For me, Windows stopped being a pain with Windows 95.
To each his/her own! I'm sure for some people DLL Hell is pure sweetness. Some people just love virus definition updates, scans, defragging and complete, annual OS reinstalls to remedy "odd" behavior, too.
Except anyone who's owns or is working at a business that doesn't serve chicken wings. I'm actually pretty sure they'd use office too, now that I think about it.
iPad. Three years now. Hasn’t needed Office. Sold to thousands of businesses and schools in the hundreds of thousands.
You’re obviously embarrassingly wrong. Why would you even say something like this?
I wonder what kind of resolution support there will be. With airplay display and a bluetooth keyboard the only missing part is a bluetooth mouse before I can use an iOS-device as a thin client in the office.
To each his/her own! I'm sure for some people DLL Hell is pure sweetness. Some people just love virus definition updates, scans, defragging and complete, annual OS reinstalls to remedy "odd" behavior, too.
Everything you say is true. I have been seriously considering switching to Mac someday. I never even considered it until I became an iOS fan.
Everything you say is true. I have been seriously considering switching to Mac someday. I never even considered it until I became an iOS fan.
If/when you switch, don't expect any miracles, give yourself a couple weeks to get basically acclimated, and you'll do fine. You will be so glad to have rid yourself of all the time-consuming chores, expense and slow-downs associated with Windows management. It's also a nice feeling to no longer be contributing to the heavy-handed marketing machine of Microsoft, as embodied by Steve "Monkeyboy" Ballmer.
While I agree with you Team Viewer is blocked by many company firewalls but RDP is often not in order to allow "Helpdesk" to remote control a machine.
Personally however I prefer Dameware because it can be setup to automatically install and remove the client on the desired machine when you try to connect to it. Nice feature that one. Saves on explaining over the phone how to install the client.
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I hope it works better than the OS X version. The OS X version crashes constantly. All you have to do is look at the screen wrong and it will quit unexpectedly.
That's because the Mac version of RDP hasn't been updated in about 5 years. There is however supposed to be a new version coming out for Mac shortly. Here's hoping.
If/when you switch, don't expect any miracles, give yourself a couple weeks to get basically acclimated, and you'll do fine. You will be so glad to have rid yourself of all the time-consuming chores, expense and slow-downs associated with Windows management. It's also a nice feeling to no longer be contributing to the heavy-handed marketing machine of Microsoft, as embodied by Steve "Monkeyboy" Ballmer.
At work I used a Mac regularly from 1987 to 1994 but things have changed a lot since System 7, where my familiarity ends.
At work I used a Mac regularly from 1987 to 1994 but things have changed a lot since System 7, where my familiarity ends.
You're the inverse of me.
I used to maintain my girlfriend's (now wife's) Mac for her in the late 1990s and found Mac OS to be positively archaic at that time. Having to install huge amounts of RAM to prevent large applications from overwriting each other due to lack of proper memory protection, painstakingly tracking down extension conflicts, etc. No thanks.
However, when I first read about Rhapsody (now OS X) and it's marrying of BSD UNIX (I was using Linux at the time) with an easy to use UI and backwards compatibility for existing Mac OS applications (something Linux was lacking), I was really excited to try it out. I've been hooked ever since.
At work I used a Mac regularly from 1987 to 1994 but things have changed a lot since System 7, where my familiarity ends.
You're the inverse of me.
I used to maintain my girlfriend's (now wife's) Mac for her in the late 1990s and found Mac OS to be positively archaic at that time. Having to install huge amounts of RAM to prevent large applications from overwriting each other due to lack of proper memory protection, painstakingly tracking down extension conflicts, etc. No thanks.
However, when I first read about Rhapsody (now OS X) and it's marrying of BSD UNIX (I was using Linux at the time) with an easy to use UI and backwards compatibility for existing Mac OS applications (something Linux was lacking), I was really excited to try it out. I've been hooked ever since.
Designing a great UI for a rock solid foundation was easier than fixing Windows.
Everything you say is true. I have been seriously considering switching to Mac someday. I never even considered it until I became an iOS fan.
Same here. Have been using Windows ever since I learned how to use a computer. Started with Windows 95, but I totally gave up when I learned about Windows 8 and it's totally "new" Metro interface. I thought to myself: "If I had to learn how to use an OS all over again, I might as well learn how to use a Mac."
And I did. Switched entirely to Mac and liking every minute of it.
Lmao! So it's out on ios BEFORE it's own products? Seriously, it sounds like the best decision MS could make in this case. Just bite down, accept it, and make the most of it.
If your meaning Windows Phone then your right (not sure who wants to RDP on there phone though). If your talking about tablets then no. There's been a win 8 RPD app since it launched.
Not to mention the hovering in a corner to get to the desktop UI in 8. Supposedly a nightmare right now with other remote tools. So glad I don't support Windows anymore.
You just press the windows key to get to the start menu. If your on an RDP window the instruction goes to the remote machine. Not that hard.
Office, hotly anticipated by iPad users? I think not. Pages and Numbers are more than enough, and they work very well with iCloud. And there's also Google's free QuickOffice. Nobody needs Microsoft's products anymore.
Unless you want to connect to an external datasource, and if your reports aren't running off an external datasource then your business needs to have a look at how it's managing it's data. Until the other products get this feature and get it to work simply, I can't really take them seriously.
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For me, Windows stopped being a pain with Windows 95.
To each his/her own! I'm sure for some people DLL Hell is pure sweetness. Some people just love virus definition updates, scans, defragging and complete, annual OS reinstalls to remedy "odd" behavior, too.
Except anyone who's owns or is working at a business that doesn't serve chicken wings. I'm actually pretty sure they'd use office too, now that I think about it.
iPad. Three years now. Hasn’t needed Office. Sold to thousands of businesses and schools in the hundreds of thousands.
You’re obviously embarrassingly wrong. Why would you even say something like this?
By remote control is the only way I'd touch that train wreck.
I'm not seeing it on the app store. Anyone?
Now showing up for me (when I do a search for "Microsoft Remote Desktop").
I don't have a Windows computer but do have several Macs, iPads, and iPhones. Is there a Apple Remote Desktop app to control OS X out for iOS?
iPad. Three years now. Hasn’t needed Office. Sold to thousands of businesses and schools in the hundreds of thousands.
You’re obviously embarrassingly wrong. Why would you even say something like this?
Well then those businesses are the exception then, the majority do use M$ products.. My apologies for the glib comment, it was meant to be funny.
Now showing up for me (when I do a search for "Microsoft Remote Desktop").
Yeah it took a bit, seems to work pretty well from the short test I put it thru.
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To each his/her own! I'm sure for some people DLL Hell is pure sweetness. Some people just love virus definition updates, scans, defragging and complete, annual OS reinstalls to remedy "odd" behavior, too.
Everything you say is true. I have been seriously considering switching to Mac someday. I never even considered it until I became an iOS fan.
What? Using WINDOWS is pain!
Hhahaha!
Totally!
Microsoft users are loosers!! LOOOSERS!!! HAHAHAHAA..
Like the Surface is cool,! HAHAHA
Everything you say is true. I have been seriously considering switching to Mac someday. I never even considered it until I became an iOS fan.
If/when you switch, don't expect any miracles, give yourself a couple weeks to get basically acclimated, and you'll do fine. You will be so glad to have rid yourself of all the time-consuming chores, expense and slow-downs associated with Windows management. It's also a nice feeling to no longer be contributing to the heavy-handed marketing machine of Microsoft, as embodied by Steve "Monkeyboy" Ballmer.
Team Viewer works better anyway.
While I agree with you Team Viewer is blocked by many company firewalls but RDP is often not in order to allow "Helpdesk" to remote control a machine.
Personally however I prefer Dameware because it can be setup to automatically install and remove the client on the desired machine when you try to connect to it. Nice feature that one. Saves on explaining over the phone how to install the client.
I hope it works better than the OS X version. The OS X version crashes constantly. All you have to do is look at the screen wrong and it will quit unexpectedly.
That's because the Mac version of RDP hasn't been updated in about 5 years. There is however supposed to be a new version coming out for Mac shortly. Here's hoping.
If/when you switch, don't expect any miracles, give yourself a couple weeks to get basically acclimated, and you'll do fine. You will be so glad to have rid yourself of all the time-consuming chores, expense and slow-downs associated with Windows management. It's also a nice feeling to no longer be contributing to the heavy-handed marketing machine of Microsoft, as embodied by Steve "Monkeyboy" Ballmer.
At work I used a Mac regularly from 1987 to 1994 but things have changed a lot since System 7, where my familiarity ends.
At work I used a Mac regularly from 1987 to 1994 but things have changed a lot since System 7, where my familiarity ends.
You're the inverse of me.
I used to maintain my girlfriend's (now wife's) Mac for her in the late 1990s and found Mac OS to be positively archaic at that time. Having to install huge amounts of RAM to prevent large applications from overwriting each other due to lack of proper memory protection, painstakingly tracking down extension conflicts, etc. No thanks.
However, when I first read about Rhapsody (now OS X) and it's marrying of BSD UNIX (I was using Linux at the time) with an easy to use UI and backwards compatibility for existing Mac OS applications (something Linux was lacking), I was really excited to try it out. I've been hooked ever since.
Designing a great UI for a rock solid foundation was easier than fixing Windows.
Designing a great UI for a rock solid foundation was easier than fixing Windows.
Admittedly, Windows NT was a good attempt (the other OS I used around that time). But OS X surpassed it in a hurry.
Same here. Have been using Windows ever since I learned how to use a computer. Started with Windows 95, but I totally gave up when I learned about Windows 8 and it's totally "new" Metro interface. I thought to myself: "If I had to learn how to use an OS all over again, I might as well learn how to use a Mac."
And I did. Switched entirely to Mac and liking every minute of it.
You just press the windows key to get to the start menu. If your on an RDP window the instruction goes to the remote machine. Not that hard.
Unless you want to connect to an external datasource, and if your reports aren't running off an external datasource then your business needs to have a look at how it's managing it's data. Until the other products get this feature and get it to work simply, I can't really take them seriously.