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[quote who="LightStar" reply="5" id="3321400"] Quoting petrossa, reply 3You misunderstood me. I don't use W8 i use W7 and am not planning to use W8. Since evidently your company needs to focus on w8 enhancements i have no more use for my OD subscription is what i meant. So you're saying you don't want to keep your products up to date then? [/quote] Every OD and cursorfx and objectdock works perfectly. They are 'done' imho. I can't see what could

Reply to Brad Wardell’s blog page in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

You misunderstood me. I don't use W8 i use W7 and am not planning to use W8. Since evidently your company needs to focus on w8 enhancements i have no more use for my OD subscription is what i meant. But it was a real pleasure doing business, and the old OD will serve me for a good while yet. In fact i think it'll outlast my lifetime of computerusage, barring a flash of common sense in the world of touchie feely computing.

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[quote who="Jafo" reply="236" id="3318729"] Quoting Roloccolor, reply 235The thing with the mobile phone Jafo i dont have a new smartphone never had i have seen the desktop or the screen of some modern phones sure they have a similar look but whats so bad about it? Not having/using one probably says it all... What they have is a [comparative] small screen interface where a person's fingers are the limiting factor on what you can do with them. Multi apps on one screen

Reply to Brad Wardell’s blog page in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Due to Windows 8 unfortunately i have no further interest in Stardock's newer products but since i have been using your products 1995 i'll for sure follow your blog with interest. Who knows what the future might bring?

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[quote who="kona0197" reply="239" id="3318783"] Quoting Jafo, reply 233Oh, and Opera 10.1 stop trying to tell me how to spell 'colour'. That's probably happening because color is spelled without a "u". [/quote] tomato tomatoe. The americans to piss off the british after the independence changed a few words, such as colour (UK) to color (US)

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[quote who="Jafo" reply="225" id="3318486"] Quoting Jafo, reply 203I just installed 98 ....to check out the old AV proggies...a round-about way of helping Harpo... There'll be little luck with InDefense or Achilles Shield .....they're trialware...with no hope of reg'ing ....so 45 days is all you get. Back in the day I was licensed direct....being that I was testing it....so I don't even have an old reg.[/quote] Won't Timestopper work?

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There is no essential difference between 7 + 8 beneath the UI. Code cleaned up a bit, tweak here, there. Added some stuff that 3rd party progs have been doing for ages and better. If you really are silly enough you can use a millisecond timer and whee 8 is faster. So if you like using, as the Hat said, a phone UI for your desktop computer 8 is fine, if you don't you only add the hassle of getting rid of the only thing that's actually new, the UI. As following the lemmi

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[quote who="Roloccolor" reply="158" id="3317017"] Quoting petrossa, reply 133A support guy? "did you plug it in" types? first-level just means he actually knows what a computer looks like on the inside and isn't reading from a computerscreen standardized questions. I rather go by common sense, and that is that MS has completely lost it due to never having to really compete on a level playing field before. Ok so if i have understood that right you would let someo

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[quote who="the_Monk" reply="150" id="3316898"] It being the choices of the greater 'connected world' influencing their future tech plans, I don't believe it matters who or what is required to bend. The 'world' wants "integration and commonality".......one way or another the world is [going to be] getting what it wants. Again, one can't exactly blame MS for changing with the world..... [/quote] the '

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A support guy? "did you plug it in" types? first-level just means he actually knows what a computer looks like on the inside and isn't reading from a computerscreen standardized questions. I rather go by common sense, and that is that MS has completely lost it due to never having to really compete on a level playing field before.

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My response to a renewal notice for Object Desktop: Dear stardock, My first contact with your firm was when i bought items for OS/2, one can say I am one of your oldest customers. Unfortunately we are now in the situation where Microsoft’s visions (or lack thereof) produced the current monstrosity Windows 8. Worse is yet to come, as it’s my firm conviction Microsoft will want to implement in the not too far future a closed Apple like system where they control

Activating OD software after experation of subscription in Stardock Software Stardock Forums

It is a simple enough question, one would think: can i still (re)activate my downloaded OD applications after my OD subscription expires. Evidently i'll just have to wait and see since a support ticket for that question remains open for weeks with any answer given EXCEPT the answer to my question. Have been using Stardocks products since OS/2 but since i'm not migrating to Windows 8 any further subscription is pretty futile. It is saddening to note how an old and loyal client

Reply to Activation problem in ObjectDock WinCustomize Forums

Don't expect an answer within 5 workdays. That's about the norm.

Reply to So now what? in Business WinCustomize Forums

when i reached that point in my life, i thought: do i want to be rich or do i want to live my life. I decided the latter, sold my business, took out a pension with the proceeds which gave me moderate means for the rest of my life. Been happy ever since, best decision i ever made.

Reply to Patch Tuesday… what’s there? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

My pc went into permanent 'don't touch' mode, but after hard reboot it installed the files anyway. Not bad.

Reply to Anyone Running The New UEFI Bios? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

You can only order from Newegg delivery in US i believe. At last, last time i checked.

Reply to Who the hell signed off Windows 8 at Microsoft?? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

When one looks at the world in general lobotomies seem to be quite often performed. [e digicons];)[/e]

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[quote who="Savyg" reply="395" id="3303929"] Quoting moshi, reply 395a government agency is not a corporation. Technically true but they receive money to do a job, just like corporations.[/quote] Without the need to make a profit. Big difference. What's more then technically true they were just bulldozered by MS into win8. They made them a deal you can't refuse. And that's how it'll be for all other enterprises/agencies who run on windows

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[quote who="kona0197" reply="29" id="3304171"]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116986 Windows 7 isn't that hard to find. Just have to know where to look. Hey look at that even Jafo called Windows 8 junk.[/quote] Yeeah, we're making progress. Let's keep pounding more sense into them [e digicons]}:)[/e]

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[quote who="Savyg" reply="390" id="3303891"] Plus the DoD deal just now...proving that all those people who said corporations will never go for it are idiots.[/quote] Yeah, big 'corporation' the DoD. Also known for it's business acumen and the need to pinch every penny tot urn a profit. Also known for their 20.000$ hammers. How to spend your money wisely is their motto [e digicons]:rofl:[/e] [e digicons]:rofl:[/e] </

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[quote who="Savyg" reply="18" id="3303626"] You mean the free options like disabling Secure Boot aren't good enough for you? Fantastic, I'll write that down next time I'm in the mood to do something stupid.[/quote] Buy a dell laptop and say that again.

Reply to Who the hell signed off Windows 8 at Microsoft?? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="moshi" reply="365" id="3303486"] Quoting Savyg, reply 364 With regards to WinRT at least, of course it's going to replace Win32 (not sunset it, but replace it for the majority of development.) more likely developers will just ignore it, just as they ignored MS Silverlight (anybody remembers that?), if Microsoft does not stop legacy app support. it's kinda amusing though most of the MS fans here post Windows 8 is great, but on the other hand

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[quote who="Savyg" reply="13" id="3303481"] Quoting petrossa, reply 12Well, as long as you can disable it on your mobo it can do no harm. But if you want to for example double boot linux and windows you are in trouble. Best stay away from it, it gives MS way too much control over YOUR computer. Yes, lets not secure our computers at all because someone might be inconvenienced. Stay away from it if you're a Linux type? Sure, if you can't use the already

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We are not talking a year or 2 here. It's a long term vision. But it's 100% certain because it makes perfect sense. That is how a well designed cashcow should work. Apple became very rich by it. This open system is not in MS's interest now that the desktop monopoly is caving in. Ms is in it for the money, not to be nice and give everyone an OS practically free of charge. So if it can't come in one way it has to be another way. Simple business sense. And the only

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WinRT is Replacing Win32 One of the confusing bits about WinRT is, well, everything. But after conferring with others and studying Microsoft's documentation, I can make the following general statement: WinRT (the new Windows Run Time) is not a replacement for Silverlight or .NET, it's a replacement for Win32. And that means that it's the new native runtime for Windows, and not a managed code layer that sits higher on the stack. And that means further than the layers tha