Windows 7: Rumor - Microsoft to Release Windows Blue, the First Free Windows Ever

Well, every one of them has a job, as they don't earn anything from what they do and they still need to eat. It's just a hobby for them, they do it because they find it fun, not for money like the bulk of criminals do.



Which is why with Open Sourcing you can attract them (and the more common benign kinds) and harness their skills for near-free (as you need some kind of infrastructure for the thing to work).

I'm reminded of a 3D puzzle game called Foldit, that is actually a way to harness human gamers to do useful research in protein folding, and is going very well. It's something that happens anyway (the gamers could play something else and will still have fun), but it can be harnessed to do useful things.

If Microsoft wants to "crush" anyone, they'll have to find something better than W8 to do it with.

To be fair, Microsoft did manage to crush a lot of peoples' enthusiasm with Windows 8.

Win 8 couldn't crush a grape.

I don't know what Windows 8 can do

FInally a true comment!

It would have been nice to be included, but luckily, there's plenty of free and cheap software to add that choice...enough so that all the complaining about it is a waste of time and effort.

Something is fundamentally wrong with W8 if you need to buy software to make it look like Windows 7.
When I bought Windows 7 it worked great right out of the box, no face lift needed!

It would have been nice to have the option included, but you don't need to buy anything to make it look or act like Windows 7. The software is only for a Start Menu. Even then, you still can use a free alternative, or you can just use the Desktop as is.

Unlike Windows 7 which is an excellent system, W8 needs a facelift right out of the box, and it's designed for tablets, PCs were supported as an afterthought.

I bought a new computer with Windows 7 just before W8 launched for the express purpose of avoiding W8.
Since then I bought my wife an IPad Mini.
No W8.
Maybe W9, if Microsoft gets their head screwed back on straight.

Oh? If you don't do it for money, then it is OK to break and enter into private property? I understand that you don't think such distinctions as property are important, especially if it is intellectual property. However, it simply exposes the very low level of ethics you hold. I take it that you are ashamed to actually earn a living and to be able to pay for the things you need to live. You would much rather live off (steal) the products of other people than actually earn money to trade value for value!

As far as I am concerned, when you break and enter without my permission, I should have the right to blow you away without so much as batting an eye. The degree or lack of the protections I have in place are irrelevant. That it was MY property is sufficient reason for me. I acquired/created that property by expending MY life. You do not have a right to one nanosecond of MY life or any of my property exactly because it is MY LIFE that was the price I paid to acquire/create that property!