Theory of Everything wrote:
> the masses don't care about the corporation, as long as its products are
> of value to them.
>
> We will see what windows7 has in store.. I think it will show how things
> are going to go...
>
> uphill for MS, or down the drain (the path that vista started)
Down the drain.
Alias
>
> "Alias" <> wrote in message
> news:gamqle$do8$...
>> Theory of Everything wrote:
>>>> As Linux grows in market share, they will be their with bells on.
>>> Vista's the best thing to ever happen to Linux and Apple.
>>>
>>> I agree however they (MS) have understood what a big blunder vista
>>> was and are planning to correct most of the problems with windows7.
>>
>> Sure, they care about their paying customers. Pull the other one, it
>> has bells on it.
>>
>>>
>>> If they do, then the ratio of win/other users will remain more or
>>> less the same.
>>
>> They won't.
>>
>>>
>>> It's a monopoly, either its broken down or it falls by its own...
>>
>> Since Ballmer took over and started treating the paying customers like
>> dirt, MS has been falling. After the oil and insurance companies, MS
>> it one of the most hated corporations in the world.
>>
>> Alias
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Alias" <> wrote in message
>>> news:gamedf$3qr$...
>>>> Theory of Everything wrote:
>>>>> I know....Linux is stable, fast and fantastic for network speeds....
>>>>>
>>>>> HOWEVER Ubuntu isnt compatible with the programs I use, and no one
>>>>> seems interested in investing money to port them.
>>>>
>>>> As Linux grows in market share, they will be their with bells on.
>>>> Vista's the best thing to ever happen to Linux and Apple.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That's the main problem of ubuntu and linux...
>>>>>
>>>>> The opensource versions of programs I use are pathetic....
>>>>
>>>> You only have one computer?
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course I could use a MAC that is unix, (BSD) ... Im thinking
>>>>> about getting a mac.
>>>>>
>>>>> Most of the very important apps I use are ported to MAC OSX or
>>>>> there are very good equivilents.
>>>>
>>>> HP is coming with their "Mac" soon it appears. My, the times they
>>>> are a-changing and all MS will have left are the Franks of the world.
>>>>
>>>> Alias
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Alias" <> wrote in message
>>>>> news:gamaud$9dg$...
>>>>>> Theory of Everything wrote:
>>>>>>> 2 partitions on the same disk means it has to read and write on 2
>>>>>>> DIFFERENT locations of the SAME disk at the SAME time...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> what this means is that the drives "head" that is on a metallic
>>>>>>> arm has to go to and forth several times per second
>>>>>>> in order to keep up with this.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Now I have seen that vista in general has very slow disk access
>>>>>>> time. I have seen this on all kinds of machines...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Furthermore you have the shadow copy of vista doing its crap in
>>>>>>> the background making copies of everything!!!!.. a nightmare!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> with modern sata II disks with 32 mb cache, the difference is not
>>>>>>> so noticeable but its there....
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Its noticable in cases just like you did, when dual booting.. XP
>>>>>>> on my 4 core is about 20% faster in general than Vista (dual boot)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And Ubuntu is faster than XP, much faster both in file transfer
>>>>>> and Internet speed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Alias
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "churin" <> wrote in message
>>>>>>> news:...
>>>>>>>> My PC is about 4 years old but running Vista Ultimate x86 SP1.
>>>>>>>> It comes with dual Opteron 244x2(1.8MHz), 4MB DDR400 and
>>>>>>>> SATA-150. I measured time to transfer 1048MB file between
>>>>>>>> partitions in a same physical drive(SATA-150). It took 38.91
>>>>>>>> seconds. Is this normal? I did the same measurement on WXP on
>>>>>>>> the same machine(dual-boot system), and it was 18.55 seconds.
>>>>>>>> Could anyone shed light on the matter of file transfer speed?
>>>>>>>
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