Activity for November 13

Review - Opera for Windows
9.61 Build 10463 Final (Oct 20, 2008)

As all precedent versions, simply the fastest and the best browser.
Thank you for allowing us doublebooters to use it both under XP and Windows 98 SE.
Review - Notepad++
5.1 RC (Oct 6, 2008)

Excellent, as all previous versions.
Working under Windows 98 SE (double boot) it does not print, maybe a bug.
Review - Avant Browser
11.7 Build 15 (Sep 28, 2008)

Very good. Not for all OS: on double boot doesn't work under 9x.
Review - Allway Sync
8.3.0 (Sep 8, 2008)

Excellent. BTW not valid for 9x.
Review - Opera for Windows
9.60 Build 10421 RC1 (Sep 6, 2008)

Excellent as always. Thank you for keeping it available for Windows 98 SE (double boot user).
Comment - Early sales figures for Windows 7 nicely high, but do we know why?
9.60 Build 10421 RC1 (Nov 13, 2009 - 2:14 AM)

Microsoft has always been the best, the first and the only real choice.
Most users don't have the slightest idea of computing and when they need a machine they buy whatever is offered at a good price. Sales chains and hardware providers sell them Windows XP, or Vista, or Windows 7, or Windows XXX..., or whatever they offer.
It is they and not people who make the choice for you and buy to Microsoft what pays the most, and also stop selling spare parts or drivers to force you to buy a new machine. And Microsoft needs them.
Don't ask about user's opinion: what really counts are the benefits of the hardware factories and the commercial chains. Microsoft doesn't need to convince users: their business is done with the hardware and driver providers.
This way current stats only reflect how good has been the Microsoft sales policy.
Comment - Should you trust Microsoft with your data?
9.60 Build 10421 RC1 (Oct 14, 2009 - 2:19 PM)

Even when I appreciate the help of cloud computing, I only rely on somewhat which is into my own control.
Comment - Microsoft, Mono developer form open source/commercial cooperative
9.60 Build 10421 RC1 (Sep 13, 2009 - 7:49 AM)

Today's Microsoft is not the one we had in the nineties. They thought first in the user's needs, and we all loved them.
Now they only mind their own business: complex solutions for simple problems.
Charity, but not towards their customers.
I don't imagine them providing any open source software, unless it means a path to big money.
Comment - Windows 7 is coming: Don't upgrade
9.60 Build 10421 RC1 (Aug 21, 2009 - 11:22 AM)

After evaluating advantages and disadvantages, in my case I don't find any valid reason for moving from Windows XP.

I find in the stats that we are a great majority all over the world who think this way.

Microsoft should respect the opinion of most Windows users in the world and not try to impose their doubtful new creations to anyone who buys a preinstalled new computer.

Moving from an OS to another means a lot of unneccesary problems for big and small enterprises. But Microsoft "life cycle" assures you that whatever of their OS you might have, one way or another you will be forced to upgrade in an increasingly shorter term.

First, they've got the control over your computer using RPC backdoors.

Second, the hardware providers receive their new products and preinstall them in every new computer, and stop providing drivers and spare parts to force the user to throw away whatever he might have, no matter if he needs anything new or not. This is the way used to kill Windows 98 SE: it is dead even when many people never needed any upgrade because they used the computer for routine task.

IMHO they should find new ways to improve their industrial profits, by listening the needs of computer users and giving them what they demand, offering complementary services, or searching new business paths.

Even when they are a great corporation, they are in the hands of their customers, and eventually it could happen to their every day more and more complex products the same that happened to the masterpiece Concorde airplane.
Comment - Windows XP forever? The OS that just won't die
9.60 Build 10421 RC1 (Aug 10, 2009 - 1:20 PM)

Nobody laughs twice the same joke. Microsoft should be more realistic and accept the truth: we are not in the nineties any more, and computing now is not what it was in its old golden years. In the old times computing was something new and most of us felt a real passion for it: we were literally expecting any new Microsoft product to buy it if we could, or to find a pirate copy of it when it was too expensive for our budgets.
Today passion is away and most of us don't feel any wish to pay attention to the OS. The computer became an essential part in our work and we'd rather dedicate our time to our daily work.
Their worst enemy is the excellency of their past products, and in special their best work, the worldwide master Windows XP. They should respect it, which means respect us, and find new ways to increase their profits instead of proposing doubtful alternatives.
No matter how great a corporation is, it should never forget that they are are in the hands of their customers, and not the opposite.