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HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
11/21/09

In reply to Windows 7 Sales Are Great (Just Like Vista Sales in 2007)
It could also mean that Vista was such utter shit that even non-nerds are buying 7 to install on their current hardware just to get away from it. :)
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Poop Cooper
11/21/09

In reply to Windows 7 Sales Are Great (Just Like Vista Sales in 2007)
Coincidentally, Internet Explorer 6's user share took a dramatic hit since Windows 7's release, yet Internet Explorer 8 didn't see that huge an increase.

Instead, it looks like users were split between Firefox and Chrome for their new browser of choice.

Mazel tov, nerds: we're becoming the majority.
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Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach
11/21/09

In reply to Windows 7 Sales Are Great (Just Like Vista Sales in 2007)
Just installed Windows 7 over my existing Vista installation (just got my copy from Lenovo today). Went pretty smoothly, and I'm glad to be back to 7.
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SysRq
11/21/09

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I stopped reading at "Joe Sixpack".
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dagamer34
11/21/09

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It's not consumer products that really matter that much, but business adoption where Microsoft will see real gains. Too bad the old mantra of "wait for SP1" is still around.
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Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
11/20/09

In reply to Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
The Bing thing is kind of like shooting the messenger. If Microsoft wants a piece of China, it better do as it's told.
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bobofish
11/21/09

@Shamoononon: I shave my legs.:
I've always felt that was pretty weak tea.

If some nation engaged in rampant mandatory pedophilia, a company that decided it had to engage in pedophilia there to go along and get along wouldn't do that because it's a retarded analogy.

On the other hand, an information provider that relies on the fact that its home nation does not censor decides that to make more money by heading into a new market, it has to go along to get along by censoring the very info they're supposed to be providing cause by golly that's just how it's done there.

Not even to mention the whole respectability and authority of the names MS and Google. Wanna blow your nose or make a copy? Use a Kleenex or Xerox because those'll get'r'done. Wanna do a search of the information that is reliably presented to you because the provider is the world leader in search? Use Google, or Bing if MS managed to convince you to roll that way. Except if you actually want real unvarnished info on Tienanmen in Chinese that is.
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Charles Ip
11/21/09

@bobofish: Next thing you know, you're gonna get Obama to swear at Wen Jiabao because he has the great firewall of china up.
I'm sure that'll do awesome for America's trade deficit.
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Mikestan
11/20/09

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Will it be one more step closer to OS X?
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
11/20/09

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Oh, and I'm just letting you all know right now that Windows 8 wasn't my idea.
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KTK1990
11/20/09

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I bet they will still be priced pretty high, and have loads of different versions.

I do hope they will be more Apple like, and cut the price down, improve some programs, and have fewer choices with more programs built in. Maybe just 3 choices, Home for $100, Buisness for $100, Ultimate for $150.
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HelloYouAll
11/20/09

Apple likes to charge you 30 dollars for a service pack that is been called "Apple's Vista" I do agree on a lower price policy doh.
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Wilson
11/20/09

@HelloYouAll: If you're referring to 10.6, the addition of major under-the-hood elements like Grand Central and OpenCL make it substantially more than a service pack. While many apps were broken by 10.6, it was essentially by design unlike Vista. The path forward sometimes requires cutting ties to the distant past.
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HelloYouAll
11/20/09

@Wilson: " major under-the-hood elements like Grand Central and OpenCL" Whooo that sounds so awesome, bechmarks like geekbench show little to no relevant difference between lepard and snow leopard.

#tips
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
11/20/09

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Perfect. Just in time for the Apocalypse...
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James Lin
11/20/09

@Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Maybe it is the Apocalypse?!
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travisco_nabisco
11/20/09

@Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Maybe Windows 8 will cause the Apocalypse!!

Just putting it out there.
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Nathan Obbards
11/20/09

@travisco_nabisco: Because it will be so amazing that even Apple fanboys will have to admit how good it is, thus causing a disaster greater than dividing by zero?
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jddf
11/20/09

@Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: don't know windows is the apocalypse
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Bertone77
11/20/09

@Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Codename "Windows 8" real name "Master Control Program"
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
11/20/09

@jddf: Actually I was pretty sure Windows Me was the apocalypse but we managed to survive..
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travisco_nabisco
11/20/09

@Nathan Obbards: I don't pretend to know anything about how this disaster will happen, though something greater than a divide by zero is pretty serious.
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bagellord
11/20/09

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They're banning consoles, not live accounts. If you mod it be prepared to pay the consequences.
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logruszed
11/20/09

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Are thy going to show up and cal the judge a "fag" or a "nub" then teabag/corpse-rape the opposing counsel while screaming insults?
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logruszed
11/20/09

@logruszed: nm. I didn't notic this was hardware bans, not behavior TOS bans.
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madog
11/20/09

In reply to Banned Xbox Users Plan a Class-Action Lawsuit, Accuse Microsoft of a Vast Conspiracy
People can modify and customize anything they own, Microsoft isn't preventing that here. You can put rocket boosters and machine guns on your car if you really wanted to, but that doesn't mean the state will let you drive it on the road. Just as Microsoft doesn't have any obligation to let you on their Live service with your modded device.

You might get away with it at first, but that doesn't entitle you to use it forever. You might pay taxes for road work, or pay a monthly fee for XBL, but the use of those is a privilege, not a right.

Furthermore, the road to hell is paved with "good intentions". MS can't discern the pirate from the casual modder, and it would be pretty ridiculous to expect them to.
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fuchikoma
11/20/09

In reply to Microsoft Denies Programming NSA-Accessible Backdoors Into Windows 7
Anyone remember _NSAKEY and all the trouble it caused?
Actually, it didn't cause any trouble because it wasn't a backdoor - the NSA was just the technical authority to review Windows to ensure it met US export laws.
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Borateen
11/20/09

@fuchikoma: [www.heise.de]
[www.cnn.com]
[en.wikipedia.org]
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fuchikoma
11/20/09

@Borateen:
Thanks. That's the one - many people panicked, but even a decade after people figured out how to substitute their own keys for the built-in one, nothing has happened. There are far easier ways to snoop on and control a Windows PC; the NSA simply doesn't need to integrate such a device into the OS.

[www.schneier.com]
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
11/20/09

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Who is Microsoft think they're fooling? The NSA has tapped more backdoors than a male pornstar...
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