Since when? Software update always pops up for me when there are updates.

As far as Safari and iTunes, does it really bother you that much? Sure its crappy how they try to push it on everyone's machine, but at least its not malicious.

Yeah. Damn those commercial software developers! They should all rot in hell for the damage they have caused. It should be illegal to even buy software at all.

They always notify me. The Software Updater appears, which is my first clue...

It's not just the fact that they push it onto computers it's that since I'm responsible for maintaining a lot of these computers I get a lot of shit when it re-appears mysteriously when it is not supposed to be there...

I also get more complaints from Mac users about Windows computers they never use then from the people actually using the Windows computers... But I also don't get complaints about Macs unless there is a file format that they can't figure out...

That's what they want you to know about

You never really hear about those really serious bug fixes unless it becomes common. It's not like the huge bug that crashes your hard drive when you select View Desktop as List bug they had on the original colorful iMac. All you had to do to crash the drive was close all windows in finder and select the proper menu item to view the desktop as list or details or something and it locked up and could not boot up again... I see nothing about it now on the internet anywhere but I remember after discovering that little bug on the iMac computers at my school the computers were devastated and many of them were shipped back when they couldn't figure out what was wrong. If I had kept my mouth shut around the other kids it probably would not have been so bad. But even though I made it clear what was happening no one ever actually fixed the real problem. They just blamed it on the kids "doing something wrong" or "malicious" and the problem was never fixed. The computers just had the OS re-installed every time it happened which became less often as time went on and the kids got bored with it... The whole thing kind of pissed me off because everybody I warned about the problem kind of had the impression that the computers were not flawed and instead blamed the kids (including Apple). All of that was a long time ago though...

The whole Apple sucks thing just became that rant that I carried with me everywhere after that just because no one could admit a serious flaw...

But yeah Windows 7 \o/ Woo. New OS means new bugs... and some old ones

Why?

Microsoft needs to make money with this OS, just like they do with their other products (yes, IE too, although there is no direct revenue).

The fact that Linux exists doesn't automatically mean all other OSes are morally or legally obliged to be like it.

My understanding is that they've still yet to make a profit on the XBoxes. At a guess, the plan was to push the first out to establish their credentials, then transition very quickly to the second and wrongfoot Sony, winning the entire market. I guess Nintendo and the numerous faulty iterations of XBox have made that more difficult than expected. They also seem to keep pushing out Zunes, though the rumourmill has it that the iPod Touch clone Zune that's due this year is a last-ditch attempt at a standalone player, all the Zune staff having already been moved to other departments.

Most of the things they've cancelled since the recession hit (at least Money, Flight Simulator, Encarta, OneCare and Equipt) haven't been particularly profitable, but they keep pouring money into their internet sinkhole projects, so positioning must count for something...

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Work for Apple? Doesn't sound like fun to me. I've had nothing but highly positive interactions with Apple since becoming an iPhone person, but I tend to show at least a little humility during job interviews, so I'd be straight out the door. Though I guess maybe I could just set up a projector and incorporate a 30 minute bit on how I once implemented copy and paste, and here's a lengthy demonstration of how copy and paste works in case anybody in the room hasn't used a computer since 1980.

Yes... It was just so they could watch certain videos that Media player didn't support... I'm not sure if it supports them now, but I think was necessary for some .mov or .mp4 video file or some kind of streaming video service they were signed up for...

Didn't bother to read all the posts as the thread has probably derailed a couple of times by now.

My question is, is there anything that actually is better than in Vista (besides speed on lower end computers) ?

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Could be faster on my somewhat high end PC, but I really can't justify an upgrade just because of that since I think Vista runs smoothly as it is.

Per Wikipedia:

And further goes on to explain that beyond the performance fixes you mention, the most obvious difference is the new taskbar and a bunch of other less-obvious additions include improvements to or implementations of multitouch gesture support, handwriting and speech recognition, 'libraries' as a new file organisation tool (a bit like search folders, but with smarter backing store so that you can also save to them), a redesigned notification area and a bunch of minor window navigation improvements.

From my point of view, as a Mac user whose most recent version of Windows is Windows 2000, the relatively minor update to 7, the inclusion of XP compatibility mode (a copy of XP that runs in virtualisation and pipes window contents via RDC so that htey are composited normally in the native display), the cut-price sale and the self-imposed idea of the 'E' edition meaning that I don't even need a qualifying older version make it a smart time to update. Plus, I would like to try .NET, at least for the purposes of Silverlight 3 — those apps being deployable on Windows and Mac but developable in Windows only.

Sounds like it might be a misfeature of the E version, based on this PC Pro blog. Since the ever-poorly informed BBC have decided to go with:

I suspect it's yet more Microsoft gurning.

Ubuntu is pretty easy. When I tried it out, everything worked straight out of the box with my hardware setup.

I imagine it's not so easy to get help when things go wrong however, at least for casual computer users. There's far less support sites for it, and those that are assume a far higher level of expertise than most Windows support sites.

EDIT: One thing I hope they definitely fix for Windows 7 is file sharing. I don't know what they did to it in Vista, but it sucks. I've been trying to set up a shared folder for the last 10 minutes, and it's just saying "This may take a few minutes." Setting up a similar folder on the XP machine takes less than a minute.

You didn't have to rise to it.

Let me guess, you're now using a terabyte drive, right? Vista chokes on my I: & J: drives when trying to display the contents of a folder (1TB drive vs. the 320GB drive C: is on)