why do other companies complain when microsoft gives so many features in their operating systems?
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Microsoft is almost a monopoly and it tries to push its competitors out of the market by copying their ideas.  Their "features" are often inferior to the original idea, too.  Firefox is only one example.
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Well.I am in the favour of Microsoft.The thing that should be remembered is There are millions of people going to use their software with different platforms.Microsoft always comes with the suggestion of minimum hardware requirements to run such and such application.If it cant be met,its obvious that computer can crash.Also it depends on the application u use for the same.If a particular application needs 256 Mb of ram in minimum and if you dont have it,Noone can help you with it.
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I believe this is partly due to the fact that the requirements to run Vista are much, much higher than ever before. To actually run Vista necessitates high specs, and even needs a decent graphics card to run and a minimum of 1 gigabyte to manage, which effectively renders most older machines useless.\n\nEDIT: That's a good point you bring up. However, there definitely is an emphasis on "power" with Vista; Microsoft is focusing on how Vista looks and functions and how elaborate the graphic interface is, instead of explaining to customers the actual performance of the OS and its design.
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Beware of getting the "latest" in technology, especially when it comes to software. Generally, the first released version is alot like beta testing. In a beta test they give it to you mostly free because they want YOU to find out what's wrong with it before they ship it off.  I usually wait until the latest version of Windows has a service pack before upgrading. Delay acquisition!!
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The only advantage I can think of is if one of the OS does something the other can not.
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Not all the time. People expect software to be updated every year or so and companies will often add extra and unneeded 'features' in order to sell more and claim that it is improved. This is called 'bloatware'.
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LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!! I hear you on Microsoft creating programs that crash... Maybe they just need to give up on creating new IE's until there is an actual need for them... Or even new Windows OS...
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Yarnlady is correct. This is certainly not something that can be easily br adequately answered in a yahoo answers forum. \n\nBasically the problems boil down to investment in hardware, software and resources trained in implementing such as system. \n\nThe solutions at a very high level are start slowly, plan carefully obtain funding and get buy in from a project sponser down to the end users for the new system
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The root complaint had to do with the "bundling" of Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system. This was considered an unfair trade practice as now every Windows user got a copy of Internet Explorer; other browsers may not work properly on Windows; and other browsers may be difficult to download, making people less likely to use other browsers.  Computer manufacturers could not remove Internet Explorer from their basic computer images; for example, if the manufacturer wanted to take off IE and give the purchaser Netscape instead, that was not allowed. After a lot of court wrangling, Microsoft was ordered to break into two separate operating units; one would work only on making the Windows operating system while the other would work only on creating new software versions like a new Internet Explorer.  I believe they paid some stiff fines, too, but can't recall for sure.
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well, I think that's good. Since it would mean that Microsoft has finally realized not to release a post-Beta software as a released software. They finally realized that they should wait a bit minute than releasing a buggy software like XP.
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You can't upgrade Windows for free and Microsoft's built a lot of anti-piracy controls into their software now. Basically your computer contacts Microsoft's servers every so often to identify itself and it's a lot easier for them to spot people with invalid licenses. So unless you want to keep your computer disconnected from the Internet all the time, you should go the legal route and pay for the upgrade.
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It's not all about compatable applications.\nThere are alternatives to most windows applications for Linux.\nWith pressure others can get ported.\nUntill then there's always WINE.
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no productivity software is included in a OS, never. Microsoft also have to live of somewhat.
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There's a lot less coding involved--it is like a big wizard program/drag and drop.  However, there is still some moderate amount of programming needed.  Microsoft supports the program, meaning it will have some decent support and there is A LOT of video tutorials...and it is expensive.
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Cost\nFunctionality \nInteroperability \nRequires less system resources\nAvailable widely on other operating systems\nCurrently not prone to viruses\nMore control of your data
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Microsoft OS'es are too buggy. Apple is way better. Their hardware is also sexier, and they have the iPod.
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I have used Windows 98, ME & XP, I have also used Linux, Redhat, Mandrake, Knoppix and every release of Suse since 8.1.\nInitially I didn't like linux at all and removed it to go with XP. Up until I started dabbling with Linux I wasn't particularly computer savvy.\nSome of the reasons I strayed from Microsoft were:\nSecurity issues, constantly having to update security and pay because microsoft writes bad code or is slow to update it's security, (some time ago a security hole was found in the linux kernel and a similar hole in Windows, the linux hole was plugged in about an hour it took microsoft 6 months).\n\nPricing, if you want the full versions of all the microsoft programmes, OS, office suites etc it costs a hell of a lot of money. Linux is free or very cheap with a full range of software which is easy to install if it comes with the distro or distro specific, a bit more dificult if not but nothing insurmountable.\n\nLicencing is terrible with microsoft, they want to control everything you do or use even down to not accepting drivers that may make your hardware work, read their EULA.\n\nThere are a whole lot of other problems with windows which I won't bore you with, if something doesn't work you have vertually no chance of sorting it out, constant rebooting when you install software, if a programme crashes it stops the whole system, etc. etc.\n\nMost of the reason I didn't like linux at first was that it is different to windows and some of the hardware didn't work like I thought it should, but once I decided to persevere with it I ran a dual boot system with XP & Suse 8.2 and when suse 9.2 came out I installed it on my laptop & deleted microsoft, being dual boot on my desktop but I now never boot into windows at all. Linux does everything I want to do  and now I'm used to it I prefer the way it works to windows.\n\nIf you want to try Linux I would suggest suse 10, it will find all the onboard hardware you have, the only thing you may find is dificult is the winmodem, I bought a serial (not usb) modem (they're cheap) which works perfectly without using processor power, some makes of periferals don't work but all of the major manufacturers are supported it takes a minute to check which are but I have managed fine with all my stuff. One thing to remember is that linux works differently in some respects to windows but once you get used to it I have found it better, it is not difficult to use in fact in some respects it's easier than windows and definitely more controllable & secure (I don't use any anti virus software, only the default firewall). There are a lot of very helpfull people and web sites if you get into trouble they can get you out of pretty much any sort of linux problem.\n\nI have no intention to go back to using windows at all, mail me if you want to know more.