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  1. Yeah, there's 14 adverts. I liked XP and so do a lot of other people, still heavily used in business environments. All of the self checkout's in supermarkets run on Windows XP.

    Low quality encode of Biffco Mix, you're not kidding. 64Kbps
  2. For the year though that'd have been pretty high-quality. Promo CDs I have only have songs encoded at 128kbps.

    XP is still solid as anything. I know people who won't upgrade because they think W7 and Vista are too unstable.
  3. I went to Vista and regret the decision, now running Windows 7 I think it's possibly the best OS from Microsoft. Hopefully Windows 8 doesn't take the same step backwards that Vista made.
  4. I didn't mind Vista, but W7 is probably the best of this decade. What I'm looking forward to is the new interface of W8 - to see how it works out and see if it really does simplify things - but I don't want it too simple that it becomes dumb like OSX.

    Not to say I don't like OSX - but at times it's a little bit strange the way it works.
  5. I used the developer preview of Windows 8 a while ago and from what I could gather it's the same functionality and interface of Windows 7 (with some improvements and additions I'm sure) but it has the metro style interface set as default. So everything is available from the tiles like below:



    But you can peel that away to reveal the standard Windows desktop. Obviously designed to introduce themselves to the tablet and touch PC market, in that sense I guess it'll be a hit. Metro for standard desktop though might be a little limited.
  6. I thought it was the only interface you could have. That's good, at least it won't totally be shit-canned by people not willing to try it out. Not too bad-looking, and to finally get something newer than a start bar and a clock in the corner.

    That's the problem with the iPhone...while it might be easy and well-known, after, what - four years - might be time for a slight change.
  7. There is a 'Desktop' tile which takes you to this familiar (Yet altered, new start icon etc) desktop:



    Interested to see how well the ribbon toolbar works in file explorer too.

    Worst thing about Apple prodcuts in my opinion is that year after year they keep releaseing the same, locked down software. Apart from moving apps around and changing the background, where's the customisability? To be fair, the UI on the iPod/iPad/iPhone isn't that good looking anyway.
  8. That's the problem, they never do anything truly exciting. You can talk about it all you like but a couple of features everywhere else doesn't make for interesting conversation.
  9. Apple's work, and to be fair, have presented a lot of inventions. Hell, Bill Gates seemed to be a bit jealous of Steve Jobs. Especially his sense for design.

    I've used quite a lot of Microsoft stuff, and it always feel nicer when you get something from Apple.
  10. The designs are nice, but you gotta wonder how locked-down can you get before something becomes like a fortress.
  11. Originally posted by drewhigginsThe designs are nice, but you gotta wonder how locked-down can you get before something becomes like a fortress.


    DREW!!!

    Have you slept or already or have you stayed up til, what is it, 6:37am?
  12. Yes, six hours ago for about four hours. Why?
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