Comments on: CAFC Gives Microsoft Word Stay, and I HATE Vista! http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/09/08/cafc-gives-microsoft-word-stay-and-i-hate-vista/id=5838/ Patents, Software Patents, Patent Applications & Patent Law Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:54:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: twitter http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/09/08/cafc-gives-microsoft-word-stay-and-i-hate-vista/id=5838/#comment-8199 twitter Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:48:47 +0000 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/?p=5838#comment-8199 Don't throw your computer out the window, throw Windows out of your computer. There are many good <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html" rel="nofollow">Free Software</a> distributions that will run very well on your old computers. I bought my 2002 vintage Thinkpad X30 used in 2005 and it continues to serve me well every day. If anything, free software has gotten better on it. Many distributions of free software will run off CD, so you can try it out without touching your hard drive. <a href="http://www.mepis.org" rel="nofollow">Mepis</a> and <a>Ubuntu</a> are good for this but Mepis would probably be the easiest for you. Replace Vista and XP with it and you won't look back. Don’t throw your computer out the window, throw Windows out of your computer. There are many good Free Software distributions that will run very well on your old computers. I bought my 2002 vintage Thinkpad X30 used in 2005 and it continues to serve me well every day. If anything, free software has gotten better on it. Many distributions of free software will run off CD, so you can try it out without touching your hard drive. Mepis and Ubuntu are good for this but Mepis would probably be the easiest for you. Replace Vista and XP with it and you won’t look back.

]]> By: patent leather http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/09/08/cafc-gives-microsoft-word-stay-and-i-hate-vista/id=5838/#comment-8145 patent leather Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:54:41 +0000 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/?p=5838#comment-8145 Vista was a nightmare for me too. But what I find funny about this thread is that a column about the ills of Vista gets triple the comments than your column about John Doll resigning!! That tells you something right there... Vista was a nightmare for me too. But what I find funny about this thread is that a column about the ills of Vista gets triple the comments than your column about John Doll resigning!! That tells you something right there…

]]> By: Gene Quinn http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/09/08/cafc-gives-microsoft-word-stay-and-i-hate-vista/id=5838/#comment-8142 Gene Quinn Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:40:24 +0000 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/?p=5838#comment-8142 Gareth- Thanks for your comment. I know Mac has compatibility issues, due to straight out poor business decisions by Apple and the continued doubling and tripling down of those bad business decisions. But at least the computer works. Vista is a nightmare. I am going to go to XP with new machines, but cannot down grade my current machines without first upgrading Vista and then paying for XP. I refuse to pay extortion to Microsoft both to upgrade Vista for the privilege of then paying again to downgrade, and I to pay for upgrading to 7. Vista is crap, doesn't work, has compatibility issues with Microsoft's own products, not to mention others and hardware and there is no way I will ever pay to upgrade a horribly defective operating system, so paying to upgrade to 7 is out of the question. I cannot believe the government and consumer groups are going to allow them to force people to pay to upgrade from their horribly defective release. That is corruption if you ask me. I am through with Microsoft and will be switching over to Apple soon enough. I will still have use for the XP machines though because the search software I am acquiring will run on XP only, cannot work on Vista, and even though future generations will work on 7 I will never find out. -Gene Gareth-

Thanks for your comment. I know Mac has compatibility issues, due to straight out poor business decisions by Apple and the continued doubling and tripling down of those bad business decisions. But at least the computer works. Vista is a nightmare. I am going to go to XP with new machines, but cannot down grade my current machines without first upgrading Vista and then paying for XP. I refuse to pay extortion to Microsoft both to upgrade Vista for the privilege of then paying again to downgrade, and I to pay for upgrading to 7. Vista is crap, doesn’t work, has compatibility issues with Microsoft’s own products, not to mention others and hardware and there is no way I will ever pay to upgrade a horribly defective operating system, so paying to upgrade to 7 is out of the question. I cannot believe the government and consumer groups are going to allow them to force people to pay to upgrade from their horribly defective release. That is corruption if you ask me. I am through with Microsoft and will be switching over to Apple soon enough. I will still have use for the XP machines though because the search software I am acquiring will run on XP only, cannot work on Vista, and even though future generations will work on 7 I will never find out.

-Gene

]]> By: Gareth Dickson http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/09/08/cafc-gives-microsoft-word-stay-and-i-hate-vista/id=5838/#comment-8140 Gareth Dickson Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:25:21 +0000 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/?p=5838#comment-8140 I posted last week (http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/08/21/cafc-grants-microsoft-expedited-patent-appeal-in-word-case/id=5135/#comment-8101) that I too had had a straightforward experience with Vista. Seriously, compatibility is better on Vista than on a Mac (I've used both), but your best course of action is to go back to XP until Windows 7 comes out. Also make sure to try your DVDs on a completely different machine - I've burnt DVDs which aren't recognized on the machine that burnt them but are recognized on other machines running different OSs! Go figure! I posted last week (http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/08/21/cafc-grants-microsoft-expedited-patent-appeal-in-word-case/id=5135/#comment-8101) that I too had had a straightforward experience with Vista. Seriously, compatibility is better on Vista than on a Mac (I’ve used both), but your best course of action is to go back to XP until Windows 7 comes out.

Also make sure to try your DVDs on a completely different machine – I’ve burnt DVDs which aren’t recognized on the machine that burnt them but are recognized on other machines running different OSs! Go figure!

]]> By: Gene Quinn http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/09/08/cafc-gives-microsoft-word-stay-and-i-hate-vista/id=5838/#comment-8137 Gene Quinn Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:36:27 +0000 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/?p=5838#comment-8137 Ron- In lieu of flowers please send a donation to the ASPCA in the name of "The IP Watchdog." LOL. Lucky for you! Stay away from Vista if you can at all costs! -Gene Ron-

In lieu of flowers please send a donation to the ASPCA in the name of “The IP Watchdog.” LOL.

Lucky for you! Stay away from Vista if you can at all costs!

-Gene

]]> By: Peter http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/09/08/cafc-gives-microsoft-word-stay-and-i-hate-vista/id=5838/#comment-8136 Peter Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:16:02 +0000 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/?p=5838#comment-8136 Gene, Most folks I know don't have problems with Vista, but I bought a laptop with Vista that never worked from day one (although in the spirit of full disclosure, it was at on sale for a substantial discount at CompUSA because it was "broken"). Turns out it wasn't broken, it just had Vista pre-installed. Once I put Windows 7 on it, it worked like a charm. Windows 7, so far, is as good as Vista is bad. I've upgraded some friends' computers with it and they couldn't be happier. -Pete P.S. Rick, I sympathize with you re: .NET. I am still using VB6 for application development. You'll be happy to know that WIndows 7 will support apps written in VB6 (it won't run the IDE, though). Gene,

Most folks I know don’t have problems with Vista, but I bought a laptop with Vista that never worked from day one (although in the spirit of full disclosure, it was at on sale for a substantial discount at CompUSA because it was “broken”). Turns out it wasn’t broken, it just had Vista pre-installed. Once I put Windows 7 on it, it worked like a charm.

Windows 7, so far, is as good as Vista is bad. I’ve upgraded some friends’ computers with it and they couldn’t be happier.

-Pete

P.S. Rick, I sympathize with you re: .NET. I am still using VB6 for application development. You’ll be happy to know that WIndows 7 will support apps written in VB6 (it won’t run the IDE, though).

]]> By: Nick Toth http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/09/08/cafc-gives-microsoft-word-stay-and-i-hate-vista/id=5838/#comment-8135 Nick Toth Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:04:23 +0000 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/?p=5838#comment-8135 I switched to Mac from XP a while back to avoid using Vista, and have been sending condolences to other people ever since. Apple gave me 90 days of free telephone support, which I used extensively during the first frustrating week or two when I was getting used to the Mac. For example, I searched for hours trying to figure out how to uninstall an application, only to find out that you just move it to trash. No "uninstall" required. One you get used to the ease of use of the Mac, you'll never go back. I switched to Mac from XP a while back to avoid using Vista, and have been sending condolences to other people ever since. Apple gave me 90 days of free telephone support, which I used extensively during the first frustrating week or two when I was getting used to the Mac. For example, I searched for hours trying to figure out how to uninstall an application, only to find out that you just move it to trash. No “uninstall” required. One you get used to the ease of use of the Mac, you’ll never go back.

]]> By: Ron Reardon http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/09/08/cafc-gives-microsoft-word-stay-and-i-hate-vista/id=5838/#comment-8134 Ron Reardon Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:48:41 +0000 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/?p=5838#comment-8134 Gene, You have my sympathy. I am still using XP on a several year old laptop that is running out of hard drive. I have heard too many horror stories about VISTA to change over. Where do I send flowers? :-) Ron Gene,

You have my sympathy. I am still using XP on a several year old laptop that is running out of hard drive. I have heard too many horror stories about VISTA to change over. Where do I send flowers? :-)

Ron

]]> By: Gene Quinn http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/09/08/cafc-gives-microsoft-word-stay-and-i-hate-vista/id=5838/#comment-8133 Gene Quinn Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:27:28 +0000 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/?p=5838#comment-8133 Tom- I don't know the answer to your question really, perhaps others can chime in. This case deals with Word infringing though, not another product infringing on Word. -Gene Tom-

I don’t know the answer to your question really, perhaps others can chime in. This case deals with Word infringing though, not another product infringing on Word.

-Gene

]]> By: Gene Quinn http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/09/08/cafc-gives-microsoft-word-stay-and-i-hate-vista/id=5838/#comment-8132 Gene Quinn Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:26:23 +0000 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/?p=5838#comment-8132 Ken- Another good idea. Thanks for the suggestion. -Gene Ken-

Another good idea. Thanks for the suggestion.

-Gene

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