"Whoever designed Word 2007 should be taken out back, then stabbed, shot and cattle-prodded. It still takes me forever to find what the hell I want on the non-customizable tool bars. "
Well done for your blind arrogance and brainless stupidity sir. The man who headed the Office 2007 team was promoted to the head of Windows development to help create Windows 7. You're effectively saying the guy who has now helped develop potentially one of the most popular OS's since XP (8 years in the buisiness is an age) deserves to be shot for being a genius. The changes in Office 2007 were necessary because, like folk said above, productivity sucked unless you knew exactly where every option is, and then wanted to search and/or plough through menus every time you wanted to use the same function. Just like the jumplist/MRU list on an app-by-app level that is in windows 7, functions moved to the top when you use them in office 2007 - we almost shouldve guessed that an app-by-app based MRU would come into play sooner or later. It was a necessary change, just like Vista - the tech in Vista was sound, just badly implemented and a bit to boisterous for most of the software out here. The VXP implementation in Windows 7 looks like we might finally be rid of the majority of the compatibility bloat in Windows 7, meaning less bugs, vulnerabilities and a faster OS. I'm just hoping that this is the precursor to something awesome come Windows 8; one step at a time.
On a sidenote: If Windows XP stops getting updates (this June for most I believe?), will that not introduce potential security vulnerabilities? Only one thing I could think of would be that the virtualised apps are in fact sandboxed, but that still means theres a chance of the virtualised apps becoming corrupted and/or unusable due to the entire underlying VM getting hosed. I guess we'll find out.
It seems that 16:9/16:10 will eventually become the standard, when windows 7 ships. It has some nifty window management features to split two apps exactly across one half of the screen. I'm currently using it on my 24" 1920x1200 panel, and it makes it a bunch easier to arrange two apps quickly.
That doesnt sound all that logical, considering you would have to minimuse or otherwise move from the fullscreen app to reply to them.
These sort of devices are no more than novelties, and afaik sideshow technology was primarily aimed at notebooks, to allow a small screen to show info and save power with main monitor off. Like playing music with the screen closed. Other than that, I think its just an "okay" idea paired with little market support, leading to its quick death.
Intels high price of $199 for a 45nm tech 3ghz processor just destroys my familys hopes of going on holiday for the next 5 years. Get real, prices are lower than they have ever been, the performane intel processors manage coupled with the impressive overclocking headroom every chip since conroe launched has had, is simply outstanding for the price.
Because sony is not a bleeding-edge microprocessor manufacturer. Hell, the cell wasnt even their processor, it was IBM's, and Toshiba and Sony came along for the ride. (Basically).
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Well done for your blind arrogance and brainless stupidity sir.
The man who headed the Office 2007 team was promoted to the head of Windows development to help create Windows 7. You're effectively saying the guy who has now helped develop potentially one of the most popular OS's since XP (8 years in the buisiness is an age) deserves to be shot for being a genius. The changes in Office 2007 were necessary because, like folk said above, productivity sucked unless you knew exactly where every option is, and then wanted to search and/or plough through menus every time you wanted to use the same function. Just like the jumplist/MRU list on an app-by-app level that is in windows 7, functions moved to the top when you use them in office 2007 - we almost shouldve guessed that an app-by-app based MRU would come into play sooner or later. It was a necessary change, just like Vista - the tech in Vista was sound, just badly implemented and a bit to boisterous for most of the software out here. The VXP implementation in Windows 7 looks like we might finally be rid of the majority of the compatibility bloat in Windows 7, meaning less bugs, vulnerabilities and a faster OS. I'm just hoping that this is the precursor to something awesome come Windows 8; one step at a time.
On a sidenote: If Windows XP stops getting updates (this June for most I believe?), will that not introduce potential security vulnerabilities? Only one thing I could think of would be that the virtualised apps are in fact sandboxed, but that still means theres a chance of the virtualised apps becoming corrupted and/or unusable due to the entire underlying VM getting hosed. I guess we'll find out.