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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Shuffler on September 04, 2012, 10:44:39 AM
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(Mashable) -- Windows 7 is now the world's most popular desktop operating system, according to the August report from Net Applications.
In August, Windows 7 had a 42.76% market share, a fraction of a point more than Windows XP's 42.52%. Windows XP was released in 2001.
The much-maligned Windows Vista sits at third place with a 6.15% market share, followed by Mac OS X 10.7 and Mac OS X 10.6 with 2.45% and 2.38%, respectively.
All in all, older versions included, Microsoft controls some 92% of the market.
It took three years for Windows 7 to become the world's most popular OS. Microsoft's desktop operating system, which was launched in October 2009.
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I have Windows 7 at work and at home. I really enjoy it. I also didn't mind Vista - but hated XP.
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Vista was terrible. I used Xp for a long time.
Now all my machines run Windows 7 Pro. I am a fan of 7.
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I'm still using XP. :lol
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I still use xp, I hate vista. Cant be doing with the way it keeps trying to anticipate what you want :bhead
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So If I'm viewing this on a Mac running VMware Fusion running Windows 7, what does that count as? :D
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I still run XP media center edition on one PC and Win98SE on another.
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They should give every poor soul that had to get Vista a Win 7 CD. No satisfaction guaranteed Microsoft! :furious
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So If I'm viewing this on a Mac running VMware Fusion running Windows 7, what does that count as? :D
Means you bought the wrong computer. :D
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still on XP Pro at home, because even the OEM version of Win7 Pro costs £110 (the legal version costs £190) :rolleyes:
the latest full version of OSX costs ... £14 :lol
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Ubuntu is still free.
Upgrades are free.
Runs faster than any Windows OS.
Does not have the virus concerns Windows has.
Can run most Windows business software (via WINE or Windows VM).
I only use a Windows system to play AH. :lol
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Only reason its popular is because it is force fed to individuals that purchase computers
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Only reason its popular is because it is force fed to individuals that purchase computers
They choose PCs yes..... they choose Mac.... no.
Apple donated many machines to schools in hopes that the kids would like them and buy one when out of school. They just did not like them.
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Only reason its popular is because it is force fed to individuals that purchase computers
This. Don't get me wrong...a great OS...but this.
Macs are great, we have them at our school...just too pricey for me. The cheapest new mac you can get is what...700 or 800 dollars for one of the 13" ones? You can get a netbook (10") or possibly a small laptop for anywhere from 250-500. But then again, I did buy an iPad for college.
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I find XP far more friendly when making music.
Win 7 hates dedicated sound cards.
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if nobody bought macs, the guys in redmond would have nothing to copy would they? :D
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if nobody bought macs, the guys in redmond would have nothing to copy would they? :D
Hate to burst your bubble but Apple/Mac has copied many others.
Apploe IOS even copied... of all things, some features on the windows phone. :ahand
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XP here .. prolly have to up to 7 next year when I upgrade the boxes.
Cant wait to say goodbye to electric motor driven hard drives.
Also can't wait till they figure a way to really take advantage of the 3-axis memory txfer capability a Solid State drive has.
Imagine bus speeds orders of magnitude faster :O
Then ..of course .. I want my Holodeck.
-Frank aka GE
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apple haters are THE easiest to troll :lol
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apple haters are THE easiest to troll :lol
Most I think are not haters. They just see no reason for the apple fanbois. lol
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I have Windows 7 at work and at home. I really enjoy it. I also didn't mind Vista - but hated XP.
Same here. Loved xp, skipped vista and w7 is just as good as xp.
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I find XP far more friendly when making music.
Win 7 hates dedicated sound cards.
I don't know about the music, but I notice Win 7 does not always connect a hard drive when hot plugged.I have had to go to drive manager and change the drive letter and path.
Over all I like 7.
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They choose PCs yes..... they choose Mac.... no.
Apple donated many machines to schools in hopes that the kids would like them and buy one when out of school. They just did not like them.
Their fundamental problem is that they don't understand software. If they had back in the late 80's early 90's we would be talking about how Apple holds 90+% of the OS market, and how Microsoft was nothing more than a small footnote in OS history that turned out to be a bad idea.
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Most I think are not haters. They just see no reason for the apple fanbois. lol
(http://img9.joyreactor.com/pics/post/comics-apple-microsoft-table-pc-214699.jpeg)
Apple already sued Samsung for making an Ipad killer, clearly they made the first tablet.
Ironically I had an Apple IPad year ago, threw it on craigslist and sold to some Fanboi who thought $400 was a steal, ended up buying a samsung 10.1 with all the trimmings for $450.
Never was impressed with Ipad, to many of the good apps have big price tags, Samsung using Android everything is practically free.
Edit:
I have 32GB storage, all my work, music, videos, kid photos, family photos are on it - I simply love it. I use to lug around my laptop which barely did anything more then it. Few games? I can live without, I can work with excell and word which is all I need, watch netflick etc.
I was lucky to buy one up before ya know - apple made samsung make all the 10.1's disappear... :)
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Ipad !
Bought one for my wife. She wanted one. Now it sits in a drawer.
Can't find a use for it.
None of my family are into Facebook or Jeremy Kyle re-runs on Youtube.
I see people on the train to work reading ebooks on them.
To get your music collection on it you have to d'load itunes onto your PC.
How crap is that!
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I like my comp to do what i want, how i want. Not how it thinks it should be done, in the only way it can. But hey its 'cool' and looks 'good' right?
Macs suck, selling my POS Iphone 4S as soon as possible too.
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I have a true tablet here in the closet. Has a 1GB processor, RAM might be 256MB. Runs very slow though, I suppose a normal copy of XP wont run on it properly. Is there a tablet only copy of XP or will the original work
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Ipad !
Bought one for my wife. She wanted one. Now it sits in a drawer.
Can't find a use for it.
None of my family are into Facebook or Jeremy Kyle re-runs on Youtube.
I see people on the train to work reading ebooks on them.
To get your music collection on it you have to d'load itunes onto your PC.
How crap is that!
How crap is to have a PC and not a mac? :D
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I like my comp to do what i want, how i want. Not how it thinks it should be done, in the only way it can.
explain? :headscratch:
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I have owned and used most everything. For the most part everything good at something
Windows 7 is a great operating system. Vista was not bad after a couple of years, the problem was it was very different from XP, applications, drivers, and most everything else had to be rewritten to use it, When vista came out none of that really happened. You had all this 3rd party software that didn’t work right and made the system look worse than it was.
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I like my comp to do what i want, how i want. Not how it thinks it should be done, in the only way it can. But hey its 'cool' and looks 'good' right?
Macs suck, selling my POS Iphone 4S as soon as possible too.
Then your only possible operating system is linux.
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Ipad !
Bought one for my wife. She wanted one. Now it sits in a drawer.
Can't find a use for it.
None of my family are into Facebook or Jeremy Kyle re-runs on Youtube.
I see people on the train to work reading ebooks on them.
To get your music collection on it you have to d'load itunes onto your PC.
How crap is that!
I couldn't agree with you more. Want another?
Fanbois are always saying how intuitive apple products are.
What's intuitive about installing a product called iTunes to manage a mobile phone?
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If you are one to use lots of specialized hardware, you will have big trouble finding a driver outside of the windows realm.
For the people who simply use the computer for computing and browsing, the other operating systems are sufficient.
I have two sound cards and a predecessor of the "all-in-wonder" series cards that allows me to input and output any format video or audio signal except for firewire on a pentium 200 box I built in 1995. It also has Ultra fast and wide scsi and a raid controller. (not to be confused with the weaker ultra scsi).
I had very few issues getting the drivers to work in windows 95 and I still use that box now because one of the soundcards has a hardware sampler with 28 megs of sample ram that will play notes from a midi controller with ZERO LATENCY........because it is hardware. It also has spdif digital out which I record with the other sound card.
My slightly newer box runs win98SE and has 3x soundcards allowing 16 channels of hardware ADAT input and output going through a digital mixer as well as having the same hardware synth as the win95 box with zero latency.......because the KT7A raid still had a 16 bit ISA slot.
It can also input and output any type of audio or video signal through the all-in-wonder 8500dv card including firewire and I had zero issues finding drivers to work with it.
I was able to get this functionality in 1995 for the older box and 2000 for the newer one and it would not have been possible to do that with any operating system other than windows.
My older boxes work so well, that my "new box" is used only for browsing and gaming.
Even today, there are issues trying to get even a single expansion card working in operating systems other than windows while I can still pack a ton of cards into a windows based system.
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If you are one to use lots of specialized hardware, you will have big trouble finding a driver outside of the windows realm.
For the people who simply use the computer for computing and browsing, the other operating systems are sufficient.
I have two sound cards and a predecessor of the "all-in-wonder" series cards that allows me to input and output any format video or audio signal except for firewire on a pentium 200 box I built in 1995. It also has Ultra fast and wide scsi and a raid controller. (not to be confused with the weaker ultra scsi).
I had very few issues getting the drivers to work in windows 95 and I still use that box now because one of the soundcards has a hardware sampler with 28 megs of sample ram that will play notes from a midi controller with ZERO LATENCY........because it is hardware. It also has spdif digital out which I record with the other sound card.
My slightly newer box runs win98SE and has 3x soundcards allowing 16 channels of hardware ADAT input and output going through a digital mixer as well as having the same hardware synth as the win95 box with zero latency.......because the KT7A raid still had a 16 bit ISA slot.
It can also input and output any type of audio or video signal through the all-in-wonder 8500dv card including firewire and I had zero issues finding drivers to work with it.
I was able to get this functionality in 1995 for the older box and 2000 for the newer one and it would not have been possible to do that with any operating system other than windows.
My older boxes work so well, that my "new box" is used only for browsing and gaming.
Even today, there are issues trying to get even a single expansion card working in operating systems other than windows while I can still pack a ton of cards into a windows based system.
Actually linux has an excellent driver support especially for older hardware. The devices may need to be configured by hand a little though - not everything works plug&play.
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I had already tried linux and every flavor of it and I wasn't interested in writing a driver myself or waiting until my hardware was already collecting social security.
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Ipad !
Bought one for my wife. She wanted one. Now it sits in a drawer.
Can't find a use for it.
It can be used in AH to show clipboard maps. Just download the PDF version of Pand's Strat Maps (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,335423.0.html) on the iPad, open the file and sweep them back and forth. Highly useful for all bombers, attackers and GV drivers! :bolt:
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I've been using Linux for 12 years now as my primary OS. Since the last 4-5 years I've been using Ubuntu and never had any driver issues, except for 3D graphics performance for games. Ubuntu really made Linux an OS for dummies. I am a dummy. I now have a dual boot where Win7 has only games installed on it.