Posts by Neil

Not surprised

I deal with Ingram at a push, but I tend to favour C2000 and other distrubutors for this exact reason. Trying to deal with Ingram when you have anything more than a purchase to make is right up there with British Telecom, only more less indian and more mockney.

@ Richard

Nor did I lol, but the natural progression would have been C or some OoP based language, not Cobol!

phone the police?

What she has done is nothing short of defrauding each and every one of us, it sickens me.

Wasted money

Would have been cheaper to send them all chastity belts and bonjella.

Double team

I teamed up with myself to make my XP installation more secure. I run as a user and downloaded windows updates. I also installed a firewall. Would you like to interview me now or tomorrow?

@Albert

how about.....reverse?

Like a red rag to a bull

Will there ever be an informed, nuetral article on The Reg which includes the word Microsoft? I've read more informative articles in The Sun.

Point...missed

I think people are missing the point on this. For a start how many of your applications aren't compatible with Windows 7 in native mode? Not that many at all.

XP Mode is really there to draw a line under 32bit Windows and legacy code. It gives Windows 8 the ability to jettison all the old code and cater for backwards compatability through virtualisation and move on to a leaner code base.

I can't see why you would bitch about this, it's the best new feature to appear in Windows for years.

Good

Any competition is good competition. Maybe it will prompt BT to climb out of the dark ages without spitting their dummies out.

Yeehah

Flog that dead horse, flog it good.

In response

@Eddie....Active Directory? Come on seriously? you think NT4 is worth sticking with?

@Stuart I think you'll be surprised if you actually use it. I'm running Windows 7 on a 2ghz Pentium-M and it's just as quick and responsive as XP. Vista didn't last 2 days on it.

I think MS are referring to virtualisation in the style of Xen or Hypervisor. It's not a large additional overhead, it's only virtualising the application, not a copy of XP for each and every old app you run.

I'm looking forward to it

Credit where credit is due. Windows 7 is a great OS and I'm looking forward to trying out the RC. The beta works well on everything I have tried from my old laptop to my multi-core desktop.

@Peyton

"Just because it uses over 100% CPU, that does not make kernel_task a virus!"

Macs can run tasks at over 100% of the available CPU power?

How much can they go up to? 110%? 1000%? 100000%?

yuk

If only someone could take out my engine and drop in an electric one, even if it means losing the boot to batterys.

We need normal cars with electric motors, not wacky 1 seaters. If the technology can't produce this yet then it's not ready for mass use.

Priorities

It's nothing to cry about. Why bother spending all that time building and testing an upgrade path from a Beta product.

Lets not lose sight of what Beta is. The only reason this is a problem is because 7 has proven to be a great product and the uptake of the Beta is so high.

SBMess

SBS 2003 is a great product.

SBS2008 offers the same.....but it's about 150% more expensive.

Ahhh say Microsoft, it's cheaper though if you look at the CAL costs. Yes...if you buy more than 25 CALS that is.

MS have priced their SMB product out of the SMB market.

Nice box

any illegal immegrants hiding in there?

Mobile bashing

I use windows mobile 6 with the company exchange server. Push mail works a treat, google maps plays nicely with the gps. Granted it's not the prettiest OS but it works for me, I think people are being a bit over the top when it comes to bashing it.

Yes it's starting to look aged and needs some new features, but it works.

all is forgiven....

....because it has an apple sticker on it.

The penultimate bag of pic and mix...

....because I've still got a bag here with sweeties in it from Woolies!

Off to ebay

@ Andrew

"And why does the get-me-coat icon look like a pick-pocket at work?"

I always thought it looked like the invisible man receiving hand relief.

4 words

donkey r*ping sh** eaters

Pulling a fast one

Are fast still offering up to £1000 if you dob someone in for copying software?

Can't believe they are still in operation

coke is the real thing

I bet this really gets up Gordons nose

Digging a hole

I just got an email from MS...a technet update about Windows 7, and in the first paragraph it says:

"So what are my first impressions? Well, for me it's those small changes which make it an exciting new OS. When I first tried to access my wireless at home it asked for the network key. But now the default is to display the characters, and the option is to hide them. Hurrah"

How is that secure? come on MS, get the basics right!

*sigh*

@Anonymous Coward

It's not a bug, but a risk. If malware can turn off UAC it current;y doesnt pop up and prompt the user. Therefore the malware can silently disable it.

It's Beta. It's hardly earth shattering news. Beta has flaw. shock horror.

We can moan if it's in the final. UAC is as someone else put it, a bandaid.

Stop putting "everyone" or "domain users" in the local admin groups. Stop running as admin.

ho ho ho

I bet Yahoo and AltaVista thought they had all their christmas presents early......and then had them snatched away again an hour later.

Windows 7

I'm impressed with the Windows 7 Beta so far.

If they release 1 sku it will be the icing on the cake.

I have lost count of the number of times I have been asked to install a server for a small business, and found they are all running XP home (no domain option).

Make it small, fast, secure and affordable....and MS will be on to a winner

The real problem is....

....that unless Linux takes a giant leap into precompiled, click and go usefulness the masses will never "get it", and Windows will continue to eveolve.

Linux was handed its chance with Vista. After testing Windows 7 Beta I think that door is about to be closed for another 3 years.

Shut your ******* face uncle ******

Does this spell the end of...south park?

Mac Vs PC

come on guys....let's clear up Amiga Vs Atari first :p

Fill in the blank

Was it just me or did the advert not mention the word "Vista" once, only "Windows". Even MS won't utter the dreaded V word.

Computer says no

reasons Linux isn't suitable for *me* yet:

Outlook

Exchange

Active Directory

It's not windows itself that stops me from switching full time, it's the functionality that's available to me in an understandable and accessible way. God knows Windows is flawed, and Linux has the potential to destroy it, but these 3 things are what keep me with Windows.

Misty Eyes

Lets not get all sentimentale about XP, Vista is aweful, but XP isn't perfect, I still see spyware infections daily on XP machines (not in my office mind) :) it's far from perfect.

Typical Orange

I had 3 Tyttn2 phones in my office last month, one on orange, one of vodafone and one on O2. All the same handset.

I wanted to use push email with a self signed certificate, 2 of the phones installed the cert no problem, the Orange refused.

Despite numerous HTC the handset makers revealved all. They told us that Orange use their own firmware and that we should email a special orange address to have the certificate made in to a signed cab file that will work on the phone. It worked. Just a shame Orange themselves were completely clueless about it.

I for one will not be going near orange any time soon. They are up there with BT for poor customer service.

@ El'Reg

"Darkies" and "Duskies"

Does anyone moderate this? I'm all for a giggle on the comments boards but not racist remarks, even if they are a poor attempt at humour.

Viruses

I have been cleaning at least 2 PC's a day of this from various home and business customers. It's getting through Symantec, Trend, Norton and AVG. I fix it using SDFix, Spybot and an AVG scan in safe mode.

Another reason why Windows 7 should not be a rehash of Vista!