I prefer the fact that Windows XP can run on just about about any hardware. I am also very familiar with some of the command-based commands that you can do with it (like "cdburn" to burn a CD ISO, for example). Otherwise, it's definitely getting dated.
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Is there anything positive in Windows XP?
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One thing that XP does very well is something that OSX does terribly, or not at all.
Keyboard shortcuts. God I love 'em and XP makes them so simple.
That one feature is the reason I work *so* much quicker in MS Office on XP than on OSX.
I can't believe the way MS does it is patented or copyrighted so why Apple don't do it that way I'll never know. I thought OSX was about making it simple to use the computer for 'the rest of us'.
Keyboard shortcuts. God I love 'em and XP makes them so simple.
That one feature is the reason I work *so* much quicker in MS Office on XP than on OSX.
I can't believe the way MS does it is patented or copyrighted so why Apple don't do it that way I'll never know. I thought OSX was about making it simple to use the computer for 'the rest of us'.
visual studio - I still prefer it to devtools. and c#.net with visual studio is a very easy program to write gui based programs very quickly for windows. I know it is an m$ language but its a shame that c# isn't supported on osx (yes I know about cocoa sharp and the mono project but both are quite frankly rubbish)
Two "best things":
1) I don't own it, or have to use it.
2) It's where the virus/trogan/worm makers make their mischief.
1) I don't own it, or have to use it.
2) It's where the virus/trogan/worm makers make their mischief.
contoursvt said:
lol!I'm not pretentious, I'm just better than XP users because I use OSX
To be honest, I wish OSX had Paint, as was mentioned earlier. It's great to be able to quickly visualise ideas, diagrams etc. Also, when I first switched, I prefered the way XP put saved items into folders. I found it much easier to organise work. For the first two months with my Mac I kept everything on the desktop because I didn't know how to organise folders.
But now, using Windows XP for anything other than Explorer frustrates me. I MUCH prefer using Office for OSX than for XP.
Wow -- I was hoping to see intelligent conversation and useful support here, not a rehash of the usual "anti-Windows" refrain that is all too common in the Mac World.
OK, so you like Mac -- a lot! That's great. But don't forget that about 90% of the world's PC run Windows -- not Mac. And that's actually one of the things that I like most about it. Wherever I go in the world I can log in to an internet cafe -- running Windows -- or someone else's system -- running Windows -- and I know precisely how I can do just about whatever I want to do with it.
The thing that made Mac great originally -- all of the UI features and "cool stuff" -- really came about because it was such a "closed box". That was great in many ways but it also was a real "shot in the foot" as it closed off a lot of possible development work.
Regardless of all of that -- how about just recognizing that it does work and that 90% of the personal computing users of the world can't be completely wrong.
OK, so you like Mac -- a lot! That's great. But don't forget that about 90% of the world's PC run Windows -- not Mac. And that's actually one of the things that I like most about it. Wherever I go in the world I can log in to an internet cafe -- running Windows -- or someone else's system -- running Windows -- and I know precisely how I can do just about whatever I want to do with it.
The thing that made Mac great originally -- all of the UI features and "cool stuff" -- really came about because it was such a "closed box". That was great in many ways but it also was a real "shot in the foot" as it closed off a lot of possible development work.
Regardless of all of that -- how about just recognizing that it does work and that 90% of the personal computing users of the world can't be completely wrong.
I'd bet the contents of my trousers that a very, very large propotion of that 90% do not choose to use MS's Windows OS based on a comparison and appraisal of all the available OSs.drval said:
Many corporate networks, with hundreds of users that use MS Windows but the choice of OS was probably made by one IT manager.
I wonder what the percentage of choices is for each OS, and then I wonder if you asked only the people who had compared OSs what those percentages would be?
Not having to pay for a functional version of Windows explorer - $35
Games - $100's
Not having to listen to fanboys constantly dissing *nix and os x - Priceless.
Seriously guys, how bigoted are you? Most of the world uses XP. If it were really a PoS that you all make it out to be, everyone would have switched to nix or OS X eons ago. So seriously, XP has sooo many things done right that OS X just lacks.
Paint is one of those. Yeah, I have Photoshop, but if I just want to draw a line on a photo, I have yet to find a descent image editing app for OS X besides a $500 program. Rediculous, especially when XP comes with one right out of the box.
Finder. OS X users, know what FTFF means? Not even a windows fanboy would know what that means.. windows explorer works.
Alt+tab works, the start menu.. sometimes a pain, but just as useful. The task bar. I dunno, there's something nice about being able to choose which window of a certain program you want to see, instead of having to hunt for it.
I could go on, but let me leave it at this. If you run a clean system by being safe about downloads and use firefox, the differences between OS X and XP is minimal at best. Maybe OS X looks better, or XP feels snappier, but damn... I'll be completely honest, I have my mac mini sitting at home accessable via VNC, and I brought my XP laptop to college, and except for the 30 gigs of music I have stored on my mac (which I don't have the space for on my laptop), there's nothing I miss about my mac mini that XP can't do just as well.
P.S.
Games - $100's
Not having to listen to fanboys constantly dissing *nix and os x - Priceless.
Seriously guys, how bigoted are you? Most of the world uses XP. If it were really a PoS that you all make it out to be, everyone would have switched to nix or OS X eons ago. So seriously, XP has sooo many things done right that OS X just lacks.
Paint is one of those. Yeah, I have Photoshop, but if I just want to draw a line on a photo, I have yet to find a descent image editing app for OS X besides a $500 program. Rediculous, especially when XP comes with one right out of the box.
Finder. OS X users, know what FTFF means? Not even a windows fanboy would know what that means.. windows explorer works.
Alt+tab works, the start menu.. sometimes a pain, but just as useful. The task bar. I dunno, there's something nice about being able to choose which window of a certain program you want to see, instead of having to hunt for it.
I could go on, but let me leave it at this. If you run a clean system by being safe about downloads and use firefox, the differences between OS X and XP is minimal at best. Maybe OS X looks better, or XP feels snappier, but damn... I'll be completely honest, I have my mac mini sitting at home accessable via VNC, and I brought my XP laptop to college, and except for the 30 gigs of music I have stored on my mac (which I don't have the space for on my laptop), there's nothing I miss about my mac mini that XP can't do just as well.
P.S.
I've been playing that a lot lately (on XP no less). Amazing game!kalun said:You apparently have never try STARCRAFT