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Re: Please Unsubscribe me from Your Internet

Laurence — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:33:35 -0000

... different cursive =P

I learnt different cursive to my parents.

Re: The Adolescence of the Blogosphere

Laurence — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:03:46 -0000

Mate...

You nailed it with this article. I couldn't agree more with some of your points. You managed to be positive about the future of blogging without resorting to lamenting about the good old blogging days and the decline of the web etc etc... something I'm seeing a lot of lately..

I am pretty new to blogging myself, and for a while most of the websites in my FeedDemon where those 'a-listers'. However it didn't take long before I began to grow bored. I really didn't care about seeing half a dozen blog echoing the latest firefox news.

Anyways now I have discovered greater bloggers such as yourself, Louise Gray etc.

Re: I tried really I did but Gmail still sucks

Laurence — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:33:14 -0000

Hey good stuff... glad to see someone going against the flow! Haha, actually I agree, I really don't enjoy using Gmail much at all. The spam filtering is great, as are the services you can access with it, but the actual mail client I never use unless I have to.

To be honest I really like Windows Live Mail. I like the interface and it has all the features I need.

Re: Windows 7 Calculator

Laurence — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:42:10 -0000

Hmm... I would have thought Microsoft would have got the idea by now.

People arn't interested in a multitude of new features. They just want ease of use.

I don't use windows calculator because its so much easier to just push ctrl+space and type it into Launchy.

If you are wanting to anything more complicated then a simple addition or multiplication why would you be using windows calculator? It is easier to use a real one.

Re: Bill Gates reveals information about Windows 7

Laurence — Mon, 19 May 2008 07:50:37 -0000

@the author

You are embarrassing yourself with this site. Every time some new piece of Windows 7 info comes through my feed reader I know its going to pop up on here a day later.

Rather then simply being a robot and regurgitating whatever you "news" you see, why not give an actual opinion or something, contribute to the discussion don;t just mindlessly repeat.

Look at your above post, if you actually thought about what you where saying you would see how stupid it sounds. Look at this link to Paul Thurott's Windows Supersite blog post on the same piece of news:

http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/ar...

I don't want to flame, and I would never normally write something like this, but seriously. What is with

"Previous assumptions that Microsoft would indeed avoid a Vista 2 and make Windows 7 faster and resource friendly seem to come true"

Obvious times a thousand maybe?

Vista has been the biggest Windows upgrade since Windows 95 and Windows 7 is simply going to be a minor upgrade. Much the same as XP SP1 was for XP.

There is a huge range of capabilities and features in Vista, but developers and manufacturers are only now starting to come to grips with it. It takes up more resources... so what? it does a lot more too...

Stop treating this like a niche market cash-in blog and write some decent content.

Re: Bill Gates reveals information about Windows 7

Laurence — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:58:29 -0000

Yes I understand... what I'm saying is assess the so called "information" that you see as to what the actual validity of it is...

eg don't just automatically put up whatever fake window video is floating around the net... you can get just as good an article, probably even a longer article, debunking it as being fake rather then just saying, ohh kewl Windows 7 shots!

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Re: Bill Gates reveals information about Windows 7

Laurence — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:41:20 -0000

I think my comment still stands, 98 to XP is following through, as you mentioned, ME and 2000. XP to Vista is still the largest upgrade.

Almost everything in Vista has been rewritten from scratch to take better advantage of current and future hardware technology.

Vista is not the same as ME. Vista is the same as XP... when XP was initially released exactly the same uproar occurred... "XP is slow, XP is buggy, XP breaks things, 98 is more stable then XP etc etc.

It wasn't till SP2 came out that people became to enamored with XP. In fact SP1 could have been marketed as the next Windows operating system, it contained enough to be seen as such.

Windows 7 will be similar to the XPSP2 release. Building on Vista but improving and refining Vista including increasing stability and performance. By then too hardware manufacturers and developers may have begun to take advantage of the technology provided by Windows Vista.

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