That's usually something Mac boys give Windows users hell about. "Why do you need to know what type of file it is? The computer knows..."

Must be nice being a niche market computer user. I would love to see Macs popular enough that virus writers roto-rootered their back doors through masked files.

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That's actually one thing I'd like to see in Mac OSX. I like being able to change certain extensions to .txt to quickly and easily have it read in a simple text editor. Doubt I will, though.

Until the recent installation of a new video card (and its buggy driver) my XP install completed way back in 2002 has been rock solid and apparently impervious to hacks (combined with three firewalls, antivirus, antispam, and antispyware)

I'll change the video card before I change the operating system.

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Whoever says "perception is reality" is daft. It's merely an abstraction, and often not a very good one.

This should be fun:

Don't forget Office 2007 which comes out with Vista.

According to this major news source's review, the products are "revolutionary".


Oh; just to point out, that I'm being sarcastic...MS-NBC reviews Office? I wonder how many people think this is un-biased.

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I saw a pre-view of the new Word a few months ago, and it seemed to have lots of flash and little change in substance.

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Probably the same people who think the Fox Network is fair and unbiased?

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Sounds like the Windows 98 rollout. Pretty much the same thing as Win95, but with USB support built-in rather than an add-on, and a few extras re Admin/User options.

It was a wonderful moment when Gates was demoing it live, and Windows 98 not only froze but displayed the BSoD!

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Truly one of the great moments of computing. However, to be fair, I think this was only after plugging in 114+ USB devices (out of the theoretical maximum of 127 that the bus can support). Think of it as the computer's way of saying, "not tonight, I've got a headache."

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Ridden hard and put away dead.

I've seen the same thing happen to the other guys too.

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That is of course if you are buying in the US. In the UK exactly the same software bought from microsoft is about £250. Thats $490!

I'm wondering if they'll even go the service pack route this time, and instead resort strictly to the online automatic updates, while always releasing the most currently updated version as time goes by.

Regardless, I'll wait about a year, too, as my XP system hasn't crashed in years, and still plays MS Flight Simulator with stellar aplomb.

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Whoever says "perception is reality" is daft. It's merely an abstraction, and often not a very good one.

And here lies the crux. I don't give a rat's butt if the OS is secure, security is a yanked modem cord away. There are enough third party players out there that can offer the necessary levels of security.

Just make it do what I tell it to do, and only what I tell it to do, and when I tell it to do it. Macroshaft needs to stop running installs with the ports open and the features activated and let people pick and choose what to turn on, instead of the marathon nonsense of trying to find all the crap to turn off. With XP, there were features I felt like I needed a damned exorcism to finally shut down, and even then I still wasn't sure.

I'll consider Vista when my hardware makers tell me they're ready for it and at least one major service pack is issued to cover the most critical flaws in the system, maybe even the second.

IIRC you'll need Vista if you want to play Halo 2...