tell me one thing that Windows can't do AND everybody envies mac and linux users. hahaha kiss my ass fanboys
Windows can't put out secure products. Linux, Mac and *nix OS are more stable, secure and flexible. Drink some more Kool Aid: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1956072,00.asp As far as browsers on linux, there are many choices: Firefox, Opera, Konqueror, Galeon, Dillo, Lynx, etc.. Hell you can even run Internet Exploder via wine, but why would anybody want to?
You sir are an idiot... Mac users can choose from Safari, Firefox, Camino, Shiira, Mozilla, Sunrise, Flock, KidsBrowser (made for kids), OmiWeb, Webstractor, iCab, iSurf, Opera or even that piece of crap known as IE (WORST browser for a mac). Lets not forget all the programs that have their own browser built in, like NetNewsWire etc. You can see a good list of the different browsers for Macs here.
AOL even has their own crappy version of IE. (At one time, BS recommended that AOL users download a browser to use instead of AOL's, but that's another story.) IE WAS made for macs at one point, but development stopped. INTERNET EXPLORER FOR MAC NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD ... Accordingly, as of January 31st, 2006, Internet Explorer for the Mac is no longer available for download from Microsoft. It is recommended that Macintosh users migrate to more recent web browsing technologies such as Apple's Safari. http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/internetexplorer/internetexplorer.aspx?pid=internetexplorer "more recent web browsing technologies" Microsoft admits that their browser is outdated?? And I can't wait for the disaster known as Vista to be released. Broken promises, features cut out, features scaled back on, etc. IE7 already has a horrible GUI. They could have used Firefox's abilities to rearrange tabs or completely get rid of the tab bar (whatever it's really called...) but for some reason decided not to.
It looks like you'll have to wait a little longer. A lot of rumors going around that it'll be pushed back to March 2007 at the earliest.
I knew 2007 for sure. Of course, if Microsoft was smart, they could use that additional time to make it more secure, less vunerable, etc. but they probably won't. It'll probably end up backfiring. Code gets leaked, the wrong people get their hands on it and more viruses might be created. (Did I hear something about when XP was released, there were already several XP-specific viruses waiting for it or was that another OS?)
If they are delaying it, it means they need more time for the base features. There's no time to add new stuff. No one needs to leak anything. Right now there are tens of thousands of developers with Vista beta, all legit (although what they do with it might not be). Heck, as a student in community college taking a computer related course, I can get a legal beta copy of Vista right now for $10.
The latest & greatest windows security and malware news: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1959084,00.asp http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1958355,00.asp http://security.itworld.com/4352/060509vistasecurity/page_1.html
Plenty of people use personal computers. They just have to learn to start running a real OS like linux instead of that pile of goo from Redmond.
I remember when my wife first installed Linux on our old computer like 5 years ago. I had no idea what to do. I was asking her "how do you get on the internet" and it was like click a foot or something and she said it like it was actually an intuitive thing... like everybody would know to click a foot to go on the internet. Thank God for Macintosh though.
What "click a foot" thing? Perhaps she was running Gnome, and the foot icon on her desktop represented either the Galeon or Ephiphany browser. Gee, clicking on an icon is soooooooooo hard. Better stick with your mac! ;-)
My next computer purchase will definitely involve setting up a Linux system. Till then I'll survice on my ThinkPad.
From the second article: Another issue with the User Account Control is that it is incompatible with popularly used anti-virus applications from companies such as Symantec and McAfee, forcing customers to wait until those firms have rewritten their products to mesh properly with Vista. Of course, M$ would LOVE it if you would buy their bloated stuff, but isn't 3rd party sometimes better? (or in the case of Firefox, actually recommended by the US government?) From the security article: "Vista's new security features will make for such a disruptive user experience" Due to security concerns, your computer will not turn on.
you want to install a full set of virus all over your brand new harddrive!?!?!? no!!! stop it before it's too late. don't infect your brand new system with linus torvalds's offsprings. just split a partition on your old thinkpad and dual boot the garbage with Windows in case (and you will)you regret and have to go back to Windows again.
hahaha just because your favorite os still doesn't get much attention after 15+ years of its pathetic efforts, you can't force us Windows users who have much better and confortable life and computing experience to switch to some garbage that, without doubt, will put all of us into misery.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2006-05-12-microsoft-justice-oversight_x.htm M$ continues to break the law. btw ilove the new apple commercials. so true.
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3514_7-6512217-1.html?tag=fea_txt Check out the latest browser beta's and reviews, IE 7 lagging far far behind.