2010/8/23-9/7 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:53932 Activity:low | 9/21 are you guys really all using win7 in some way now?
\_ Yes. In my company, we have upgraded all our machines for
development, QA and other office use (HR, Finance, Receptions, etc.)
from WinXP to Win7 a few months ago. Our products now primarily
support Win7/Win2008 and secondarily support WinXP/Win2003.
\_ Any weird gotchas support-wise?
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2010/4/28-5/10 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:53807 Activity:nil | 4/28 Win 3.1 was more widely adopted than Win 3.0. Win XP (5.1) was more
widely adopted than Win 2k (5.0). Now it looks like Win 7 (6.1) is
going to be more widely adopted than Vista (6.0). Is this a trend on
Microsoft x.0 versions being bad?
\_ duh.
\_ "more widely adopted" ... well... what are you basing these numbers
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2010/2/18-3/9 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53713 Activity:nil | 2/18 Why is there now Firefox 3.5.8 when there was already 3.6 a month ago?
\_ Why is there Windows XP SP3 when there was already Vista?
Generally companies manage patches for at least two levels of
product. -tom
\_ I see. So Fx 3.6 is more like a new version than an update to
3.5.x. --- OP
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2009/10/24-11/3 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:53465 Activity:nil | 10/24 Should Windows 7 be really called 6.1 instead, given that there are no
big new features over Vista?
\_ If you have to measure iPod by feature, then it really blows
compared to what M$ has to offer. Only stupid PMs value
a product by the number of features out there.
\_ Even the "ver" and "winver" commands in Windows 7 say the
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2009/6/1-3 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:53068 Activity:high | 5/31 History of winners and losers by *popularity*:
VHS > Beta Max
USB2 > Firewire
x86 > PowerPC > Everything Else > DEC Alpha > Itanium
BlueRay > HDDvd
\_ It's too early to tell RE: "Blue"Ray. They may both turn out to be
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2008/6/11-13 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/OS/VM] UID:50230 Activity:nil | 6/11 To the person who asked about VirtualBox...
I just tried it out with XP and Vista as the guest OS and it seems as
feature-complete and responsive as VMware. USB devices mount nicely
and can be filtered well. I haven't tried a network share between the
host and guest though.
\_ Does USB 2.0 devices work? Thx. (not the original person who
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