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Re: Stupid users (was Re: Is there a term for this?)
Subject:Re: Stupid users (was Re: Is there a term for this?) From:Phil Snow Leopard <philstokes03 -at- googlemail -dot- com> To:Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- riveraintech -dot- com>, "techwrl (techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com)" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:34:43 +0700
On 8 Feb 2012, at 23:47, Dan Goldstein wrote:
> Come back to Microsoft. You can still turn off Autosave in the apps, and
> the Registry still allows you to muck about and make risky changes.
Well, I have Win 7 running in a VM on my Mac out of forced necessity. I can't say I like it (but I'll also admit I'm woefully ignorant about how to use it — I am precisely the non-techie stupid user when it comes to Windows!). I've heard Win 8 is going to have some kind of similar autosave/versions features too, though I know even less about that, just something I've heard rumoured in the Mac communities.
I strongly suspect I'll be looking at Linux Mint or Ubuntu, maybe on a Toshiba, sometime at the back end of this year or early 2013, depending on how long I can eke some life out of my current Mac (which runs Snow, Lion and Win 7, whereas the new macs will only run Lion and Win :(, hence the need to make a change when I need new hardware).
