And What Evenutally Happened To That Empire?The Strib's headline about the Windows 7 operating system?
"The Empire Strikes Back."
I think I laughed out loud when I first saw it last night. I love the part about "making Apple look stupid":
Windows 7 also could be Microsoft's long-awaited chance to strike back at Apple, whose PC guy vs. Mac guy advertisements lampooned Vista as hopelessly complicated and flawed.
"Windows 7 also is designed to make Apple look stupid, because it's much better than Vista and much leaner, too."
But here's the part that's truly stupid:
The installation process isn't a simple matter of popping a disk into the PC. Data files and programs may be eliminated during the upgrade, so consumers must first copy their data onto external disk drives or finger-sized flash drives.
Windows 7. I'm sure it'll be so much better.
5 Comments:
At 3:07 PM,
Randy said…
I've heard that Mac's never crash. From your personal experience, is that true?
At 3:42 PM,
Bill Tuomala said…
Macs crash less frequently then PCs, which will crash when you follow supposedly "helpful" procedures directly from Windows website and then you will have to spend $250 to get your hard drive restored.
At 4:08 PM,
Bill Tuomala said…
And why on PCs do you have to manually set the NUM lock after booting up? As an accountant, this is frustrating. Macs don't even have this button - you boot up and you're good to go with typing from the numbers pad.
At 9:40 PM,
Randy said…
Yes, I've heard that Macs crash less frequently than PCs. I'm just wondering from your personal experience if this is true. You've owned both PCs and Macs, some of us who read your blog are considering buying a Mac and are wondering your experiences with these crashing.
At 10:03 PM,
Bill Tuomala said…
I have owned three Macs (one of these for only about a month) over the past six years. I've had one disc drive fail (couldn't play CDs but no other problems) and on another Mac had the hard drive replaced. No problem restoring data and programs with the hard drive via Mac's Time Machine.
I had two PCs over the period of nine years. One time the hard drive erased everything for no reason. Once I lost all my emails sent and received for no reason. One time the hard drive crashed (due to instructions given to me by Microsoft's website.) A shop was able to restore the programs and data, but I lost my email address book and all email addresses.
So nine years with PC and six with Mac. I fear less from a Mac crash as it is less likely to happen, Apple support is great, and I have two backups going - one to an Internet site and one to an external hard drive. Also I think a Mac has locked up on me only once, while with PCs that was a much more regular occurence. I do client's work and run my business on my computer, I can't be dealing with control+alt+delete and defrags all the time. Plus you should be able to start typing numbers without having to hit the NUM lock key. (I'm sure Soviet accountants had the same problem.)
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