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No. Why would you even use Windows in 2017?

by Artlav 10y ago

mattbgates 10y ago
Love this comment. Hilarious. I still have to use Windows at work. Windows 1.0 began in 1985, moving on to Windows 3.1, 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, and a bunch of servers in there somewhere. You would think that after all these years, they would have learned to make it faster. Have you used the Windows search feature? Insanely slow. Microsoft Outlook is notorious for crashing, which means the Windows operating system can barely handle its Windows applications. In Windows defense, we could blame the server and all that, but with over 30 years of experience, I would have had hope that the word "crash" would have been a thing of the past for a Microsoft. Unfortunately, you and I both know this is still a common issue with Microsoft. Malware? Viruses? Also somehow, that is still a thing. I get it: Microsoft Windows is easy for viruses to take over, but again: 30 years of experience, testing with sandboxes, etc., would make me think that they could quickly prevent viruses or at least stop them dead in their tracks to alert the user. I know that I still have to train older people to do things on Windows. So despite the efforts of Microsoft, Windows is still not as user-friendly to everyone nor is it idiot-proof. I purposely bought my mom a Chromebook just because my mom would kept her credit card information stolen or viruses all the time. I think with the Chromebook, in the 4 years she has been using it, we had one issue in which she downloaded a toolbar extension that attempted to take over the browser. I used to also be a Mac OS user and until recently, when I had needed it to run some servers via terminal, I realized why I stopped using it. It prevents you from wanting to use your own computer and I feel like I'm a prisoner in the Mac OS world. Everything I was doing, from having to download an app, to even saving a file on my computer was nearly impossible. Mac OS users, you try saving a file using TextEdit? Can't even do that anymore. Maybe you can.. I could not figure it out. Downloading an app? Had to enter in my password, then I had to enter in the account's credit card holder information (my girlfriend), and then I had to enter in her credit card information, and then I had to enter in the security code on the back of her credit card, and then I had to verify it through her email address. I thought this was the computer for the professional developer.. apparently not. I have since switched to using just a Chromebook because it requires the least amount of work: Put in my password for my Google account and I am in. I can download at will and without worry about viruses. Everything I need is pretty much online or "there's an extension for that." While I have been using my Macbook again for server-related stuff, I was thinking about just using another Chromebook I had, or another computer I had for Linux, and doing the server-related things on there instead, just because it seems these two are the least intrusive, and not only that: they load faster than Windows and Mac! I definitely don't miss having to use antivirus software... AVG or Avast is what I used to use. AVG got big and spammy and Avast... well, no complaints, but I haven't needed to use that software in years. Lets not even get into the time Norton Antivirus destroyed my computer and locked me out. At least on my work computer, the IT guy has preventative measures to keep the employees from downloading anything. It sucks, but I just make requests for software I need, and he downloads it all on to my computer.
- telebone_man 10y ago
  I genuinely thought this was going to end with a /s... Really? I shut down my Windows 10 Laptop before leaving work yesterday. I forgot to sign into the newly setup wifi. So I connected my Windows 10 phone to it. My Windows 10 phone has my Windows Live account on it. As does my Windows 10 Laptop. Today, I logged into my Windows 10 laptop using my Windows Live username and password, and yesterdays WiFi settings (that I setup on my phone) instantly sync'd with my Windows 10 laptop. At the same time, my Onedrive account sync'd all the files I'd been working on last night, on my Windows 10 desktop. You can get the same 'least amount of work' experience if you fully invest in the Microsoft ecosystem (onedrive.. live.. etc..).
  - offerquant 10y ago
    As you can do it in Chromebook with your android devices or with Mac and iOS devices... MS was the last to implement it though...
    - telebone_man 10y ago
      Are you trying to imply something?
      - offerquant 10y ago
        Nope. Just pointing out, that what you described above is pretty common. You don't need to "fully invest in the Microsoft ecosystem" Peace
romanovcode 10y ago
Don't want to be a buzzkill but MacOS malware is growing faster then Windows malware ever was. 2016 MacOS malware up by ~750%[0]. 2017 will be even bigger. The more users you have - the more malware you get. [0] https://www.macrumors.com/2017/04/06/mac-malware-up-744-percent-in-2016/ https://www.macrumors.com/2017/04/06/mac-malware-up-744-perc...
- behnamoh 10y ago
  Percentage increases don't tell you the whole story. For example suppose you have only "1" malware for your OS. Next year you have "2", a 100% growth rate. Now suppose you have a shitty OS with 1000 malware. Next year it has 1200 malware, a 20% growth rate. Someone without this knowledge would go about and claim the second OS is "safer", but the truth is both OS's are just experiencing an exponential growth rate, the first OS is just at the first stages of the curve.
  - romanovcode 10y ago
    I was not implying that. What I said is that MacOS malware grows like crazy.

No. Why would you even use Windows in 2017?

by Artlav 10y ago

No. Why would you even use Windows in 2017?

Love this comment. Hilarious. I still have to use Windows at work. Windows 1.0 began in 1985, moving on to Windows 3.1, 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, and a bunch of servers in there somewhere. You would think that after all these years, they would have learned to make it faster. Have you used the Windows search feature? Insanely slow. Microsoft Outlook is notorious for crashing, which means the Windows operating system can barely handle its Windows applications. In Windows defense, we could blame the server and all that, but with over 30 years of experience, I would have had hope that the word "crash" would have been a thing of the past for a Microsoft. Unfortunately, you and I both know this is still a common issue with Microsoft. Malware? Viruses? Also somehow, that is still a thing. I get it: Microsoft Windows is easy for viruses to take over, but again: 30 years of experience, testing with sandboxes, etc., would make me think that they could quickly prevent viruses or at least stop them dead in their tracks to alert the user. I know that I still have to train older people to do things on Windows. So despite the efforts of Microsoft, Windows is still not as user-friendly to everyone nor is it idiot-proof. I purposely bought my mom a Chromebook just because my mom would kept her credit card information stolen or viruses all the time. I think with the Chromebook, in the 4 years she has been using it, we had one issue in which she downloaded a toolbar extension that attempted to take over the browser. I used to also be a Mac OS user and until recently, when I had needed it to run some servers via terminal, I realized why I stopped using it. It prevents you from wanting to use your own computer and I feel like I'm a prisoner in the Mac OS world. Everything I was doing, from having to download an app, to even saving a file on my computer was nearly impossible. Mac OS users, you try saving a file using TextEdit? Can't even do that anymore. Maybe you can.. I could not figure it out. Downloading an app? Had to enter in my password, then I had to enter in the account's credit card holder information (my girlfriend), and then I had to enter in her credit card information, and then I had to enter in the security code on the back of her credit card, and then I had to verify it through her email address. I thought this was the computer for the professional developer.. apparently not. I have since switched to using just a Chromebook because it requires the least amount of work: Put in my password for my Google account and I am in. I can download at will and without worry about viruses. Everything I need is pretty much online or "there's an extension for that." While I have been using my Macbook again for server-related stuff, I was thinking about just using another Chromebook I had, or another computer I had for Linux, and doing the server-related things on there instead, just because it seems these two are the least intrusive, and not only that: they load faster than Windows and Mac! I definitely don't miss having to use antivirus software... AVG or Avast is what I used to use. AVG got big and spammy and Avast... well, no complaints, but I haven't needed to use that software in years. Lets not even get into the time Norton Antivirus destroyed my computer and locked me out. At least on my work computer, the IT guy has preventative measures to keep the employees from downloading anything. It sucks, but I just make requests for software I need, and he downloads it all on to my computer.

telebone_man 10y ago
I genuinely thought this was going to end with a /s... Really? I shut down my Windows 10 Laptop before leaving work yesterday. I forgot to sign into the newly setup wifi. So I connected my Windows 10 phone to it. My Windows 10 phone has my Windows Live account on it. As does my Windows 10 Laptop. Today, I logged into my Windows 10 laptop using my Windows Live username and password, and yesterdays WiFi settings (that I setup on my phone) instantly sync'd with my Windows 10 laptop. At the same time, my Onedrive account sync'd all the files I'd been working on last night, on my Windows 10 desktop. You can get the same 'least amount of work' experience if you fully invest in the Microsoft ecosystem (onedrive.. live.. etc..).
- offerquant 10y ago
  As you can do it in Chromebook with your android devices or with Mac and iOS devices... MS was the last to implement it though...
  - telebone_man 10y ago
    Are you trying to imply something?
    - offerquant 10y ago
      Nope. Just pointing out, that what you described above is pretty common. You don't need to "fully invest in the Microsoft ecosystem" Peace

romanovcode 10y ago

Don't want to be a buzzkill but MacOS malware is growing faster then Windows malware ever was. 2016 MacOS malware up by ~750%[0]. 2017 will be even bigger. The more users you have - the more malware you get. [0] https://www.macrumors.com/2017/04/06/mac-malware-up-744-percent-in-2016/ https://www.macrumors.com/2017/04/06/mac-malware-up-744-perc...

behnamoh 10y ago
Percentage increases don't tell you the whole story. For example suppose you have only "1" malware for your OS. Next year you have "2", a 100% growth rate. Now suppose you have a shitty OS with 1000 malware. Next year it has 1200 malware, a 20% growth rate. Someone without this knowledge would go about and claim the second OS is "safer", but the truth is both OS's are just experiencing an exponential growth rate, the first OS is just at the first stages of the curve.
- romanovcode 10y ago
  I was not implying that. What I said is that MacOS malware grows like crazy.