What OS & Version Are You Using?
- Windows 7 11.38% (519 votes)
- Vista 17.39% (793 votes)
- XP 29.74% (1356 votes)
- Pre-XP 1.18% (54 votes)
- OSX 29.66% (1352 votes)
- Pre-OSX 0.09% (4 votes)
- Linux 9.96% (454 votes)
- Other 0.57% (26 votes)
MySpace
Tagged
WordPress
Blogger
Friendster
LiveJournal
Hi5
Website
Link
Statistics
| Votes: | 4559 |
| Views: | 6112 |
Comments
I agree with Norman. I like what is familiar and has been functional and reliable for my purposes and don't appreciate having newer, more complicated, bloated products rammed down my throat when they don't provide any benefit to me for what I use the product for. Micro$oft need to offer a range of products including for people who prefer simple, and have no interest in using the largest and most complicated products available, i.e. I have no need of a motorhome to drive a few blocks to work each day. A small car will do, or perhaps even a bicycle.
Well I run windows 7 for work & whatnot, but I do run 4.3 BSD from Wisconsin under SIMH's VAX 11/780 emulator...... Ok so it's from 1986, but lynx works! And IRC, which is basically all you need right? Oh and rogue/nethack.
Was the version of the OS that the polltakers were running logged? My guess is you have a LOT of anti-Microsoft people saying they run something else but still in fact run Windows. Sad when people lie to be popular.
Was the version of the OS that the polltakers were running logged? My guess is you have a LOT of anti-Microsoft people saying they run something else but still in fact run Windows. Sad when people lie to be popular.
Running Linux (Ubuntu) here. Linux is now mature enough for the desktop. Goodbye. Anonymous from Brazil.
I'm running xp pro 64 version 2003 on one machine and xp pro 32 on another to take advantage of some hardware that doesn't have drivers for either vista or a 64 bit OS. I do love xp pro 64 bit; very stable and extremely fast with 8 gigs of memory. It's a serious no nonsense OS unlike Vista.
My current PC (a laptop) runs Vista. Its interface is more complex than Win XP, but it never crashes (Blue screen), unlike my previous Windows XP computer.
I am using XP on my computer. I dual boot XP and Ubuntu on the netbook.
Every 'new' operating system (and they are NOT 'systems' anyway) is ALWAYS more complicated than the last one. The world is not made up only of 'techies' nor of people who delight in looking in a totally different place for what was familiar. Also. Just how many people (users) think that it is OK to provide manufacturers with information on shortcomings in their products - for free - whilst that product provides nothing but an incomprehensible long number for every problem causing fault when, as most of us know, computers are equally as capable of telling us EXACTLY what the fault was caused by in English - or - in any other language. The reluctance to 'upgrade' to change to the 'latest' usually at great expense is caused by this ignoring of the blaringly obvious. What we have works (after a fashion), and any change is to invite risks of problems. Microsoft and others, will continue to ignore the obvious, and will go the way of General Motors. Just remember. Once the slippery slope is entered, there is no way back Mr. Microsoft.
I think this OS is familiar with most of us here as teachers, because we don't know the other OS coming to our office here. Certainly thanks for the service your agency has given to us with those news and information that sometimes useful in our teaching in classes. John Dvorak and co, I would like to express my deepest gratitude for those all. If you don't mind, some of what I downloaded from www.dvorak.com at times I treated in our powerpoint presentation. Thanks. Rochadi, Surabaya, Indonesia.