What Does it Mean Microsoft No Longer Supports VB?
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From: mayayana on 27 Jan 2010 17:23 > > They'll try to kill XP at the earliest possible opportunity. > > I think it would've been dead by now, if it weren't for the rise of > netbooks and the debacle that was Vista. > Yes. There's a perverse satisfaction in seeing how they shot themselves in the foot while trying to force more people to buy more PCs. > > Yesterday I saw an article detailing how people using > > Office 2003 might have a hard time with the hardware > > requirements for Office 2010. (Hardware requirements > > for an office suite!) > > I'd be curious to see that, if you can dredge it back up. > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/25/office_2010_2007_2003_upgrades/ There's a link there to the official MS page. The requirements for CPU and RAM are not extreme -- same as for 2007, but that's about double the requirements for 2003. And the disk space requirement is increased: "most standalone application disk-space requirements have gone up by 0.5 GB" So Word needs *an additional* 500 MB more space than it used to need. I guess it must be 1-2 GB already. I can't even conceive of what they might be installing with such bloat. I'm running Win98 with 1.6 GB used. That includes OpenOffice, Visual Studio 6, MSDN, a couple dozen smaller programs, Paint Shop Pro, several browsers, and a couple of SDKs (SAPI and AA.) Yet Microsoft needs more space for Word alone. But it could be worse, I guess. We could be Apple Seeds. Today I saw the quote of the year: Steve Jobs, describing web browsing with the new iPad, said "Seeing the whole page at once is phenomenal". He was comparing the iPad to a cellphone, as though nobody had ever seen the Web before on a computer with a screen bigger than half of a grilled cheese sandwich. :)
From: Karl E. Peterson on 27 Jan 2010 18:30 After serious thinking mayayana wrote : > But it could be worse, I guess. We could be Apple > Seeds. Today I saw the quote of the year: Steve Jobs, > describing web browsing with the new iPad, said "Seeing > the whole page at once is phenomenal". He was comparing > the iPad to a cellphone, as though nobody had ever seen > the Web before on a computer with a screen bigger than > half of a grilled cheese sandwich. :) LOL! That's pretty precious, alright... -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org
From: MM on 28 Jan 2010 04:59 On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:15:29 -0800, Karl E. Peterson <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote: >Office, afterall, >achieved "Good Enough" eight or ten years ago. Huh, I'm still using Word 97. When I'm not using OpenOffice. MM
From: MM on 28 Jan 2010 05:03 On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:15:29 -0800, Karl E. Peterson <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote: >The big difference is, cars *do* wear out. Nope. Even that statement is not necessarily true. Cars can be repaired. Most *every*thing can be repaired if it was designed right in the first place. Notwithstanding rust, which would be caused by bad garaging procedures, everything in a car can be repaired or, if capitalist "planned obsolescence" has used funny-headed screws, replaced as a module. Don't forget I was a fitter once and I know. MM
From: Phill W. on 28 Jan 2010 07:05
On 27/01/2010 20:15, Karl E. Peterson wrote: > I can almost understand that. Killing products to promote a new one is > about the only viable business strategy they have. Office, after all, > achieved "Good Enough" eight or ten years ago. > > But killing *data* - whoa! - that's a whole 'nother story!!! Can you > even *imagine* if they rendered DOC or XLS files unusable??? They're > outta business, that day. But Karl; it's *already happened* A /Service Pack/ to Office 2003 locked us all out of our Word 2.* files and a whole host of other types just because they were "insecure". http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9055138/Office_2003_SP3_blocks_old_file_formats http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938810/en-us It wasn't just that you couldn't /save/ these formats any more, which would have been palatable; you simply you couldn't /open/ them! Whole swathes of corporate assets wiped out at a stroke. Anyone else would have slammed with Damages charges; not so Our Friends in Redmond. Regards, Phill W. |