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Time to say something good about Microsoft for once

#102
MIJ-VI said:
Assuming that one already has a legal Windows 7 Ultimate license (~ $200) for each PC (IMO there's no point in buying the feature reduced versions of Win 7) that one intends to use, and assuming that one's hardware runs Win 7 well...
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Count me out. I have an ancient Dell laptop.

Having to keep up with the latest & greatest HW is a hidden cost of bloated proprietary OS',
 
#104
Ray Salamon said:
Perhaps, but also, the software companies often were unable to push out drivers for the new architecture as well. Microsoft can't be held accountable for 3rd parties lack of ability to keep pace.
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iirc a lot of problems were also caused because microsoft was very vague about what uac would and wouldn't allow - developers were told "to play nice".

how do you develop "nicely"?
 
#105
bassk81976 said:
iirc a lot of problems were also caused because microsoft was very vague about what uac would and wouldn't allow - developers were told "to play nice".

how do you develop "nicely"?
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Not really... SDK's were available way in advance of Vista's release. I think I first got my hands on one about 4 months before Vista came out. I'm sure software and hardware vendors had theirs before that, even.
 
#108
Ray Salamon said:
Security thought obscurity is in fact, not security at all. Mac people have been hiding behind this for ages now as well, and now that Macs are finally gaining a lot of market share, are finding their fair share of attacks (zero-day exploits, malware/spyware etc.). That'll trickle to *nix users really fast too, since OSX isn't much of a step from there ;).
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To an extent that's true. However, whereas Windows and Mac users get many of their applications from all over the Internet--including from 'warez' sites, wiser Ubuntu users source their apps from...

What are Repositories?

There are literally thousands of Ubuntu programs available to meet the needs of Ubuntu users. Many of these programs are stored in software archives commonly referred to as repositories. Repositories make it very easy to install new software onto Ubuntu using an Internet connection, while also providing a high level of security, as each program available in the repositories is thoroughly tested and built specifically for each version of Ubuntu...
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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu

Then there's this...

Is Open Source Software More Secure than Proprietary Products?
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#109
fdeck said:
Developeers who skipped vista and went straight to 7 had very few issues.
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Yup, and those same developers who SKIPPED VISTA, obviously were treading the line for opening themselves to potential issues with Vista. It's not that it's harder to program for or anything like that, it's just that there were significant changes that needed taken into account, that a lot of places didn't. MS got the bad rep for most of it, but the vendors should've gotten their fair share as well.
 
#110
UncleFluffy said:
Without wanting to cross any NDA boundaries, stuff changed a lot, annoyingly close to the line.
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I heard one other person say this once over at [H] forums, but he also wasn't able to elaborate. I know that there were changes up until roughly a week before RTM, but from what I gathered and first hand observed, they weren't so profound to cause serious issues. But, I don't make my living doing programming, just do a lot of it on the side, so it could be that I just didn't notice.
 

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