- Get rid of IE??? LOL what would you use to install chrome?
- windows 7 is dead, people just have not had the wake yet.
- bill gates does not have a say on the OS design anymore
The cost of the windows OS is only a few percent of my computing cost over the last 5 years. Microsoft is pretty stupid on their cost model for the OS and I like that.
Microsoft has always wanted to make a unified interface, it drives their costs down for development and support.
They merged DOS into a window 3.x system, and into a OS/2 subsystem, then later merged the windows interface to replace the OS/2 PM interface and renamed it to NT and started the series that today is windows. It has always been clear that they intended to merge the windows phone, xbox and the windows interface. They were just not too clever about it.
most 64 bit native code should be faster than the 32 bit code. the 32bit code will be slower on a 64 bit processor because of the various overhead to support the 32 bit code in the sub system. (what 7% to 10 % slower?)
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What a joke. Microsoft said it would be similar to XP now this turn. Will it ever quit? I have XP VISTA 7 AND 8/8.1. I found no major flaws between XP to 7. 8/8.1 however is a complete waste of space and so forth. I read through Yahoo news yesterday that W9 would only be free to a select few windows 8 user not across the board as stated here.
Well once again I am not impressed. They are ending support for 7 in Oct unless you hbought your unit with it pre-installed.
I have to agree with: someguynamedmatt on his response to this.
I also add that this is a major deterrent for those of us who do not use a cellphone with internet (other than text). We were promised basically a remake of Windowos XP but with better security Not another system heading towards the looks of a cell phones OS. Microsoft is obviously not listening at all to customers.
Somehow to me this seems like another Windows 8 in disguise. Microsoft is jealous of the cell phone OS and could care less anymore about people who still use a pc.
Gates needs to get his head out of his ASS or at least have a Window put in is stomach so he could see what's really going on.
Microsoft needs to re-incorporate Dos. a lot of business still use Dos (many state facilities). They need to make Windows smaller and less reliant on processor and other resources. Get ridd of all the crap rarely anyone uses (home users) and have bare bones to say the least.Ok granted they have various version home pro business and so on but there should be only 2 versions. I am tired of buying a system loaded with Microsoft crap I don't use or is only limited time (office).
I just spoke of this yesterday on facebook. Get rid of things such as IE since more and more have turned to either firefox or chrome. Ie takes up a lot and is not a true tabbed browser. I set to open in other tab and instead a new window opens. Get rid of the fax viewer character map sound recorder and a bunch of other things I would consider more for businesses than the common person.
Personally I have never had any issues that Microsoft claimed there are on XP. Other than the system itself on being slow (old hardware non up-gradable) it works fine with a lot of today's programs still.
Here's something for those who gave up XP if you still have your XP disc. Microsoft only stopped putting out new updates You can still download all the updates up til this past April. I rebooted my old XP unit made a backup of all updates just on the off-hand they removed them. but they didn't. You will need to manually though download a bunch of them in order to get the correct Updater for windows.
Quick question for everyone who has had both x64 and x32 is it me or is x64 actually slower? Also I have not seen a x32 since my Win 7 unit in the stores. ((Walmart Staples Best Buy etc).?