can compete in the netbook
environment.
I understand it takes up about 10 Gigs of
space.
Would be nice to have an O/S that requires less and
is more efficient. Maybe we can recycle some old hardware
:)
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Keith Smith
--- On Fri, 1/16/09,
Josh Coffman <joshcoffman at gmail.com>
wrote:
From:
Josh Coffman <joshcoffman at gmail.com>
Subject:
Re: OT: Redmond
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date:
Friday, January 16, 2009, 9:59 AM
From what I hear, and this is from .Net devs who
are running win7, its described as "Vista without the crap". It
performs nearly as fast as WinXP and with far lighter hardware
requirements than Vista. (which isn't hard) From the screenshots
I've seen, it has a lighter look and feel that Vista, but that's just
"make-up". I'm going to make a vmware machine with it so I'll
see for myself. Since it will be on the same machine (mac) as my
WinXP vm (which I do use a lot), I'll be able to compare them
easily.
Vista was a near daily frustration, either I've gotten
used to the pain or its gotten a little less painful. Probably both. I
still don't like Vista. I have to deal with it though. So I hope Win7
is better, a lot better, because windows a part of my job.
As
an aside, I use Vista, WinXP, and Mac OSX a lot. Ubuntu holds itws own
againts all of them. I've read some people think Win7 is a linux
killer (speaking of the netbook market). I don't buy that at all.
-j
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Joe Fleming
<joe at selectitaly.com>
wrote:
I'm really curious what all the fuss over
windows 7 is all about. I mean, it's just vista with a few changes,
and from what I can tell those changes are pretty small. I always
think it's funny seeing sites talk about how bad vista is and how
much better 7 is, considering it's really nothing more than a point
release/service pack with a new name. Apparently m$ actually DOES
know how to play the marketing game. It'll be interesting to see how
it's received by consumers and the press when it's finally released
I guess. Me, I still don't have any problem running XP; works
beautifully in VirtualBox ;).
-Joe
James
Finstrom wrote:
I like to imagine it is because I am
important or that its because I went to church with many Microsoft
cube gnomes when I lived in Washington but none of these things
are true simply because I am on a Microsoft Spam list I got an
invitation and license to download and play with Windows 7 beta.
So let me share the expierience and overview so far I like things
with the word free even if it is only as in beer and only for a
short time, Anyhow with fear and the smell of danger that
acompanies all things that say Microsoft and Beta in the same
typography I clicked the shiny banner answered a few questions and
got a key + link. the minimum requirements say 1Gig ram and
128M video and blah blah something something okay whatever
click.... Anyhow the download comes up says this could take
several days depending on your provider and the download size
is...... 2.44 GIG holy redhat batman I need to go buy a dvd to
burn this down to, well so much for free. Anyhow it is chewing up
some bandwith that can be better allocated but I am going to grab
it if for nothing else just to see if http://xkcd.com/528/ is
true...
James Finstrom
Rhino Equipment
Corp.
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