I bought a Toshiba U3 thumbdrive recently, and installed thunderbird, firefox, opera, and tons of other applications on it. I want to carry my browser favourites, settings, and emails with me to different offices & sites.
Laptop is not an option, besides being too heavy to lug it all day, it is a highly restrictive item in some of my customers' premises. If there is one reason for me to stay with Windows, it is this portable applications. I have grown so much in love in it, so much so that, I booted up Windows Vista for the first time in months at home.
Ah... reminded me why I abandon it in the first place. Incompatibility.
Just like you can't blame Linux for lack of software, you can't exactly blame Vista for this, the software has yet to catch up with it, thus contributing part of the numerous issues. Some still need administrator priviledge to run, and I believe many users are turning off UAC and thus back to the security hole.
I looked at Vista for another moment. It is pretty. Much prettier than XP and Linux. The gadgets graphics is so much nicer than those found in Gnome desklets. What lies beyond the superficial look? The WGA, the DRM, and the dirty tricks like the recent OOXML case. All these are Microsoft's own doing, you can't blame anyone else.
I shut it down for another time, sorry Vista. I walked away a little hardened on my decision to drop Microsoft products, and to evangelize Linux whenever I have the opportunity.
Laptop is not an option, besides being too heavy to lug it all day, it is a highly restrictive item in some of my customers' premises. If there is one reason for me to stay with Windows, it is this portable applications. I have grown so much in love in it, so much so that, I booted up Windows Vista for the first time in months at home.
Ah... reminded me why I abandon it in the first place. Incompatibility.
Just like you can't blame Linux for lack of software, you can't exactly blame Vista for this, the software has yet to catch up with it, thus contributing part of the numerous issues. Some still need administrator priviledge to run, and I believe many users are turning off UAC and thus back to the security hole.
I looked at Vista for another moment. It is pretty. Much prettier than XP and Linux. The gadgets graphics is so much nicer than those found in Gnome desklets. What lies beyond the superficial look? The WGA, the DRM, and the dirty tricks like the recent OOXML case. All these are Microsoft's own doing, you can't blame anyone else.
I shut it down for another time, sorry Vista. I walked away a little hardened on my decision to drop Microsoft products, and to evangelize Linux whenever I have the opportunity.
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