Windows XP The Countdown Begins - Page 4

Retlaw · 14-04-2013, 22:08

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Originally Posted by Restless

I admit to some copy and pasting

Lol would love to see it

Still got 3.1 on big floppies.

gpick24 · 14-04-2013, 22:11

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Originally Posted by Retlaw

Still got 3.1 on big floppies.

Perhaps that`s a thread for the 18+ section.

jaysay · 15-04-2013, 08:12

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Originally Posted by Neil

What about MS-DOS? - We still have 5 PC's at work running MS-DOS on production machines. They were only installed about 6 years ago

Windows 3.1 is still running a production machine where I used to work

95 was a big leap from 3.1 - it hid DOS better

95 was on my first computer, was it 1994 or 1995 Neil

jaysay · 15-04-2013, 08:15

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Originally Posted by Retlaw

Still got 3.1 on big floppies.

I got rid of dozens of floppies last year, no point in keeping um if there's nout to read um on

cashman · 15-04-2013, 09:05

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Originally Posted by jaysay

95 was on my first computer, was it 1994 or 1995 Neil

Seems funny to me if 95 was 94.?

Neil · 15-04-2013, 09:34

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Originally Posted by Retlaw

Still got 3.1 on big floppies.

No you haven't you have it on 5 1/4" floppy diska, they are small. 8" were the big floppy disks

There is still a box of new 8" floppy disks at my Dads. There might be a drive for them as well if you're in need of borrowing it

Neil · 15-04-2013, 09:35

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Originally Posted by jaysay

95 was on my first computer, was it 1994 or 1995 Neil

Wiki says August 24th 1995

jaysay · 15-04-2013, 10:00

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Originally Posted by Neil

Wiki says August 24th 1995

I can only remember Start me up by the Stones, was used in TV Ads

claytonx · 26-04-2013, 17:42

Windows Eight to introduce a start button, bottom left hand corner.

jaysay · 27-04-2013, 08:44

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Originally Posted by claytonx

Windows Eight to introduce a start button, bottom left hand corner.

I rang Dell about 8 some months ago and they inserted one for me, they just beat accyman to it as he was going to do it for me

, using the button helps you to bypass 8 and have had no problems since

Gordon Booth · 08-05-2013, 18:25

Good job I didn't buy a new PC with Windows 8, here comes Windows Blue.
How come a company as big as this can't get it right first time? Or even second time?
Vista, Windows 8, if Blue is a mess-once is an accident, twice a coincidence, three times is sabotage.

maxthecollie · 08-05-2013, 21:30

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Originally Posted by gordon booth

good job i didn't buy a new pc with windows 8, here comes windows blue.
How come a company as big as this can't get it right first time? Or even second time?
Vista, windows 8, if blue is a mess-once is an accident, twice a coincidence, three times is sabotage.

o.m.g.

entwisi · 08-05-2013, 21:31

Have you any idea how many lines of code it takes to write an operating system? it's billions so you try suddenly rewriting huge swathes of it and ensuring it all plus together. also its not that it's unstable, just that the company took a decision to try and shift as users were looking to move to touch based. Like coke they made a mistake and are changing back. much that people know I don't like Microsoft sometimes you have to admit you screwed up and I respect that they are doing. I'll respect them more If all existing win 8 users get an upgrade to blue for free...

accyman · 09-05-2013, 00:08

people should have got a free upgrade from vista to win 7

vista was almost as bad as ME

Gordon Booth · 09-05-2013, 14:48

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Originally Posted by entwisi

Have you any idea how many lines of code it takes to write an operating system? it's billions so you try suddenly rewriting huge swathes of it and ensuring it all plus together. also its not that it's unstable, just that the company took a decision to try and shift as users were looking to move to touch based. Like coke they made a mistake and are changing back. much that people know I don't like Microsoft sometimes you have to admit you screwed up and I respect that they are doing. I'll respect them more If all existing win 8 users get an upgrade to blue for free...

Having tried to write programmes on a Spectrum and never got one to work, I can't imagine how writing an OS or one of these modern games can be done.

That's not my point. No-one is saying it doesn't work, it's just that millions of users don't like it and find it hard work.
Don't they do any customer testing to get reactions?
Or is it 'Microsoft knows best. Learn to love it'?
Millions of us(most of us) don't have touch screens and probably don't want or need them. Were we all forgotten?
It's OK for you experts, some of us struggle to switch on.