Internet Explorer 9.... Its here and its awesome !!!!!!!!!!

**slikrapid** · 22.09.10, 01:35

Originally Posted by desodorante

Microsoft keeps on releasing bulky OSes that are targeted at poor-skilled users that need a computer that can do everything on its own. Analogically, a car should drive itself to where I want to go because I believe that I should not be forced to learn how to drive

every OS should aspire to user friendliness without needlessly complicating the usage or imposing detailed knowledge as a requirement for superficial usage
btw. neither the car nor the computer operates/drives itself

Originally Posted by Sazzy

but I find it weird you claim to not even have the interest? Why is getting better things so bad?

some people don't have the interest to follow the externally stimulated/dictated consumerism in the name of some hyped progress
also, new things (or successors) are not necessarily better than old ones, especially if comparing only certain qualities of interest

Originally Posted by Sazzy

And you can easily use them for over 6 years before you even start noticing they are getting slow

actually, among others, it suffices to launch a few apps too many or a bulky one or a non-optimized one and you'll quickly notice how slow they become, regardless of their age
as for the durability, the manufacturers have some different numbers in mind, a lot lower ones i'm afraid

Originally Posted by Sazzy

and we can only be grateful for these

gratefulness towards (greedy) corporations? might be a bit of a stretch to suggest that