MIKE POWELL wrote to NBLADE <=-
The second was a 386 DX 40 with 1 MB RAM (which I immediately upgraded
to 4MB), a 120MB HD, 5.25 and 3.5 floppy drives, running MS-DOS 5.0. I very shortly after added Desqview to it. I don't remember if it had
VGA or SVGA, though. ;)
Norton Desktop was a nice one, too - I remember a couple of guys using that at work. IBM had promised a workplace shell for Windows, giving it the object-oriented UI of OS/2, but I never saw it in the wild.
Wow, DESQview. Now that is something I haven't heard in a long time.
Wow, DESQview. Now that is something I haven't heard in a long time. It was interesting times when that stuff was out. I remember using a Windows 3.1 with a PC Tools desktop replacement that had features that were way ahead of it's time (Virtual Desktops), the ability to have folders on the desktop, hell the ability to have a folder that had a filter of files in a directory (so you could point it to say c:\files with a filter of *.txt and only get text files), and a bunch of other things included. I still say that desktop was better than what showed up when Win95 came out, and it was running on
top of Windows 3.1 go figure.
Some companies already give employees the option to work 4 10-hour days or 5 8-hour days. If it's going to be 4 10-hour days, I'd rather things just be left as it is and give people the option. But if it's 5 8-hour days, I wouldn't mind that for more work-life balance.
I liked the UI of the Windows phone, CE felt too much like they wanted the Windows desktop OS on everything, but WP felt optimized for phones. I was surprised Microsoft didn't make WP work better in Microsoft corporate environments (or more accurately, break performance with every other platform) to make WP the choice for corporate clients.
Zune was a MS brand of portable media players, so is out of
context here. A better comparison would be Windows Phone, which
also flopped.
Yeah, I was trying to think of what that Microsoft phone was; I wasn't sure if it was Windows Phone or if Zune also applied to their line of phones.
Zune was a MS brand of portable media players, so is out of context
here. A better comparison would be Windows Phone, which also flopped.
Yeah, I was trying to think of what that Microsoft phone was; I wasn't
sure if it was Windows Phone or if Zune also applied to their line of
phones.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zune
Zune was a brand of digital media products and services that was marketed
You're tempting me to go back to Eudora on the BBS, I don't need HTML
email and prefer mbox formatted email. Last time I tried, there was an
issue with SMTP ports, I think. I'll need to try again.
Which is why I still keep a parallel port cable, in case I'm teleported
back in time to 1990. :)
Adept wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Which is how it should be, because, obviously, one should not trust a program with no updates in the last two decades to do well with
security.
Wow, DESQview. Now that is something I haven't heard in a long time. It was interesting times when that stuff was out. I remember using a Windows 3.1 with a PC Tools desktop replacement that had features that were way ahead of it's time (Virtual Desktops), the ability to have folders on the desktop, hell the ability to have a folder that had a filter of files in a directory (so you could point it to say c:\files with a filter of *.txt and only get text files), and a bunch of other things included. I still say that desktop was better than what showed up when Win95 came out, and it was running on top of Windows 3.1 go figure.
nblade wrote to MIKE POWELL <=-
Windows 3.1 with a PC Tools desktop replacement that had features that were way ahead of it's time (Virtual Desktops), the ability to have folders on the desktop, hell the ability to have a folder that had a filter of files in a directory (so you could point it to say c:\files
with a filter of *.txt and only get text files), and a bunch of other things included. I still say that desktop was better than what showed
up when Win95 came out, and it was running on top of Windows 3.1 go figure.
MIKE POWELL wrote to NBLADE <=-
8088-XT clone with 640k RAM, a 5.25 floppy, and a 20MB HD, running
MS-DOS 3.3. CGA color graphics.
That's cool. I didn't know PC Tools made a desktop replacement for
Windows 3.1.. When I used Windows 3.1, there were one or two desktop enhancements I remember using - I don't remember which it was, but I remember something where one of the features was displaying the time
in the top border of any application, which I thought was useful
(Windows 3.1 didn't have a bottom taskbar to show the time).
Tiny wrote to Nightfox <=-
I had kept the paper registration code for it but around 2006 I lost
a lot of things to black mold from a rental house I was in.
I feel as though I've been having way more issues with bugs than I used to, with Windows.
Though the truly awful things are, e.g., how a Microsoft account is now mandatory in a variety of situations, the inclusion of a variety of genAI and questionable online features, and the increasing suspicion that Microsoft wants me as a product, not a customer, regardless of how much I paid for the OS.
So I've been considering Linux more.
...with a lot more people using mobile devices these days, which tend to be
Android or iOS (Microsoft tried to get in the mobile game with their Zune,
for instance, which flopped).
Zune was a MS brand of portable media players, so is out of context here. A better comparison would be Windows Phone, which also flopped.
Adept wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Mind you, at some point I switched over to one I found on the Internet. But Eudora is still functional, and its mailboxes are in plain text, so much less a worry about things disappearing.
Though, realistically, probably best if it's in a list of outdated
things you'd never consider using. But, hey, maybe, just maybe,
there'll be a time when it's helpful.
Yeah, I was trying to think of what that Microsoft phone was; I wasn't sure if it was Windows Phone or if Zune also applied to their line of phones.
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