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        <title><![CDATA[Darn..]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I cant produce the right formula for that!.. You will not teach 1+1=2 every year to individuals. Also definitely does not need to buy any software to start the learning process... Training and resource.. You got the biggest library available for your people to learn, the net. You might be looking at black and white console of your servers interface, but to let you know, Linux is not all that. You might need to research more about linux, soon youll discover that there are more free product available for free and more flexible and better than those you mention.cheers. after random reading, I cant resist not to comment to this..]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[diesellayer@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:37:16 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-336645-3370927]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[&quot;Plus your bitching about the hardware problems your experiencing like a 4th grader&quot;your is possessiveyou're is the conjugation of &quot;you are&quot;The correct sentence structure would be &quot;Plus, you're bitching about the hardware problems you're experiencing like a 4th grader.&quot; Personally, I don't care which way you want to write it as I'm not generally that petty, but since you pulled out the petty, I felt you needed to understand the imperfection of your (possessive) own English, which I'm certain is your first language.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessie]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:42:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[really?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Really? Using a free product (like linux) costs you more than one that you have to pay for (Microsoft)? Sounds like you have to do some pretty creative accounting to come up with that one...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[systemsgod]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:07:21 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Genius]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[First of all, you come on a public forum and call someone and idiot because they have a differing opinion than you do...how rich is that? You must be super intelligent! Secondly, I have worked for many &quot;for profit&quot; organizations, all of which did not impede progress because they had a staff that could not figure out how to make an OS work in their infrastructure. How long have you been in this business as a desktop support tech? I have been in this business for over 20 years and have seen many budgets and many infrastructures. In all of my years, there was never a time that I blamed an OS for MY problems. Since moving out of the desktop arena, many years ago, I still have not blamed an OS or an infrastructure for anything. Failure is not an option. You should take a look in the mirror before you start calling others idiots. It sounds like you do not enjoy your job very much, genius!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[eguhlin@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:39:44 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Slightly Feminine...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Actually, I've found that if I switch it from the default Windows Aero color to the gray (or silver) color, that it isn't quite so.  As far as being as simple as a Mac, well... not quite so much, in my opinion; not without some additional bits of software.However, I do agree with the speed issue.  My current home Windows machine flies with 64bit Windows 7 (Pro).All I need to do is solve the issue of why it isn't talking to my network storage drive and I'm all set.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Slvrknght]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:11:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This has nothing to do with advances in technology. If you think I'm against foward steps, you're an idiot.A broken OS, with multiple failures, that breaks existing infrastucture, devices, and forces spending purely for no valid reason might be valid for you. I'm frankly amazed that you work for a not for profit outfit and have your views. Maybe you should work in a 'for profit' organisation, you might get a wake up call on your logic.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[darren.stewart@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 02:45:36 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[All true]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I also agree that for a new system, and if everything works right, then Win7 is the better choice. Besides being a better more up to date operating system, chances are much higher for driver updates and fixes.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Burg1]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:49:19 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Touch Screen available with Win95]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I had a Panasonic Tough-Book CF27 (P2)originally shipped with Win95 on a 6GB HDD,it had Touch Screen that worked with anything you touched the screen with, your fingers or a stylus etc. I used an old worn out tire pressure gauge for a stylus rather than my greasy fingers]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Who Am I Really]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:58:53 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Budget....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The vast majority of our user base is using HW that is 5-7 years old with 512M DRAM.We keep putting replacements into the budget but it seems to disappear....Who was it that said &quot;Nobody will ever need more than 640K&quot;.....?  I'd like to have a word with him now that he's retired.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[GDoC]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:10:16 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Good Move!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It seems the only reason some vendors update drivers or software is due to losing market share or mass negative publicity in reviews and blogs.It's time end users and IT professionals turn up the heat.  See my reply post &quot;It's time to light a fire under vendors' rear ends&quot; further down in this thread for more on this.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:55:23 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Time to light a fire under vendors' rear ends]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I understand the issues of older hardware and software not working with newer OS's.  I have had several systems I had to build with XP (in a strange way, this actually helps my business since it's hard to find off-the-shelf new PCs with XP Pro pre-loaded).Although hardware and software providers go to great lengths in their &quot;warranties&quot; to exclude OS and driver issues, clients and IT professionals as a whole need to start complaining and putting pressure on vendors who don't support Win 7 or Server 2008.If only a few people whine to the vendors' low level support flunkies it's useless.  If customers and IT decision makers complain to the President of the company (including noting they are not recommending the product to colleagues or other clients) and post their bad experiences on trade websites (in your case, medical software), there is a chance the vendor will lose sales and be publically shamed to the point they update their product to work with current OS's.  Customer reviews on sites such as Amazon and NewEgg greatly influence purchase decisions.  My idea just copies this and applies it to much larger investments.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:47:35 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[low spec machine]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Your Toughbooks can hold 1.5MB of RAM I believe. So your hardware upgrade cost is about $50 per machine to go from .5 to 1GB. The performance improvement from taking a basic Atom powered netbook from XP to 7 is large. On a one MB netbook I run SQL Server Express, our proprietary app, IE9, Crossloop (VNC remote support software) and Office. It is not as fast as my desktop but the update took it from semi-painful on XP to pleasantly usable on 7. Plus, for your road warriors, hibernation actually works well on 7 and re-connects wi-fi automatically and  realiably versus not re-establishing wi-fi about 90% of the time on XP.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mswift@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:46:21 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[development problems]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Microsoft starting changing some of the programming rules in Vista and tightened them more in 7. Microsoft issued the programming guidance years ago but did not enforce those rules until more recently. One of the biggies is writing to the registry. The problem was severe enough that Intuit finally re-wrote QuickBooks.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mswift@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:27:43 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[sorry, you are wrong]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Every XP machine I have upgraded performs better with Win7. Win7 is easily the best OS they have produced. We encourage people buying our application to go to 64 bit Win7. It is as simple as a Mac with more choice. Win7 is also slightly feminine, just like a Mac.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mswift@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:13:59 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Missed my point]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I perfectly understand that Mac and Linux (at least) prefer to use a numbering scheme based on the version of the software they release, but Windows stopped doing that with the Windows 3.x series.  since then they've named their operating systems with a different naming scheme.I'm not saying he's wrong, just that he was being petulant about it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Slvrknght]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:21:32 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Classic doesn't give you easy access to &quot;My Computer&quot; or &quot;My Documents&quot;.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It does on my installation.  I prefer a desktop shortcut, but pinning to the taskbar works equally well.edit: ...or quick launch bar in Windows XP and Windows 2000.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[john3347]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:21:05 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sorry, I have to point this out]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;dropping Allegories&quot; sounds like something most religions do on a daily basis.Sorry.   No offense meant.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Slvrknght]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:16:05 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Poll: After a year in the wild are you ready to deploy Windows 7?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[With Service Pack 3 supported until 2014?  Why bother.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[reisen55@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 07:17:45 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[UAC kills a sendkeys command in one of our scripts]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This script helps automate login, ouch, wtf....I am currently writing a command line based EXE that can take commands from the original script updator and do the same functions but within the compiled and safer environment.  This includes actions that require administrator access.  Frankly, I wish Vista was more popular so we could have been ready by Win7, as it is, management is dragging their heels.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Slayer_]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 06:42:54 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Perhaps on your part...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I do not work for the Federal Government, I work for a non-profit, so overstaffed is absolutely out of the question. You are twisting what I said. I support over 4500 people and even more machines than that. And if you bank on end users messing things up to keep you in a job, then obviously, you are not doing a very good job of educating your users. The computer industry is not what it used to be. Now, babys are coming from the womb with an iPhone in one hand and a mouse in the other. The baby boomers that require all of the help as well as &quot;mess things up,&quot; will eventually be gone. Users WILL eventually be as smart as you when it comes to technology. I would certainly hope you see that. Emerging technology and staying on the bleeding edge of it definitely plays a part of job security.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[eguhlin@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 05:46:25 -0700</pubDate>
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