How bad is IE 7 let alone Vista

[Guest GTT]

...the IE7 view is changed so I cannot find stuff, the ergonomics... the

placement of the home page icon is giving me carpal tunnel. And I have yet

to find my Outlook Express icon on the IE 7 Homepage.

 

Again, Microsoft's evolution incorporating change for the sake of change,

has negatively affected my quality of life.

 

As to XP and Vista? 2K was working fine but MagicJack decided to collude

with Microsoft and designed their unit to only work on registered, legal MS

XP and newer.

 

If only I was techie enough to partition my HD and dual boot with Linux

....pushing applicatins toward Linux We owe MS nothing for their evolution.

In the past I booted Windows 3.11 in...five seconds!! I will never

outgrow Office 97.. I bought a freezer 40 years ago and it still runs almost

perfect. Why accept forced tech change and engineered obsolescence that

does not give you a better quality of life? We owe Microsoft no allegiance.

Why do you let the tail wag the dog?

 

I am beginning to think folk like Larry Ellison and Fiorina and Ballmer are

emblematic of tech Republicans, the coalition of the greediest among us and

the bigots and the racists and the intolerant and the militarist....that

have brought this country to it's knees let alone destroyed one of the only

two political parties of this once great nation.

 

There you go... the politics and the everyday reality of Microsoft and much

of the software industry............

[Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Re: How bad is IE 7 let alone Vista

 

GTT <GreenThumb@nospam.frontiernet.net> wrote:

> ..the IE7 view is changed so I cannot find stuff, the ergonomics...

> the placement of the home page icon is giving me carpal tunnel. And I

> have yet to find my Outlook Express icon on the IE 7 Homepage.

>

> Again, Microsoft's evolution incorporating change for the sake of

> change, has negatively affected my quality of life.

>

> As to XP and Vista? 2K was working fine but MagicJack decided to

> collude with Microsoft and designed their unit to only work on

> registered, legal MS XP and newer.

>

> If only I was techie enough to partition my HD and dual boot with

> Linux ...pushing applicatins toward Linux We owe MS nothing for

> their evolution. In the past I booted Windows 3.11 in...five

> seconds!! I will never outgrow Office 97.. I bought a freezer 40

> years ago and it still runs almost perfect. Why accept forced tech

> change and engineered obsolescence that does not give you a better

> quality of life? We owe Microsoft no allegiance. Why do you let the

> tail wag the dog?

> I am beginning to think folk like Larry Ellison and Fiorina and

> Ballmer are emblematic of tech Republicans, the coalition of the

> greediest among us and the bigots and the racists and the intolerant

> and the militarist....that have brought this country to it's knees

> let alone destroyed one of the only two political parties of this

> once great nation.

> There you go... the politics and the everyday reality of Microsoft

> and much of the software industry............

 

Feeling better?

 

You don't have to use Windows at all, let alone Vista. Hell, you can still

drive a Model T if you want. You have plenty of alternatives should you

choose to use them. Ranting in a technical support *peer newsgroup* is not

going to fix your quality of life issues.

[Guest Ray Parrish]

Re: How bad is IE 7 let alone Vista

 

Hello,

 

You don't have to be very "techie" to install Ubuntu Linux. It will take

care of creating the partition it needs, and automatically sets up a

boot menu so you can select between it and your old Windows system.

 

The Ubuntu Live CD can be used to boot from, and run the Ubuntu

operating system from the CD drive to check to see if Ubuntu works with

your hardware. Then the same disc can be used to install Ubuntu to your

drive.

 

Ubuntu is the most popular of the Linux distributions and has a very

intuitive interface.

 

Get it here =

 

http://www.ubuntu.com

 

Later, Ray Parrish

 

GTT wrote:

>

>

> If only I was techie enough to partition my HD and dual boot with Linux

> ...pushing applicatins toward Linux We owe MS nothing for their evolution.

>

>

 

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