fleshweasel posted:

on the contrary, they let you use

carry on then posted:

pro

qirex posted:

let's not forget the external hd-dvd drive [MS spent another billion on "goodwill" supporting the hd-dvd platform] which had its own power brick

anthonypants posted:

no i'm pretty sure the main reason they didn't do blu-ray was because that's what the ps3 had

anthonypants posted:

how is this comparable to the hd-dvd peripheral that nobody bought. microsoft didn't design their console around hd-dvd and it needed more than 5V and that doesn't mean they were trying to be sega, it means they were being microsoft

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

*selects all available updates
*click install
*error: windows already installing updates, please try again
*wait
*try again
*no updates available

flakeloaf posted:

if only there were some standalone pack of updates that they could offer to vanilla installs

maybe as a part of some service

univbee posted:

time travel to the future where the install is complete so you know when it finishes, go back in time and adjust the progress bar change rate in consequence. easy!

wdarkk posted:

What was it? I tried googling it but just got a bunch of stuff about the disk fix it does when you screw up real bad.

PleasureKevin posted:

here's some more entries from help_i_have_to_use_windows_at_work.txt


After sending one message in Lync, it will add subsequent messages below (as expected). But the space between the first message and the last message is different than the space between the second message and the third message. Why?

Lync will always software mute you when you join a channel. Even if your Mic is muted too. So you are “double-muted” and can get confused about why no one can hear you even though you’ve unmated you mic.

In Lync, right-clicking a user in your user search results gives you an option to favourite them, but clicking the user in your conversation list does not. Clicking their details area in the convo will give you yet a third set of options, including start an IM conversation, even though they are already in one with you. You can expend the options and add the user to contacts, even though they are already a contact. There is yet another button to “View more options for interacting with this person”, but it does not have a favourite option either.

Lync determines whether you’re active or inactive based on mouse movement, but not keyboard activity. So you can be chatting with someone, in Lync, and be “inactive”.

I have 16BG of RAM and Lync can’t even scroll smoothly. The conversation with approx 60 lines (pretty short) will have to load the first previous messages as I scroll up, then load the recent messages as I scroll back down. They are momentarily invisible as I scroll, and the movement is jerky.

Sniep posted:

windows versions, counting new editions but not point releases

Win 3.0 - Bad
Win 95 - Good
Win 98 - Bad
Win 98 SE - Good
Win ME - Bad
Win XP - Good
Win Vista - Bad
Win 7 - Good
Win 8 - Bad

amirite?!?!?? haha

Sham bam bamina! posted:

also

THC posted:

i, too, love it when the onion repeats the same joke 18 times

univbee posted:

one thing i do miss is an im client that lets me use custom smilies (like importing the sa ones) in a way where it actually gets sent to the person i'm chatting with in a way where they don't have to have the same customizations. MSN messenger was awesome for that

SO DEMANDING posted:

as long as microsoft is in business, this will be relevant, and you are a good person for making it


we use lotus notes at work and it is poo poo poo poo poo poo, but sametime is shockingly decent. it functions more or less like a chat program from 2003 and that is absolutely fine. i wish more companies would understand this, sometimes you manage to nail down a featureset and you can stop tossing on stupid bullshit.

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Lysidas posted:

uninformed yospinion: seems like RIM had good stuff (better than anyone else at the time anyway) and always assumed they'd stay #1 without having to do anything with their stagnant technology, even after everybody else caught up and then started to actually innovate

microsoft is actively wrecking their own stuff, not just having other people outdo them

PleasureKevin posted:

also the sexism in having a mani-pedi appointment instead of a business meeting



did they actually remake the icons, but still not make them consistent? tell me those are the windows vista icons still. somehow that would be better.

Millstone posted:

is what i originally posted but he's talking about the one vista/7 has in the start menu that does local search

Shaggar posted:

actually it doesn't require deep integration, they just wanted to sell it as a separate product which means a separate sku for wmc and for windows that comes w/ wmc. they also had to create skus for the 3rd world that didn't come with any windows media products.

colbylol posted:

minecraft is poo poo you nerds lol

super fart shooter posted:

minecraft was in alpha when it first got popular so then they kicked it through "beta" and "release" so they could jack up the pricetag, even though it didn't pass any developmental milestiones and barely changed at all from being a janky unifinished pos