All this reminds me of those 'old wives tales' about the 1st keyboard being designed so that the women who worked with them could not type so fast that they would hurt themselves. Just looking out for the little ladies, they were.
Maybe M$ is afraid that we will be able to get so much work done with all that memory that it is their duty to drag the thing down with redundant software. They probably have a blind loop that does nothing for 1/2 second every time you touch the keyboard or some other great innovation. After all, what idiot would pay that much for a small fast, efficient operating system. Linux is the answer. People would not want to pay at all. What the hell could be going on in a 64 bit, 4gb memory machine to make it run that slowly? The truth is Vista is crap. They should name it Crapsta. Come and get your Crapsta. The future is here and the future is crap. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'ProFox Email List'" <profox@leafe.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:38 PM Subject: RE: Microsoft reveals features of Windows 7 It's called progress?<G> John Harvey -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of geoff Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:24 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: RE: Microsoft reveals features of Windows 7 Ive got 2G on each of my 2 Vista laptops. Fast they aint. Anyone remember windows 95 on 8Mb? why do we suddenly need 250times as much Ram to get a slower operating system? I just think an OS should get out of the way of applications. noone buys an OS for itself (I hop). They buy it for the applications that run on it. I cant find a single reason to upgrade from XP excepting the total lack of choice my laptops gave me. At 12:48 PM 30/10/2008, you wrote: >Yeah, I guess I could try "running" on 256m, or even using a 14.4 >modem...<G> I've got 2 gig of ram on my notebook, and it's pretty fast. I >think you might have a better experience if you ramped up on the ram. I hear >it's actually pretty cheap these days. > >John Harvey > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of geoff >Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:07 PM >To: ProFox Email List >Subject: RE: Microsoft reveals features of Windows 7 > >Its never crashed on me either. but nor does it ever connect to my >network easily. nor does it run fast. Try and 'run' it on 256Mb. Try >and run a foxpro app that might do some of the naughty things vista >no longer permits - like putting borders around forms! Nope. Vista is crap. > >At 12:16 PM 30/10/2008, you wrote: > >I've had no problems with Vista. I've never had a crash and my laptop is > >ALWAYS on. > > > >John Harvey > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > >Of geoff > >Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:34 PM > >To: ProFox Email List > >Subject: Re: Microsoft reveals features of Windows 7 > > > >The thing that shocked me about WInXp when i first loaded it way back > >when was that it ran faster and far more stable than win 98. it was a > >genuine step forward. Can you say the same about Vista? giant > >headache and a step backwards. Looks nice tho. (big deal) > > > >At 11:04 AM 30/10/2008, you wrote: > > >On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:46 PM, KAM.covad > > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > We just took delivery of 2 desktop 64bit Vista 4gb memory, > > > etc,etc. We had to get them because we have more clients getting them. > > > > > >Bummer. > > > > > > > The first thing we noticed is that there is no support for dos > > > programs. We still have more than 1000 licensed users with our FPD26 > > > > version. There are some 3rd party utilities available and one of > > > our support guys got one to work, but it is complex to set up and > > > > we don't know what it might do to a client's computer or other > > > installed programs. Anyone have any feedback on this? > > > > > >I would look at setting up a virtual machine and install something > > >like FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org/) into it, and see if I could get > > >FPD running in there. > > > > > >Of course, I'd rather try this under Ubuntu or CentOS or Fedora or... > > >well, anything else. You might want to consider getting your DOS > > >clients to either considering upgrading to a Windows version or > > >dedicating a machine to really run DOS. > > > > > > > The other thing we noticed was expected. It runs slower than a > > > Win2000 P3 computer with 256 mb memory > > > > > >Really? And this was a Vista-badged machine with appropriate specs? I > > >hear the GPU requirements are very high. > > > > > >-- > > >Ted Roche > > >Ted Roche & Associates, LLC > > >http://www.tedroche.com > > > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
