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• I have a very old graphics application that I have used with Windows 3.11, 95, 98, ME, 2000, and XP that would not install on Vista. Guess what! It will install and run on Windows 7 beta. Still only allows 8 character file names, but it will open and edit my photos. Bravo for Pro Image Plus.
  
  On the other hand, some newer applications such as Nero 7 Essentials do not load properly in Windows 7. (The LightScribe function will not install from the LightScribe edition CD, yet the function will install from the LightScribe website.) Go figure that one! Probably this type problems will be ironed out by RTM time. In reply to: "Microsoft wants to 'rescue' apps for Windows 7"

  March 14, 2009

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• If Firefox (or somebody else) wrote a program for web browsing that would do what IE (whatever version) would do, I might consider uninstalling or deactivating IE. That hasn't happened yet. For instance, will somebody show me how to create a desktop shortcut to the current webpage that I am visiting with a simple mouse click as I can do with IE? NO, When all the other chasers catch up to Internet Explorer, I will consider using one of them, Until then, I not only retain IE on my computer...........I use it exclusively. In reply to: "Why I won't be turning off Internet Explorer 8"

  March 11, 2009

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• You took something that was fixed and you broke it. WHY, WHY, WHY can you not leave something that is not broken alone???????? In reply to: "Welcome to the new Download.com"

  October 8, 2008

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• The coming thing in both high schools and colleges is paperless schooling in which the student does, in fact, turn in their "printed" work via email. Many schools are currently experimenting with this idea - completely eliminating paper and ink for most work. In reply to: "CherryPal desktop has friendly $249 price tag"

  August 14, 2008

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• rbslack, I need to know where products that you design and implement are sold so I can be sure that I never get stuck with one of them. If you find Vista to be "by far one of the most efficient versions to date", I certainly have absolutely no confidence in anything you might design or implement and would need to avoid any of them at all costs. In reply to: "Microsoft: Vista is so misunderstood!"

  May 22, 2008

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• Might be a small bit of entertainment if there were a video of the worst downloads of 2008. As it stands, this qualifies at the number 1 position. If you couldn't create a video, why did you not just list the worst downloads? In reply to: "CNET Top 5: Worst downloads of 2008 (so far)"

  May 13, 2008

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• I hope the only reason that Windows Vista was not at least second on this list is that Vista is not technically a download. It has to be one of the two worst "software developments" of 2007. In reply to: "Top 5 worst downloads of 2007"

  January 30, 2008

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• I have had the opportunity to test both Vista SP1 RC (prior to any of the refreshes) and XP SP3 (prior to any of the refreshes). In a sentence, Vista SP1 really screwed up an already badly screwed up screwed up system. Even the Micro$oft special error reporting site failed to function. XP SP3, on the other hand didn't cause any previously functioning applications not to function and did not cause any noticeable change in the overall system operation. XP SP3 does improve the lack of interoperability between Vista and XP computers on the same home network. The thing that I fail to understand is why must all the residents of the sub-division (Windows XP) have to conform to the quirky whims of the new family (Vista) that just moved in down the street? Would it not have made better sense to have made changes to Vista operate with XP instead of every XP machine having to make concessions to Vista??? I only hope that by the time the final refresh becomes production version that It fixes at least a few of the hundreds of operational problems and designed-in frustrations that Vista is overrun with.
  
  p.s.: Yes, I did have to uninstall Vista SP1 because it made my poorly functioning machine generally non-functioning. Remember, the error reporting website didn't even work either - probably overloaded. In reply to: "Microsoft updates Vista SP1 test build"

  January 24, 2008

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• Amen Brother!!
  I just wish someone in the open source community would listen to you and realize that your observation is all it would take to crush M$. "User friendly" should not be a dirty word in the development community. In reply to: "Windows watch starts to point to 7"

  January 23, 2008

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• Good Plan
  I am "technically challenged" so this might be a technically unreasonable plan. Why not just offer the base OS as Andy suggests and offer all the plug-in's on an individual basis. Some specified number of OS plug-in's would be available with the basic package and others available at extra cost. A user level (without all the technical jargon) description of each plug-in would guide the user who would install a few at initial installation and then, over time, add a few more as they realized they needed something more. In reply to: "Windows watch starts to point to 7"

  January 23, 2008

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