...A pc build that costs half what a Mac Pro costs works great for me.
Glad that works for you as I am sure it does for quite a few people.
Now...can we keep the conversation back on topic?
Are Microsoft Tight with their OS's?
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Glad that works for you as I am sure it does for quite a few people.
Now...can we keep the conversation back on topic?
agreed, there should be two versions of each windows OS: home, and professional.
Bodaggit23
Active Member
Quite a few meaning "most". I still think you've got more money than brains
if you buy a Mac and put Windows on it.
Now...can we keep the conversation back on topic?
Anyway,
I think Microsoft offers plenty with their OS's. I'd like them to offer more
bundled software, like the OP is suggesting, but I don't think that's going
to happen very easily.
Let's talk about what other OS's offer and how it compares to Microsoft's offerings.
What you guys are talking about doesn't really fall under the realm of "what is offered with the OS," but more or less what is offered with the computer at purchase. As it has been stated already, the OS is the launching platform from which you run all else. By default it should be basic and come with basic utilities. If you want more software, you purchase that software.
What more bundled software do you want with a basic OS?
Bodaggit23
Active Member
That's what the whole discussion is about, as stated by the OP.
It isn't really a full OS because it comes with no office software, antivirus, firewall, doesn't have even most software to open most file types, not like mac or linux.
Side note, i would never go to mac, nobody should, it is the OS of the devil. Linux on the other hand, excellent OS and free and rully working
Right. That would be why I restated/paraphrased the question. The "full OS" statement has been refuted and discussed. Do you not see that this thread has now come full circle in that regard? Does the same argument need to be rehashed?
Eh, I thought someone would get the humor in my above post. Perhaps it was too subtle.
Eh, I thought someone would get the humor in my above post. Perhaps it was too subtle.
Bodaggit23
Active Member
Right. That would be why I restated/paraphrased the question. The "full OS" statement has been refuted and discussed. Do you not see that this thread has now come full circle in that regard? Does the same argument need to be rehashed?
Eh, I thought someone would get the humor in my above post. Perhaps it was too subtle.
Well, subtlety is hard to convey on a forum isn't it. Hard to get inflection
from a typed sentence.
Most often, it just looks like a literal statement.
I agree that an OS needs not be anything other than an OS.
True, from a certain perspective. You are arguing compatibility through quantity, no?
dubesinhower
New Member
i think m$ could learn alot from linux distros. most good linux distros have good package managers and software packages that are available THROUGH THE OS. lol. you can download pretty much anything you want in ubuntu through synaptic. open source, of course.
but m$ wont learn lol.
but m$ wont learn lol.
Now, that would be interesting to see in the Windows world - and actual in-OS store from Microsoft. I wouldn't be surprised if we would see something like that soon. The beginnings are there with the Windows/Microsoft Marketplace. It isn't quite the same though.
The main difference between what you are suggesting and what would most likely come out of Redmond would be that it would be a store whereas the package manager in Ubuntu deals with free, open source software. I think Microsoft is taking some cues from competitors. It just won't be the same as in Ubuntu...ever.
Aastii
VIP Member
because you will always have to pay way over the top for everything microsoft, right?
I think that eventually not just windows but everything will be done electronically or over the internet, eventually everything will be a virtual shop, not a real one, where you pay with virtual money (ie, a credit/debit card) for real things. It aint that far
Well...that's one way of putting it...
We are in the midst of that beginning now. I don't think that storefronts will go away completely though. At least not for certain things (restaurants, clothing outlets, car dealers....).