10 Oct 09 Anti? Not Really, Just Not Pro Either!
It was recently said to me that I was surely anti-Apple as I didn’t have an iPod, a Mac or use iTunes.
Well, although I do have some computers running Windows, I also run Linux as well on others. Oh, and I don’t have any kind of Zune either or an XBox.
It’s not that I am against these products, but that I simply don’t need them.
I’ve gone down the Windows route for nearly a quarter century. It’s been a lousy OS much of the time, only really getting better when XP came along. Even so, it’s the only Microsoft product I have that I’ve paid for. No, I haven’t pirated the rest, I simply don’t use them. I find OpenOffice to be a fine product and it does everything I need.
I do less and less local document processing these days anyway with much more being cloud based. Same goes for email. I simply can’t justify $00′s of dollars on MS Office. I don’t have the bother of sync issues either.
As for the audio players, I have a perfectly good Blackberry Curve that provides me with reasonable audio and video playback, so why spend money on and carry about another device? It also links with my bluetooth car audio system.
So no, I’m not anti-Apple,or even Microsoft I just don’t need the products.
Oh, by the way, I didn’t write this blog post on an Apple, Microsoft or Linux system. Nope. The Blackberry scored again!
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Years ago when a buddy was “teaching” me how to use a computer, we were using DOS. I had the little template sitting above the keyboard and each key offered 3 different steps as you shifyed. Had to jot down lots of notes to myself.
I asked him about this new “windows” thingy I had heard about and he laughed and said it was just a fad. “Hard to do better than DOS, ” he concluded.
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I bought my first 'IBM-Compatible' PC back in 1986. It came with MS-DOS 3.3 and a set of half a dozen 3.5 floppies marked “Windows 1.0″ I installed them, and played with this pretty looking thing for a while. It had a notepad type orgram in it, and a paint program, and, as I recall, not much else. There were no other applications back then.
I got bored with it after a short while, and deleted it.
I upgraded a few times over the next few years, but it wasn't until some time in early 1994, when I finally installed Windows 3.1 on my computer. I was more than happy with DOS, and it was, for the time, quite fast and responsive on my 386-based machine with a huge 8MB RAM. Windows turned it into a relative slug, so much of the time, I stayed in DOS anyway.
I've always thought that those DOS days were of great benifit, as I've never been unable to use, or been intimidated by a command line prompt.
Years ago when a buddy was “teaching” me how to use a computer, we were using DOS. I had the little template sitting above the keyboard and each key offered 3 different steps as you shifyed. Had to jot down lots of notes to myself.
I asked him about this new “windows” thingy I had heard about and he laughed and said it was just a fad. “Hard to do better than DOS, ” he concluded.
I bought my first 'IBM-Compatible' PC back in 1986. It came with MS-DOS 3.3 and a set of half a dozen 3.5 floppies marked “Windows 1.0″ I installed them, and played with this pretty looking thing for a while. It had a notepad type orgram in it, and a paint program, and, as I recall, not much else. There were no other applications back then.
I got bored with it after a short while, and deleted it.
I upgraded a few times over the next few years, but it wasn't until some time in early 1994, when I finally installed Windows 3.1 on my computer. I was more than happy with DOS, and it was, for the time, quite fast and responsive on my 386-based machine with a huge 8MB RAM. Windows turned it into a relative slug, so much of the time, I stayed in DOS anyway.
I've always thought that those DOS days were of great benifit, as I've never been unable to use, or been intimidated by a command line prompt.