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Old 12-13-2004, 09:10 PM   #14
LennonCook
Jack Burton
 

Join Date: November 10, 2001
Location: Bathurst & Orange, in constant flux
Age: 38
Posts: 5,452
Quote:
Originally posted by SilentThief:
Mebbe I should pay more attention to what goodies windows has instead of just bashing on windows... hmmmm.
"Goodies"? A mundane movie editor, a crappy email client, a bearable IM client, a browser wannabe (that can't handle PNG files or non-extremely-basic CSS), two very basic text editors, an even more basic word processor, a decent audio/movie viewer (*if* you can find the right codecs; and it doesn't have any OGG codecs AFAIK), an alright image viewer (which again has problems with PNGs), an extremely crappy picture editor, a hopeless firewall, two rudamentary FTP clients (ok, ftp is an OK program; WinExplorer FTP isn't), a Sun JAVA clone that saw MS in court, a popup message service noone much uses, at least two constantly running web servers, a realy poor archiving utility, a really annoying text-to-speach engine ("Dialing dot dot dot Connected to remote server period"), a fairly basic scientific calculator, a seemingly pointless magnifier, some minor networking capabilities, a replacement for the keyboard 90% of computers won't boot without, an mundane tool for automagic updates, a disk space free-er that rarely clears more than a few MB, capabilities for mid-90's CD burning, a Program Compatibility utility that is only needed because of MS's delay in moving to a multi-user OS, a fancy method of copying one single folder onto another media, a disk defragmenter that barely works, a "registry" so unstable and inaccesable that it requires another utility to back it up, a hard to use task scheduler, some very frustrating games, and about a million ways for other things to be installed (and have unrestricted access to potentially sensitive data) without your permission or knowledge.
I think I'll stick with bashing on it. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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