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Changelog 6.10.60


Helli

OK thanks. I'll leave my other machines at 6.10.58 then.

I'll leave 2 machines with 6.10.18. If it ain't broken, don't fix it.

I upgraded one to 6.10.56 some time ago just for fun, but I should have left it running 6.2.19. 6.10.56 didn't add anything I need or want.

This spewing out of new versions like there was no tomorrow, seems to be more for the developers to have something to do, than any other reasons. There are very few bug fixes, apart from bugs introduced when rushing to get some new unwanted feature that doesn't add anything useful at all really.

The older versions still produce valid results.

Next time I upgrade will be in 10 years or so, unless it's mandatory for some reason.

<opinion>
For the past several years the whole software industry has taken the approach of "Forget about the current user base. Lets add features to 'WOW' new people into using our software." Sadly most of them have also hired consultants from Playskool to do so.
</opinion>

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<opinion>
For the past several years the whole software industry has taken the approach of "Forget about the current user base. Lets add features to 'WOW' new people into using our software." Sadly most of them have also hired consultants from Playskool to do so.
</opinion>

Kinda made me think about the stat I heard last week in a story regarding IE9 and how it doesn't support XP, about how approx. 50% of the users on the web are using XP, and how glad Firefox was that they dropped supporting it. Not sure if that stat is true, but I've tried both Vista and 7 a bit, and at least at this point in time, I don't see a compelling reason to switch off of it. Nothing it doesn't do for me, don't need DX11, so I'm GTG. Which is pretty amazing, when you consider it, as it is now about 10 years old. Man, if you told MS back when it was released that a significant percentage of the Windows users 10 years from now would still be using XP, they would probably have laughed you out of the room. 10 years of the same OS? Preposterous!

Funny how things work out, huh? ;)

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XP !! One of my boinc only crunchers is still running 98se, Putrid
But that is only `just because i can` :¬)

<opinion>
For the past several years the whole software industry has taken the approach of "Forget about the current user base. Lets add features to 'WOW' new people into using our software." Sadly most of them have also hired consultants from Playskool to do so.
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Kinda made me think about the stat I heard last week in a story regarding IE9 and how it doesn't support XP, about how approx. 50% of the users on the web are using XP, and how glad Firefox was that they dropped supporting it. Not sure if that stat is true, but I've tried both Vista and 7 a bit, and at least at this point in time, I don't see a compelling reason to switch off of it. Nothing it doesn't do for me, don't need DX11, so I'm GTG. Which is pretty amazing, when you consider it, as it is now about 10 years old. Man, if you told MS back when it was released that a significant percentage of the Windows users 10 years from now would still be using XP, they would probably have laughed you out of the room. 10 years of the same OS? Preposterous!

Funny how things work out, huh? ;)

Oh boy, tell me about it! I much prefer XP to 7, but after experiencing some rather hefty bugs with XP 64bit (as I have 6gb of RAM, needed the 64bit OS), I was forced to switch to Windows 7. Don't get me wrong, it's not bad, I just miss the old features from XP that they got rid of, for some reason (like quicklaunch! :( this "pinning" things to the taskbar crap is.. crap)

Who knows, maybe I'm just overreacting because this is the first time in, quite literally 10 years, that I've 'upgraded' the OS on my main pc (service packs excluded, obviously :p)

Don't get me wrong, it's not bad, I just miss the old features from XP that they got rid of, for some reason (like quicklaunch! :( this "pinning" things to the taskbar crap is.. crap)

-> http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/888-quick-launch-enable-disable.html

yes, pinning in taskbar is really not my style, but pinning in startmenu is in some sort usefull for me.

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Oh boy, tell me about it! I much prefer XP to 7, but after experiencing some rather hefty bugs with XP 64bit (as I have 6gb of RAM, needed the 64bit OS), I was forced to switch to Windows 7. Don't get me wrong, it's not bad, I just miss the old features from XP that they got rid of, for some reason (like quicklaunch! :( this "pinning" things to the taskbar crap is.. crap)

Who knows, maybe I'm just overreacting because this is the first time in, quite literally 10 years, that I've 'upgraded' the OS on my main pc (service packs excluded, obviously :p)

Pinning to the taskbar is the same thing though. Just when you open it it doesn't add another box on your taskbar. It takes a bit of getting used to but I love it now, especially with the quicklist of recent documents or websites ect.

Each to his own I'm glad to see some changes because if we lived in a software world where nothing changed we would never see innovation and things would just get old. I say bring it!

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Traveling through space at ~67,000mph!

>a story regarding IE9 and how it doesn't support XP, about how approx. 50% of
>the users on the web are using XP, and how glad Firefox was that they dropped
>supporting it.

Yeah... but 90% of that 50% are in China, running bootlegged copies of XP that never get patched and mostly run IE6.

And as we all know 87.4% of all statistics are unsubstantiated.

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One disadvantage, Al, with Vista Business (minor, certainly, with respect to
SETI), is that I can no longer correspond, in German, as exactly as desired
(no umlauts, for instance), with friends in Germany and Prague; that was possible, with XP. I guess Microsoft thinks it can make a bundle, by requiring folks to buy top-line (I certainly can't afford it.). Perhaps, I can prevail with MS customer support people, and get an exception made, for just one foreign lang. added.

Anyone else found a way?

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What exactly are you saying here.

I can use Word and different letters in different languages are all there if I want to use them.

Or are you talking about an eMail client? Which one?

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I happened to have 2 Milkyway WUs when I got the new BOINC. Sometimes it shows BOTH running at the same time. Is that for real?

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Yes, it real. I have my cpu % set lower and one Milkyway WU shows that setting
in the tasks window. The other does not and the cpu was running at 100%.

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