Author Topic: What would life be like without Windows? (Read 17759 times)

zridling · « **on:** January 28, 2010, 07:14 AM »

Randall Kennedy asks, What Would Life Be Like Without Windows?

What would life be like without Microsoft Windows? To listen to the free open source software crowd, the demise of Windows -- and by extension, Microsoft's hegemony over the PC universe -- would signal a kind of rebirth for information technology. Software would finally be free of the corporate shackles that have stifled innovation and dragged down the best and brightest among us.... Such thinking is naïve, at best. Rather than freeing IT, the demise of Microsoft would plunge the industry into an apocalyptic tailspin of biblical proportions.

y0himba · « **Reply #1 on:** January 28, 2010, 07:45 AM »

I don't think I could live without Windows. I really like looking outside and stuff while I am on my computer.

cranioscopical · « **Reply #2 on:** January 28, 2010, 09:24 AM »

No pane, no gain!

Stoic Joker · « **Reply #3 on:** January 28, 2010, 10:50 AM »

Do I detect a hint of Jalousie...

AndyM · « **Reply #4 on:** January 28, 2010, 12:25 PM »

This is clearly going to be a paneful discussion.

cranioscopical · « **Reply #5 on:** January 28, 2010, 01:48 PM »

Do I detect a hint of Jalousie...
-Stoic Joker (January 28, 2010, 10:50 AM)

Nice one, it can be your claim to frame.

Stoic Joker · « **Reply #6 on:** January 28, 2010, 02:39 PM »

Do I detect a hint of Jalousie...
-Stoic Joker (January 28, 2010, 10:50 AM)
Nice one, it can be your claim to frame.
-cranioscopical (January 28, 2010, 01:48 PM)

I vie for the glass ceiling, yet he's sill on top.

Target · « **Reply #7 on:** January 28, 2010, 04:47 PM »

yawn... one look and already I'm glazing over...

cranioscopical · « **Reply #8 on:** January 28, 2010, 05:20 PM »

I'm no great admirer of yours, more a fan light!

Tuxman · « **Reply #9 on:** January 28, 2010, 05:41 PM »

I actually don't like Windows. It's just that I have been using it for 14 years now. I could also go well with Linux, but I would miss a lot of things.
At least it is not by Apple.

MilesAhead · « **Reply #10 on:** January 28, 2010, 06:03 PM »

No pane, no gain!
-cranioscopical (January 28, 2010, 09:24 AM)

Esp. if it's Aero Glass.

Target · « **Reply #11 on:** January 28, 2010, 06:17 PM »

At least it is not by Apple.
-Tuxman (January 28, 2010, 05:41 PM)

take one tablet and call us in the morning...

I'm no great admirer of yours, more a fan light!
-cranioscopical (January 28, 2010, 05:20 PM)

I'm afraid I'm going to have to grille you for that...

cranioscopical · « **Reply #12 on:** January 28, 2010, 08:02 PM »

Esp. if it's Aero Glass.
-MilesAhead (January 28, 2010, 06:03 PM)

I hear you, plain and clear.

cranioscopical · « **Reply #13 on:** January 28, 2010, 08:03 PM »

I'm afraid I'm going to have to grille you for that...
-Target (January 28, 2010, 06:17 PM)

Uh, oh! It's curtains for me.

Target · « **Reply #14 on:** January 28, 2010, 08:24 PM »

I'm afraid I'm going to have to grille you for that...
-Target (January 28, 2010, 06:17 PM)
Uh, oh! It's curtains for me.
-cranioscopical (January 28, 2010, 08:03 PM)

draped in glory, as you wished...

Shades · « **Reply #15 on:** January 28, 2010, 11:06 PM »

...not so great for claustrofobically challenged?

...similar to living in (most) server rooms? Or submarine for that matter.

cranioscopical · « **Reply #16 on:** January 28, 2010, 11:56 PM »

draped in glory, as you wished...
-Target (January 28, 2010, 08:24 PM)

I'm flagging, must be my advanced years...

Target · « **Reply #17 on:** January 29, 2010, 12:16 AM »

draped in glory, as you wished...
-Target (January 28, 2010, 08:24 PM)
I'm flagging, must be my advanced years...
-cranioscopical (January 28, 2010, 11:56 PM)

none the less, we salute you...

MilesAhead · « **Reply #18 on:** January 29, 2010, 01:15 AM »

...not so great for claustrofobically challenged?

...similar to living in (most) server rooms? Or submarine for that matter.

-Shades (January 28, 2010, 11:06 PM)

Any porthole in a storm.

cranioscopical · « **Reply #19 on:** January 29, 2010, 10:48 AM »

none the less, we salute you...
-Target (January 29, 2010, 12:16 AM)

Of quartz you do.

MilesAhead · « **Reply #20 on:** January 29, 2010, 04:42 PM »

Esp. if it's Aero Glass.
-MilesAhead (January 28, 2010, 06:03 PM)
I hear you, plain and clear.
-cranioscopical (January 28, 2010, 08:02 PM)

Hmmmmmmm they should have called that speed indicator number Windex but it's already taken. They didn't want to be framed for trade mark infringement.

cranioscopical · « **Reply #21 on:** January 29, 2010, 05:37 PM »

Hmmmmmmm they should have called that speed indicator number Windex but it's already taken. They didn't want to be framed for trade mark infringement.
-MilesAhead (January 29, 2010, 04:42 PM)

There's lintel chance of that.

MilesAhead · « **Reply #22 on:** January 30, 2010, 02:02 AM »

There's lintel chance of that.

These puns are so bad I think I'll sash my wrists.

cranioscopical · « **Reply #23 on:** January 30, 2010, 08:28 AM »

These puns are so bad I think I'll sash my wrists.
-MilesAhead (January 30, 2010, 02:02 AM)

Apply some window dressing to the wound!

Darwin · « **Reply #24 on:** January 30, 2010, 10:16 AM »

There's lintel chance of that.
-cranioscopical (January 29, 2010, 05:37 PM)

I love it! It works on a couple of levels