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Trying to do some work on a Windows system.Frustrating. Do people actually use this OS to get serious stuff done or is it mostly for gaming?
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I’m pretty sure 90% of windows user use just outlook, iexplorer and word.
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I've heard rumours of people actually doing development in Windows. Poor guys. I'm so happy I don't have to touch this normally :-)
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in my personal and work experience, yeah, that sums it up nicely.
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@macno Most Windows users don’t have Outlook. You have to buy the pro version of MSOffice to get it. They use IE, iTunes, Word, Excel.
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And Outlook Express! :-$
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@thelovebug Actually, most of Windows users I know use webmail only (except MSN users).
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Maybe outlook express?
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I work on Windows all day. The only applications I generally use are Google Chrome and PuTTY. For some things I have to use 32 bit IE though
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@lnxwalt To be honest, I’m not surprised. Some webmail systems are fantastically well-designed, and go well beyond t…
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@gomerx in my part time gig i only use windows. it is actually installed on an imac. mac hardware. windows software lol
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@thelovebug I haven’t seen any of those myself. I think it is more about ease of account setup than anything else.
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Mail clients, almost any of them, are faster and more featureful than webmail. Not necessarily easier to use, though.
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Whenever I work with the dark side of the force, I take the time to explain all the disadvantages to customers.
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Yes, we have a few Macs that dual boot Windows 7 and Mac OS. It works OK, although iMacs seem to fail more than any other hardware we have
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@gomerx k. yea my machine is dualbooted too.
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