From my preference, Vista is Windows Me II. If MSoft would just rename it as that, the IT community will be peaceful.
Yeah, I agree Vista Ultimate is a complete scam, the Dreamscene (useless but its still a feature) function has now been removed from Ultimate cause MSoft decide not to support it.
I am an Windows convert!!!! Got my MBP for a week already and its almost perfect!!!. I bring it to class everyday to record lectures and to type notes. Works like a champ.
Oh yeah what is 802.1X? I only know 802.11a/b/g/n
802.1X is a company wifi standard that allows for more security. It basically authenticates you as a user with your own set of credentials & can authenticate that against a database of users so each person's access is independently managed & your wifi password isn't easily passed along or cracked.
802.1X issues are further complicated by the multitude of methods used to employ it. Anyone looking to use 802.1X really should look into an implementation that has proven to be cross platform compliant. There are a lot of implementations out there that play nice with Windows & no one else, more to the fault of the implementation than the end user OS.
Yep, right on. You said,"There are also two other reasons why it's not much of a comparison - MS counts 'shipped' and 'presumed shipped' as sold since OEM's pay them upfront per quarter guessing how many licenses they need - which MS immediately counts as 'sold' so anything that has left the factory and orim ght leave the factory is counted as sold according to MS press releases.
There is a new wrinkle in that now Ms is making OEM's count everything as a Vista sale even if people "downgrade" to XP on that order since to them, you're paying for Vista, it counts as 1 sold, who cares what you actually run ..."
Gates proves he is more and more lost to reality when he is boasting about Vista's 140 million in units sold. Yep, some people like Vista, many really hate it, but to make such a statement shows that he feels that he can ignore reality (same with Ballmer-- "if enough Windows users want XP we will sell it.") then I have to wonder just how stable Microsoft really is these days.
If the captain of a ship is wandering in the galley and not steering, then just where is the ship going? Towards the rocks??? :-)
I've scoured the referenced AT&T iPhone page and can see no reference to the new Wi-Fi part of the plan. I'm eager to see if it allows access by other devices (such as my MBP) but there's not a peep about it on the site I'm looking at.
The one thing I miss about my old T-Mobile plan was the unlimited Wi-Fi option... I had a promo price on my contract and it was only like $5 a month... would like to see something like that from ATT. I know ATT gives their home DSL customers free "basic" wi-fi but I haven't seen anything like that for their wireless customers. Admittedly I haven't looked very hard but this posting has me thinkin' about it again...
Yes, because of course I believed it . And the iPhone hasn't even made it over here yet so I could care less about those stories.
The fake iPhone story was used as an example of how you need to use your noggin when reading blog trash. I mention it because--unlike the case of a "tardy" 10.5.3 update--I'm sure some investors got burned by the fake story. In the case of the "tardy" Mac OS X point update of which you complain, rumors sites including AppleInsider are rife with stories about pre-release versions being seeded to developers, long before the public release, but no such stories had appeared at the time of the false blog about 10.5.3 being imminent for public release in March.
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I may have only just started using Vista, but I can say it has been an awful lot more reliable than Leopard on this machine so far ... and it is certainly not difficult to use.
Enough.
No, not enough ;-) I'm essentially expert with Windows and Mac OS X, and Vista is a pain in the ars. By default, its configuration is buried in heaps of user helpfulness, with no clear indication that the path the user is being dragged along is what they really want. Windows' expert mode (e.g., classic control panels) has configuration options scattered all over the place. Don't you just love UAC in your face all the time? Sure, you can disable it, so Microsoft is off the hook when you get infected. How often do you drag-and-drop to install an application in Windows? Have you ever enjoyed the experience of migrating from one Windows system to another?
I think there's too many people making comments on things that they don't know enough about.
10.5.3 is a significant release, weighing in again at around 400MB for the delta.
There are significant failings in 10.5.2 that only certain customers would experience. These are largely Enterprise customers. There are key focus areas in 10.5.3 which were worked on, e.g. 802.1X in AirPort and the Active Directory plug-in. The majority of Mac users never touch these features and that's why you wouldn't have known they weren't working well at all.
I get sick of these complaints, go build your own OS.
Outside vendors cannot address the issues that they have with their software until Apple addresses it's issues. IOW, 10.5.3 is expected to finally get things on the right track, once it it's finished. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the vendors are waiting.
I'm still having issues where my MBP aircard is scanning even though I'm already connected. Printing over wifi is broken ever since 10.5.2. So... looking forward to .3
I've had the exact same issue with my MBP. It is driving me nuts.
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From my preference, Vista is Windows Me II. If MSoft would just rename it as that, the IT community will be peaceful.
Yeah, I agree Vista Ultimate is a complete scam, the Dreamscene (useless but its still a feature) function has now been removed from Ultimate cause MSoft decide not to support it.
I am an Windows convert!!!! Got my MBP for a week already and its almost perfect!!!. I bring it to class everyday to record lectures and to type notes. Works like a champ.
Oh yeah what is 802.1X? I only know 802.11a/b/g/n
802.1X is a company wifi standard that allows for more security. It basically authenticates you as a user with your own set of credentials & can authenticate that against a database of users so each person's access is independently managed & your wifi password isn't easily passed along or cracked.
802.1X issues are further complicated by the multitude of methods used to employ it. Anyone looking to use 802.1X really should look into an implementation that has proven to be cross platform compliant. There are a lot of implementations out there that play nice with Windows & no one else, more to the fault of the implementation than the end user OS.
There is a new wrinkle in that now Ms is making OEM's count everything as a Vista sale even if people "downgrade" to XP on that order since to them, you're paying for Vista, it counts as 1 sold, who cares what you actually run ..."
Gates proves he is more and more lost to reality when he is boasting about Vista's 140 million in units sold. Yep, some people like Vista, many really hate it, but to make such a statement shows that he feels that he can ignore reality (same with Ballmer-- "if enough Windows users want XP we will sell it.") then I have to wonder just how stable Microsoft really is these days.
If the captain of a ship is wandering in the galley and not steering, then just where is the ship going? Towards the rocks??? :-)
Just a thought.
The one thing I miss about my old T-Mobile plan was the unlimited Wi-Fi option... I had a promo price on my contract and it was only like $5 a month... would like to see something like that from ATT. I know ATT gives their home DSL customers free "basic" wi-fi but I haven't seen anything like that for their wireless customers. Admittedly I haven't looked very hard but this posting has me thinkin' about it again...
Yes, because of course I believed it
The fake iPhone story was used as an example of how you need to use your noggin when reading blog trash. I mention it because--unlike the case of a "tardy" 10.5.3 update--I'm sure some investors got burned by the fake story. In the case of the "tardy" Mac OS X point update of which you complain, rumors sites including AppleInsider are rife with stories about pre-release versions being seeded to developers, long before the public release, but no such stories had appeared at the time of the false blog about 10.5.3 being imminent for public release in March.
I may have only just started using Vista, but I can say it has been an awful lot more reliable than Leopard on this machine so far ... and it is certainly not difficult to use.
Enough.
No, not enough ;-) I'm essentially expert with Windows and Mac OS X, and Vista is a pain in the ars. By default, its configuration is buried in heaps of user helpfulness, with no clear indication that the path the user is being dragged along is what they really want. Windows' expert mode (e.g., classic control panels) has configuration options scattered all over the place. Don't you just love UAC in your face all the time? Sure, you can disable it, so Microsoft is off the hook when you get infected. How often do you drag-and-drop to install an application in Windows? Have you ever enjoyed the experience of migrating from one Windows system to another?
10.5.3 is a significant release, weighing in again at around 400MB for the delta.
There are significant failings in 10.5.2 that only certain customers would experience. These are largely Enterprise customers. There are key focus areas in 10.5.3 which were worked on, e.g. 802.1X in AirPort and the Active Directory plug-in. The majority of Mac users never touch these features and that's why you wouldn't have known they weren't working well at all.
I get sick of these complaints, go build your own OS.
Outside vendors cannot address the issues that they have with their software until Apple addresses it's issues. IOW, 10.5.3 is expected to finally get things on the right track, once it it's finished. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the vendors are waiting.
I'm still having issues where my MBP aircard is scanning even though I'm already connected. Printing over wifi is broken ever since 10.5.2. So... looking forward to .3
I've had the exact same issue with my MBP. It is driving me nuts.
That's because of the superior XP design.
I lol'd!!