Dang I am peeved at Microsoft and the end of XP (RANT)! Anyone else? My XP system barely opens
a webpage any more. Guess it is time to puke money for a new system. Or battle the brain cells
to digest a new O.S…
And dang my ole intestinal tract has staged a coup and a full fleged revolution. I am not
sure how this is going to combine with my beer brewing. Not being able to consume my beer SUX.
(RANT)
Miss y’all and I will try to touch back to update if my system can keep me active on the www. ???
If I were in the business of selling operating systems and buying NASDAC stocks
from the perpetuation of my business, I would end the life cycle and make everyone
buy new stuff as often as I could! It’s just good biness
I for one am happy the end of XP from an IT support role. For years I’ve been trying to get my bosses to accept a hardware refresh schedule and have always met with resistance. We work with some pretty intensive CAD programs and all I hear is complaining about how slow things are.
Now with the retirement on XP, and the need to upgrade our Office installation to 2013 (which does not run on XP), I have in the past 6 months, purchased replacements for nearly 75% of my company’s systems (about 75 systems).
The SO and kids got a new Windows 8 computer X-mas 2012. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve used thing. Why would they make such a non-intuitive shift in GUI. I can usually figure it out but it takes so long I’m always ticked off by the time I finish anything. >:(
I went from Vista to 8 and actually really like 8. Once you get into the desktop it’s all the same on a laptop. Instead of having to fish around in the list that popped up from the start button I can hit the windows button, see icons for the software I use the most or if I need something else I can just type in the name and windows will search it for me. It took some time to get used to the change but after a couple weeks I really learned to love that part of the GUI. There are a few things I don’t like but I’d rather deal with the odd problem than go back to Vista with its instability and constant asking fifty times if I’m sure I want to open a program.
Glad to see you back. It’s been a while. Hope you feel better. I’ve never used WIN 8 and after reading all of the negative reviews, I don’t ever plan to go that route. I think my next move will be a Mac. I love my iPod and iPhone. My laptop is a Dell Latitude and does well with Windows 7 , but it took a while getting acclimated to it. I see a Mac laptop in my not so distant future.
Dang, I was hoping for one of your trip reports when I saw that thread title.
Although I did think it was little early to have been out treasure hunting in Whyomin.
