I wonder if if will follow the usual tick-tock of Windows releases: i.e. 98 good, ME bad, XP good, Vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 10 good, (11 bad?)
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The US Air Force still has its ICBM launch program on 8-inch floppies, which is actually really secure, since it's not a networked system and is essentially unhackable.
Macs use files called plist which is the equivalent. You mess around /system/library or /library, you could render your system or apps unstable just as easy as making windows unstable with the registry.
But does that apply under Big Sur, with its locked System Volume?
I understand that when you boot under Big Sur you are using a working copy of the System Volume. I haven't tried it, but if it becomes corrupted, it gets replaced with a good copy when you reboot.
As well, there is no one Grand Unified Plist File. Each application and subsystem may have its own plist file. Corrupting one may stop one thing, but not the whole OS.
I don't quite agree with this since I have used pretty much all those versions.
98 was actually not that good. The good one was 98 SE. ME was actually good, it's more stable to me than 98. But there's win2k with its NT origin that took the cake. XP was a mess initially, until SP2. Vista was the stepchild since many PCs were under specced back then, but it lay the groundwork for 7. People think 7 is better simply because the hardware caught up. 8 was completely underrated. 8 was actually faster than 7, but people don't like the start screen.
Imo 11 will be just one of those feature update for Windows 10. The current Windows 10 is already quite different than the first version.
True, as I've mentioned before there are surprisingly many companies using apps from the early 2000s and even from the 90s. Those aren't apps that you can just find from Google, but many companies have their own specific apps. Microsoft can't move on as easily as Apple.
There are still some database systems running on SCO UNIX. An OS from...1969 originally???
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if some old mainframes with those spinning tape reels running some Fortran are still going somewhere. They just don't make 'em like they used to. You just don't get rid of whatever is working.
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if some old mainframes with those spinning tape reels running some Fortran are still going somewhere. They just don't make 'em like they used to. You just don't get rid of whatever is working.
How does the system know if a system related plist file is corrupted? I didn’t think plist files had any sort of error checking.
I would bank on some type of System File Checking that can compare the files on both partitions, and if one is noticeably corrupted, it replaces that with the backup. Windows has been doing that since XP/2K.
That’s why back in day Apple bought Next to get the BSD open Unix operating system beside Steve Jobs! This resulted into the Mac OS X beta!
More accurately, they bought Next for NextStep, not BSD, They didn't need to buy Next to start using BSD, where as NextStep offered a full graphical OS that would be far easier to modify for the mac
With all the resources they have, they still can't figure out how to make a usable file manager with tabs. Shame on you Microsoft. Just hire a decent UI designer already.
The terrible thing is that the company I work for makes me use Windows at work. If I weren't forced, I would want nothing to do with anything Microsoft or Google does.
The terrible thing is that the company I work for makes me use Windows at work. If I weren't forced, I would want nothing to do with anything Microsoft or Google does.
Microsoft is one step ahead of you.
Panos Panay will lead the Windows Experience in addition to Microsoft's hardware efforts
Microsoft will combine two of its large teams under the leadership of Panos Panay.
www.windowscentral.com
You should give this application a try.
Files App - Download and install on Windows | Microsoft Store
Introducing Files, the ultimate file manager for Windows. With its sleek and intuitive design, navigating through your files and documents has never been easier. Files features tabs for easy switching between different folders, a column layout for quick file browsing, and dual pane support for...
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That would be jumping out of the frying pan into the fire... I'd rather stop using computers.
I used to work for one of the largest credit unions in the US. Our primary computer program was ©1985. It used a command-line interface and was older than a fair percentage of the employees using it.
Fortunately, our PCs were running Windows 7 Enterprise Edition, not MS-DOS or Windows 1.0.
Indeed. Apple is the lesser of two evils these days. I remember John Siracusa saying that Windows isn't even good enough to be criticized (I'm paraphrasing). That's starting to apply to Apple's operating systems as well. The annoyances are piling up and I've long stopped caring to give Apple feedback. I think I'm just starting to hate computers in general.
Ok, I have been playing with Win 11 now for a few days.
Initially I run it as a Virtual Machine under Parallels. I was impressed that it worked so well for an initial beta.
I have expressed elsewhere that I think it is basically Win 10 with a shiny new coat of paint, and some performance tweaks. So have a number of others, including Chris Titus on YouTube.
I have now installed it as a native install on a USB 3 Flash drive, via Hasleo's WinToUSB, and am running it off my iMac.
I manually installed the WindowsSupport software package.
I am impressed enough that this will be my main Windows for the near future. All the software I normally use has installed and is running nicely.
However, while some things are a little faster and snappier than Win 10, Win 11 is still much slower than macOS or Linux, using the same software on the same hardware.
For example, compiling the lshort.tex file that comes with the TeXLive installation takes 22 seconds on Win 10 and Win 11, but 10 seconds on macOS and 8 seconds on Ubuntu Linux.
Opening a large Word file (the text of Darwin's Origin of Species) takes about 3.5 seconds on Win 11 and 2.5 on macOS.
Opening the same file with LibreOffice and WPS Office is quicker still. IOW, using Microsoft software opening a Microsoft document under a Microsoft OS is slower than opening the same document with a Linux based software on macOS.
BTW, none of the reviews I have read have mentioned that if you right-click on the Windows Start Button, a whole host of goodies appear, including Task Manager, PowerShell and Computer-, Device- and Disk-Management.
Initially I run it as a Virtual Machine under Parallels. I was impressed that it worked so well for an initial beta.
I have expressed elsewhere that I think it is basically Win 10 with a shiny new coat of paint, and some performance tweaks. So have a number of others, including Chris Titus on YouTube.
I have now installed it as a native install on a USB 3 Flash drive, via Hasleo's WinToUSB, and am running it off my iMac.
I manually installed the WindowsSupport software package.
I am impressed enough that this will be my main Windows for the near future. All the software I normally use has installed and is running nicely.
However, while some things are a little faster and snappier than Win 10, Win 11 is still much slower than macOS or Linux, using the same software on the same hardware.
For example, compiling the lshort.tex file that comes with the TeXLive installation takes 22 seconds on Win 10 and Win 11, but 10 seconds on macOS and 8 seconds on Ubuntu Linux.
Opening a large Word file (the text of Darwin's Origin of Species) takes about 3.5 seconds on Win 11 and 2.5 on macOS.
Opening the same file with LibreOffice and WPS Office is quicker still. IOW, using Microsoft software opening a Microsoft document under a Microsoft OS is slower than opening the same document with a Linux based software on macOS.
BTW, none of the reviews I have read have mentioned that if you right-click on the Windows Start Button, a whole host of goodies appear, including Task Manager, PowerShell and Computer-, Device- and Disk-Management.
The only thing good about Windows is that Chrome is optimized for it, so Chromium based browsers run smoother on it than any other platform. After trying to get hardware accelerated video on Chrome working on Linux for a long time, and giving up, I can appreciate Windows for this. Even on macOS, chrome uses too much CPU when playing 4K and 8K videos, compared to Windows. Other apps like OBS screen recording also use minimal CPU on Windows, while hogging all resources on other platforms.
None of that is worth the usability and UI consistency nightmare though. Just use a decent OS like macOS or Linux and buy a faster computer to compensate for the speed difference in these use cases.
None of that is worth the usability and UI consistency nightmare though. Just use a decent OS like macOS or Linux and buy a faster computer to compensate for the speed difference in these use cases.
Are you aware that businesses can buy extended support for Windows 7?
Very many companies do pay for Windows 7 security updates and support.
The problem is you're putting yourself at risk, given that there's no security updates. Given the increase tempo in cyber attacks and malware, its something I'd personally want to avoid. Many of the cyber attacks are leveraging out of date/non-patched systems.
Businesses still buy security updates from Microsoft for Windows 7.
"For users of Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Enterprise, you can purchase extended security updates through January 2023".
Microsoft is not Apple that drops the updates just like that. Windows 7 is still supported and even Windows 7 embedded is still supported.
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Yes, but that adds up rather quickly. Reportedly its 50 dollars per machine, this year, and 100 dollars next year. have a 100 computers, you're literally throwing away 5,000 dollars in 2021. That doubles to 10,000 next year. Let's say you have 1,000 computers, something that's probably more likely in medium/large enterprises that haven't moved off - we're talking 50,000 dollars that you're wasting
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