MicrowinX Poll

[Jeremy]

As long as OpenOffice uses Java, it will always be slow. M$ Office is fast, efficient and the standard program in many of today's businesses...

[Martijn]

Never knew OpenOffice uses Java, or are you talking about OpenOffice and not OpenOffice.org?

It's quite fast for me...

[suryad]

It does not use Java. You can disable JRE for it. Only the dbase part uses Java god knows why and that is not the reason why it has a slow startup time...the reason why it has a slow starupt time is because it has to load everything into memory which unlike in MS Office has parts already loaded in memory...and given that MS wrote XP and MS wrote Office, they would know their system internals better to speed up the loading process.

[Aegis]

Well is it really right to say that Office sucks, yet make excuses for why OpenOffice is inefficient?

[purg99]

Voted "Some From All Of The Above"

All I want from an mini XP system is to run on a 455hz machine, allow windows shares and azureus meaning also java.

[anoxan]

I voted for all of the above. though I'd say software and driver support are a little more important than registry cleanup. I pretty much do that on my own anyway

edit: sweet, third page starter lol

Edited December 24, 2005 by anoxan

[waywyrd]

Hi,

For me the ideal MicrowinX would be one that allowed me to surf the Internet on either dial-up or broadband, with as little need for critical updates as possible. I don't mind having to run a firewall, but find having to constantly update because of major "holes" in the operating system itself a "pain in the a*&!".

Waywyrd.

[gdogg]

hahah

when I am done

they'll be nothing left to patch

[waywyrd]

Hi,

In which case, the sooner the better. And a lot of people are going to be extremely grateful. Me for one.

At the moment I use a 98Lite, with further modifications to surf the Internet in "relative" safety.

Waywyrd

[Angelico_Payne]

I would just like to see it first :shy:

I hope that people do realize that this is supposed to stay small, if you want it all use Windows XP with everything enabled and installed :-|

[waywyrd]

If gdogg is as good as his word

when I am done they'll be nothing left to patch

then you should have the choice between a lean mean Internet/online Gaming O/S. That won't get infested with malware etc. or having the standard XP setup.

Something Microsoft could have done in the first place... instead of install everything whether you want it or not. Even Win98 gave you an... albeit limited... choice when it came to installation!

[Angelico_Payne]

If gdogg is as good as his word

when I am done they'll be nothing left to patch

then you should have the choice between a lean mean Internet/online Gaming O/S. That won't get infested with malware etc. or having the standard XP setup.

Something Microsoft could have done in the first place... instead of install everything whether you want it or not. Even Win98 gave you an... albeit limited... choice when it came to installation!

Ah, the good old days

Windows must be omnidirected, cause there is a lot of incompatabile junk software and hardware out there

+ it's allways good to destroy your present and potencial opposition regarding software market, cause if you have everything inside Windows, why would you look further - look how many people use IE cause they got it with Windows

Competition destroyed, step 2. raise prices...

[gdogg]

pools useless now, msfn decided to illegally possess my project, and shut down my thread.

due to aegis' claims, that microwinx is just a theft of mindows.

anyone remember mindows, that project that used taskmanager as a user interfact, used more memory then an nlite windows, and just sucked.

yah, that thing, well, microwinx, will only appear on. microwinx.com, there will be no forums for user support, and there will be no annoncement of release dates.