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Windows 7 and general bitching about OSes
mgz:
not as profitable
molbjerg:
--- Quote from: Dragoon AceHigh on January 09, 2009, 08:26:40 PM ---Make one yourself if you want, or use Xan's cool litestep shell based theme.... and then modify it if you want!
In case you haven't noticed in desktop pic thread, many people use custom themes.
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Thanks for the plug ace ;)
And for those (most) of you who have no idea what he's talking about, scroll to the bottom of my website... watch demo vid here...
On topic, I'll probably use Windows-7 when it comes out, since I want wide compatibility and lots of RAM, but really that's the only reason to upgrade from XP. Linux would probably be better for me overall, but 3DS Max isn't ported to linux - and whoever tells me to use wine can go and die.
costi:
--- Quote ---Blame Microsoft for portability; they're the ones who are creating that problem. OOo doesn't suit your specific needs due to problems with reading a proprietary file format, but that has nothing to do with actual capabilities. Sometimes it works the other way. I was working on a project updating technical manuals, almost all of which were 10 years old and saved in an archaic format that Word couldn't read. OOo could read the files, saving me a hell of a lot of time and effort.
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Proprietary or not, it is THE standard in offices all over the world. Therefore, if OOo aims to be a serious competitor, it must work with MSO formats flawlessly.
Lupin:
--- Quote from: costi on February 09, 2009, 06:48:03 PM ---Proprietary or not, it is THE standard in offices all over the world. Therefore, if OOo aims to be a serious competitor, it must work with MSO formats flawlessly.
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unfortunately that "standard" is proprietary whose specifications are not available for anyone to use. i don't expect OOo to work with ms formats correctly since they only reversed engineered the format to allow them to open it.
since the opendocument format is now an ISO standard, more governments and companies are starting to use it for archiving their documents. open xml is a standard too but unlike opendocument, some specifications of open xml is still proprietary.
dankles:
I know I said I wouldn't post here again after my last comment, but some new evidence of DRM in Win7 is creeping out of the shell:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/16/2259257
I think I will find that my assumptions are correct in that Win7 will have just as much (and already more) DRM.
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