Windows versus the World: Royal Rumble I

[faust9]

Don't open up Email attachements from strangers. Common sense.

Well, the attachment wasn't from a stranger. I don't recall the name of the virus but this particular bug read the names from the outlook contacts list and then sent a random infected file from MyDocuments to each person.

I was running AV software, my wife knows better to open attachments from unknown senders yet we were still infected. It was another year before M$ added the ability to prevent downloading files from E-Mail, and the virus the attacked us wasn't the first to exploit Outlooks inability to prevent malicious code from attacking.

Call me crazy, but I use Koffice. It's pretty similar to appleworks which I've used for a while now also. I like word's ability to format text in tables but that's about it.

 

[Dagenais]

I don't live in Canada or USA (it sais so right under my name on the left though) and here all we have is Windows on every computer. And I said any OS. All I want is the same choice I get for computer parts. I can buy a processor from Intel , AMD or Transmeta at a large range of frequency. I want a full list of OSes from Win to FreeBSD.

You refuse to download a free version of Linux? It's more profitiable to sell Windows on your computer, and you would do it too if you owned a large computer manufacturing company.

YOU have a choice because the people from the Open Source Community fought for it. The world is not just Canada and SUA...

Hardly. Wal-mart just sells them because they are cheap. Maybe Mandrake cut a deal with them, but otherwise "fight" is an exaggeration.

 

[The_Professional]

If you really want to mess with the command line and learn more about your computer. Go ahead and partition your hard drive and install Linux or any variant of Unix. Just make sure you pick up a book. You're going to need it. And practice, practice, practice.

If you're just a casual user then go Windows XP...and pick up a book on modifying the registry to do certain things...etc..there's fun stuff to mess around with.

 

[Dr Transport]

I have worked with almost all of the OS's out there, from DOS, to WIN* (all variants), MAC way back before they went to the iMAC, to half a dozen of the *NIX's also, to include LINUX most recently with Mandrake. Every OS has its pluses and minuses, my employer has just recently switched to WinXP Pro, without too much trouble. The reason behind this is to drop all of their IBM RS6000 boxes, they were very slow and expensive. In industry, cost effectiveness is the bottom line. They replaced theses systems to go to high end workstations running all of our software on WIN platform. Everyone is much happier, except us guys who run codes on *nix boxes exclusively and we only log into the PC network to log our time and check email.

OS's are chosen with the bottom line in mind in corporate America. If I forced the company to go to LINUX and run everything on that system, our subcontractors who run WIN exclusively would scream to no end because of compatability. In my house, my family is addicted to Windows, I stay there because I have to. My Linux box only gets fired up on the weekends because that is when my wife and kids use the computer the least. In the last couple of weeks they have become addicted to Tux Racer, so I suspect that the Win box will be running less and less.

The bottom line is that people stick with the comfortable. If we were all forced into runing a command line at the begining, we would do it now. Mac and Win forced the GUI onto us and we liked it. When I run a *nix box, I run thru the command line, Win thru a GUI. Stabilitywise, I have not had problems with either, they run and run. Only when I surf the internet do I have problems with IE crashing, and only on certain sites.

My vote is for what ever you feel comfortable with that does the job at hand.

 

[Guybrush Threepwood]

You refuse to download a free version of Linux?

damn right. You would refuse too if you'd had a dial-up and have to pay the phone company the cost of your call. Not everybody has free local calls all over the world you know ... I'll tell you again, Canada is not the whole world, some things you take for granted there are next to imposible someplace else.

It's more profitiable to sell Windows on your computer, and you would do it too if you owned a large computer manufacturing company.

yeh, probably because if I owned a large computer manufacturing company MS would sell me Win to the real price of the software - the price of the CD ...

 

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Every OS has its pluses and minuses

yes that's true. linux has same minuses also but unfortunately a lot of people seem to think that Windows is the ultimate OS when it really is just one not so good OS who has 95% market share through unfair monopoly ...