well durrr

Maybe turning off the "find my phone" location service will sort out the tin hat paranoids? Seeing as that's the option you seem to be discussing.

Dear oh dear

Lol... "server", I think we all get the drift and i think El reg is once again showing it's bias... £900 for a slow, non redundent "server" that's nothing more than an expensive media server. I would consider it for a 5 user workplace if it was £300

Bilderberg

Schmidt is at the bilderberg meetings today, he's obviously showing off how he can turn it off and one with a simple switch, prepare for mass net failures in the future

Blah Blah Blah

Same weather forecast that's predicted every year by the Linux crew... I think fish had a better success rate.

Ahhh El Reg

I see my replies are now being dismissed / censored / whatever. Very well El reg, I'm off, you're site and obviously now your moderators seem be a bunch of elitists passing judgments that sway to the minority rather than reporting to the majority, and of which the majority of who rarely know what the hell they are on about or what foundations today’s business is built on.

Just to clarify I enjoy reading and arguing the comments from other OS users and in some cases they raise valid points but I'm not staying around a place that censors my replies to validate my side of an argument,

you guys..

Will you lot ever stop moaning. At least a windows OS doesn't need updating daily.... I'm talking to you "crappy crud" or whatever you're calling yourself these days.

@Columbus

Not when they are one of the same.

Redemption

I am current working on a wind generator that produces 100W per square metre for £30, so don't worry everyone, I will save you all.

@ Why does it matter anyway?

Is that title a pun?

Prices

I thought XP goes legally for under $8 in China, what's the problem?

Why do google assume they can muscle in on everyone's site?

F*** 'em

Sooo

"Decapetaflop machines are expected as of 2011"

The Decaturd learns the meaning of a meatsack @ 31/12/2011 23:59:59.231

The Decaturd learns the meaning of a power switch @ 31/12/2011 23:59:59.544

The Decaturd works out the relationship between a meatsack and a power switch @ 31/12/2011 23:59:59.891

The Decaturd works out a plan for it's own protection @ 31/12/2011 23:59:59.997

Happy 2012 everyone

@Henry Wertz

Vista on a dual Core with 4GB will out perform XP on any task, I'm afraid XP really isn't built with parallelism in mind like vista was, I suggest you go out and use Vista on a 4GB dual core before you pass comment.

I can't comment on Ubuntu I have only used it on a single core 2 GB machine, and after spending ages setting it up with an Nvidia card and linksys wireless card, (which failed after installing the 236 updates I was requested to install) i formatted it after 3 days it really doesn't do much, alright for a home PC maybe.

@Martin Beckett

I'd slap it out purely for the GPOs, new redirected folders, additional peripherals and user security, some software is becoming vista only. Although I'd only do that on new machines as the general age of IT equipment restricts the wide spread deployment of vista.. Unfortunately, depending on what type of company you have it maybe the only way of stopping data from leaving your company boundries.

@Anonymous Coward

Yeah, tell me about it when you have an OS with natively supports Wireless connections on hardware from numerous vendors were you don't have to resort to numerous ndis commands!! I ain't saying shit because as I previously stated whatever comparable facts there are on the differences, improvements or bugs between the different OSs it's always drowned out by.... MS are shit, blah blah blah, baby killers.

I doubt I will be frequenting el reg much longer as you can find better technical articles in other places with comments from people who actually use the OS and have constructive criticism or warning about them and have actual jobs in IT and development, not a load of ill informed mutants who barely know how to use a home PC and like jumping on the latest hate MS craze

Soooo

Open Office has issues, it's Ok, it's not there fault, hey come on guys it's just the way software is you know?

MS Office has issues, Kill Bill, burn all MS developers children and piss on their faces, how dare they do this, what vile disgusting shit, boycot boycot burn!!!

Kinda sums it up, no matter we all really know which the better Office suite is even if you choose not to use it.

@Herby

What's Itanium got to do with x86, if I remember correctly you have to install the IA-64 compiles of the OS and who even cares anywho something better will be out next week, probably by Intel, then IBM, then Intel again then some obscure highly invested Chinese brand will wipe the floor with them both

Hooray

I will not be voicing my opinion on this excellent OS as it will only lead to flaming by the avid el reg anti MS crew.

Uniformity

And what of processor optimisation? this articles blows ass, of course there will be two versions, two versions of shit!

@Bio Gel Packs?

They weren't a source of power your silly boy

"Bio-neural gel packs are a form of computer technology used by Starfleet, first developed circa 2370.

The gel packs form the basis of the bio-neural circuitry, which is essentially an organic computer system. The packs contain neural fibers surrounded in a blue gel with metallic interfaces on the top and bottom. They help store more information and operate at faster speeds than isolinear circuitry. "

Well...

Who knows what will happen, android vs whatever Microsoft slap together (I believe MinWin with Silverlight banged on top), oh MacOS will be the spit bucket of these two competitors. Should be interesting no matter what, if Google get their head out of their arse then maybe all these devices will talk to each other and the world will be a better place.

@William Old

I wasn't refering the tech that this website is built on but merely the fact that if it wasn't for microsoft the IT world today would be a completely different landscape, maybe it would be better but given either the complexity or undeveloped nature of other system and the stupidity of the majority of computer users I for one am glad that microsoft stepped up when they did.

Your amazing new technology

Blows ass, where are the bio gel packs we were promised by voyager?

All I can say is..

What a load of dicks you all are, if it weren't for microsoft none of you would be posting comments on this story infact we would all be probably worse off.

@AC

For conspiracy I would actually say he was taken by the Government to protect his knowledge from the upcoming global conflicts.

but I'm sure he would be great;y missed, shame he never got to see his WWT work released to general public.

RIP

No threat!!!!!

For it to be a security threat doesn't someone actually have to use this browser? I see no threat here what-so-ever.

lol

You really think they're going to let the winning candidate take their rightful place? No, there will be little change in IT apart from the switch over to linux for the army and such (which will backfire) emails will still conviently go missing.

@ryan

"How in Gods name, in this day and age, can an operating sistom be released that can't get file moving right. I'm looking at you Vista."

Sorry i thought you were looking at OS/X for that particular flaw.

species

So what's the price of putting a few mirrors on a rocket?

Errrr

No, I prefer my browser to open when i click the icon not sit there for a f***in month.

You lot can go download this pile of crap and sing kumbya all you want, I'll be using IE8 with shit standards mode turned off.

species

I pull mine from several hacked and pooled wifi connections so i don't give two hoots.

Cheeky Gits

Microsoft created AJAX and now this "ajaxian community" with the help of Goggle is stating it knows better,i'd tell em to suck a fart from my ass and slap a load of EULAs on Ajax

$200 digital camera

Also isn't the datarate something shit like 32kbps, who wants to download some 10Gp picture with that?

Looking back

If I remember correctly the going rate for a japanesse schoolgirl was a new mobile

so

50,000,000 / 10,000 = 5,000 sounds about right for the government, I'll be expecting the bill in my council tax next year.

Yep

This thread is going exactly the way I would expect it to

@Apple vs Orange

Would have been more of an ass kick, vista is much much faster than XP at rendering to screen and takes even more advantage of hardware than XP.

@Richard

And to the foolish comments pining for a reduction in fuel duty: where should the money be spirited from in order to pay for our schools, hospitals, Welfare State etc? A hike in income tax perhaps? From recent experience I think we know how popular that would be.

A few of those 50" plasmas taken off of jobless might help, and then back to food stamps and unmarked tins of food.

Let me save you fanbois the effort

No... Actually its.. blah blah blah

Who care Apple have better blah blah blah

What a rubbish article blah

BS

I don't see OPEC taking 70% on its products, the government cried outrage when the oil produces made profit although they've taken more than all of them put together, what a fucking joke.

To quote some crap film

"Hey look he's moving like a monkey"

Truely his monkey skills (which you all laughed at) have come in handy against this Open Source hippy, to be honest here's were the scales are

Pay Microsoft Millions or Have stupid impatiant children who kill people after having to wait for Open Office and Firefox to load, I mean you lot must waste two or more weeks of your life waiting for that crap to open up.

P.S. At least Ballmers got a nice hero story for around the water cooler, "it was like the matrix"

Ahhh

I think dogs are great, it's gonna be a shame to see them superseded by droids

Vista's Fine

We install Vista on all new machines going into our clients offices, there's no issue what so ever and the new Group policies are a dream, as long as it's on a dual core machine I would recommend it over XP for performance reasons (if it's single core or has less than 1GB then stick with XP), XP seems an awful lot more sluggish than vista on dual cores and starts up a hell of a lot slower.

As for all the moaners here who can't get it working in a business environment I feel sorry for your clients as you are obviously incompetent, a good IT professional or developer will ALWAYS find an answer to a problem, someone who is shit i.e. you, will go for the simpler option of reformat, reinstall then blame MS for any lost work, I suggest you take a change of career you give us all a bad rep.

so

Costs just a little over an iPhone, I guess it's a start although I'm still put off by the rear projection thing, I guess since it uses IR and Lasers then is can be shoved on the front of a monitor though. Shame they're not going to bother producing it.

The humanity

Poor Aliens

Makes me sad

I miss QRIO, I'm disappointed that the Sony discontinued his Asimo kicking ass!

@Evil Graham

I've been too angry of late, apologies.

@Evil Graham

Go back to your back street shop and format a few drives (cause isn't that what you guys do when you can't solve a simple issue?) you stinking hack..

As for the comments of Kstars, stellarium and Celestria this kit isn't the same type of software as it uses real imagery like G sky not a database of points like the other 3. But having used all but Kstars I'll stick with this beta and Celestria with the high res maps.

OMG!!!

Am I reading this right OK first.. cut funding... increase class sizes...... reduce discipline... and now remove office and replace it with some flaky feels like a soggy leaf software, what a fucking joke this government is.

If open office ever gets into schools then that generation will be screwed, what other outcome is there when people are installed with such low expectations.

My kids will be going private becuase I want them to have a future, thanks alot you stupid hippy gits