Users still prefer XP
September 25th, 2007 12:38 pm | Tech trek trek | benjamin | 246 views|
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It took took five years and $6bn (£3bn) to develop, but Microsoft’s Vista operating system, which was launched early this year, has been shunned by consumers – with computer manufacturers taking the bizarre step of offering downgrades to the old XP version of Windows.
Dell went back offering XP in April. All new laptops (home consumer models ) from HP comes with Vista. HP should do what Dell did - offer XP as an option.
May be related
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- Vista on Cnet’s top 10 terrible tech products
- Save Windows XP!
Ka rilru a lo...
September 25th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Vista rocks….but still prefer XP..
September 25th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
For me its XP XP XP XP..Since I run 2 or 3 big programs at once I need all the memory I can spare. Vista takes up so long to load everything, drive etc etc and some of my programs hates it and I need plugins to run them..My buddy just msged me tonight and him being a computer engineer found a way to dial down XP memory usage from 500mb to 100mb so yeah love XP hihihi
ps - Vista is just another way of microsoft leaching on the consumer money… fancy but quiet useless..
September 25th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
XP memory foot print is not 500 MB. It’s the services and other apps running in the back ground that will eat up memory.
Even many stuffs on the desktop can eat up memory.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
me no good with computer, whatever he types i quote hahaha but yeah the applications it brings along I think he means the default setup takes around 500mb( or atleast somewhere close to it ) perhaps?
September 25th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Default setup nope. If you take XP CD and install it yourself, it will not. But if you buy branded PC or laptop, the OS is preinstalled by the vendor. Usually vendors install lots of apps and utilities.
On my work laptop, I remove everything every I can. But at anything memory usage is always > 400 MB because there are many things that I have run besides mandatory background services
I have 1 Gig memory.
XP (without add on apps) can run on 64 MB of RAM (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457057.aspx) which means memory footprint(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_footprint) of the OS (XP) is not more than 64 MB
September 25th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
XP ka duh zawk avangin Vista tun thleng kala hmang lo….midang tamtak ang thovin:D
September 25th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Vista hian Apple an copy ka ti e : P
September 25th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Apple i va tran ve a!! kei chu vista hi hman nuam ka ti lutuk, a mawi bawk si. Oh, i think i know why you are fond of the imac people…..heeeheee
Press release of Apple Inc. this morning:
“Apple Computer announced today that it has developed a computer chip
that can store and play music in women’s breast implants.
The iTit will cost $499 or $599 depending on size.
This is considered to be a major breakthrough because women are always
complaining about men staring at their breasts and not listening to
them.”
September 25th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
@ blackmagicwoman -
September 25th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Vista - Nula Hmeltha puak with excessive makeup kal tuah tuah
Xp - Nula , lean , fast and smart
September 25th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Linux - Nula kherkhiap deuh, free deuh…
September 25th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Linux - te chu nula a ni hlei nem. It made by men for men as a replacement for nula.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
“”Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?”"
- Linux Torvalds (1991)
https://kerneltrap.org/node/14037
September 25th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
chuti chu brokeback.. :))) akekeke
September 25th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
A hrim hrim ah XP te chu Xperience tawh alom
September 26th, 2007 at 1:01 am
am using Vista in my laptop….i’m Ok with it….but requirement chu sang deuh….
September 26th, 2007 at 8:22 am
Kei pawh Vista ka hmang ve tawh e. A tha khawp mai security lamah. Configuration pawh a mamawh sang em em lo. Atirah chuan a driver mumal loh avangin ka system in a zo lo emaw ka ti hman a, mahse, ka drivers updates ka download (for vista) a, a tha ta khawp mai.
September 26th, 2007 at 9:28 am
“Configuration pawh a mamawh sang em em lo” ?
Windows Vista recommended system requirements
https://www.microsoft.com/windo.....ments.mspx
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Home Basic Home Premium / Business / Ultimate
* 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
* 512 MB of system memory
* 20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
* Support for DirectX 9 graphics and 32 MB of graphics memory
* DVD-ROM drive
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Home Premium / Business / Ultimate:
* 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
* 1 GB of system memory
* 40 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
* Support for DirectX 9 graphics with:
o WDDM Driver
o 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum)
o Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware
o 32 bits per pixel
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“A tha khawp mai security lamah”
- Eng tin nge i test?
September 26th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Tah sawi teuh tawh.
https://misual.life/2007/03/02/windows-vista-review/
“Secure” a rawn tia. Tih na chhan sawi chiang tur a hre - hmun danga “secure” tih an sawi bak chu.
Annoying thing with Vista it it keeps telling me too many warnings before doing some task. Also it has come up with “User Account Control (UAC)”: “User Account Control (UAC) is a new security feature of Microsoft Windows Vista that enables users to perform common tasks as non-Administrators.” so you can avoid using admin account.
This has been available long ago in the *nix in he form of sudo and su. A similar task was also possible in XP in the form of “Run As” - If I login as user B, I could start application using user C’s previleges. I am not sure what’s new with UAC.
Also real securty is with the user:
1) Do don’t run/install what you dont know and don’t know
2) Do open what you don’t know and don’t need.
Another good approach which no other OS, including Linux distros dont do is what OpenBSD does - turn off all services on installation. If the admin needs it, he will turn it on. Microsoft started turning some services off on installation only from Win2003 (IIRC) onwards. Most Linux distros give you an option (which one to turn on/off ) during install.
The impact of this is - If service A has bug which can be exploited and is turned on on install by default, the machine is vulnerable to attack from the it’s 1st boot.
September 26th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
win 95 ka duh ber
September 26th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
I love user friendly, my friend love it so much that he bought a new scooty, a user friendly one with no clutch, no gear
Vista chu office laptop-ah hian ka hmang a, ka hman hunah ka paih ang, Ngatan mah ka ti lo tunah hrih chuan.
A topic khi ka thlawp a, ka thlawp dan erawh a dang deuh. XP hi ‘Ripped Bone Editon’ a nih loh pawn ‘Tiny XP’ ka hmang. In lamah erawh Media Center ka hmang.
Config mamawh sang lo tih hi chu ka pawm lo. kei chu ‘resource hungry OS’ ka ti. tuna ka khawl hian a zo tha dawn lo ltk a hman tumna pawh ka nei lo, pawisa ka neih hunah computer thar te ka nei ve thei a nih chuan ka la in ngaihtuah ang. Ben, Linux distro thar ho pawh hian config a mamawh sang ltk.
Kei leh ka chhungte erawh hi zawngin XP kan la hmang hrih dawn.
September 26th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
“Ben, Linux distro thar ho pawh hian config a mamawh sang ltk” - that’s Linux Distro not Linux.
Choice a tam alom. Depending on your hardware.
For example - antix
“antiX is a fast, lightweight and easy to install linux live CD distribution based on MEPIS for Intel-AMD x86 compatible systems. antiX offers users the “Magic of Mepis” in an environment suitable for old computers.”
https://antix.mepis.org/index.p.....bout_antiX
September 26th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
“chuti chu brokeback.. :))) akekeke”
Women and Linux can co-exist together in the company of men
September 26th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
It seems like Microsoft intended Vista to include all the best features of each OSes but managed to create an OS that is not quite there. Kei chu ka PC in a zo chiangkuang don chuang lova ka la install chhin vel peih lo. Mahse thiante zingah preinstalled Vista PC leh laptop lei an awm nual a, thla 1 a ral hma in XP ah an downgrade fai vek dan atang hian a tha vak lo ni turah ka ngai ringawt. From the little experience i’ve had with the OS, i feel it is more of an evolutionary OS than a revolutionary one - and not a very good one at that…
September 29th, 2007 at 3:08 am
Microsoft Extends XP’s Life By 6 Months
“”Despite Microsoft releasing Windows Vista more than nine months ago the adoption rate has not been as Microsoft hoped. Bowing further to pressure from OEMs and consumers, Microsoft has extended the life of Windows XP, which was due to end sale by OEMs on January 1 next year, to a new date of June 30.”
https://slashdot.org/articles/0.....2223.shtml
Slashdotters are funny. The ask if the extension period is really 6 months?
Comments:
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Jan 1 -> June 30? Isn’t that 6 months?
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Jan 1 -> June 30? Isn’t that 6 months?
Jan 1 -> July 1 is 6 months.
Jan 1 -> June 30 is, truncated to an integer number of months, 5 months.
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Nope - count it out… January, February, March, April, May, June. That’s 5.
* I used Excel to do this math, and checked it with a virtual slide rule.
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September 29th, 2007 at 3:12 am
More Funny Comments:
“What happens to the activation servers long after the products (ie 2000 and XP) are out of extended support?”
- Well, extended support for XP ends in 2014. Considering all of 2008,2009,2010,2011,2012 and 2013 will be the year of the Linux desktop, I highly doubt anyone will still be using XP by then.
- Microsoft is apparently counting on the fact that nobody will even be here after 2012 [wikipedia.org],.
“XP sucks. It simply sucks less than Vista.”
October 14th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Consumer Group Demands XP for Vista Victims
https://it.slashdot.org/it/07/10/13/1110258.shtml