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Windows peaked at "Windows 98" and it has gotten worse with every "upgrade" since then. I switched to a mac a long time ago and I have never looked back!
So if you never looked back, how do you know? Methinks you and kent have formed a mutual admiration society.
Naw, just a mutual hatred for the crappy products Microsh-t makes.
I wonder, do the Microsoft haters with Macs use something other than Excel and Word? :D :D :D
Moe like a mindless hatred of what you're incapable of understanding.BTW -- despite your claims, that airline of yours had nothing but W7 machines in sight at the various airports and offices I've been visiting lately. Back on topic -- I bought a FACIT 'lectronic typewriter back in the day for $1700 because I couldn't afford a computer.
But it's NOT critical to have a reliable device anywhere else in the organization? You could be alone in a room and still not be the smart one.
You think making making a reservation for a customer is as critical as being airborne and needing a chart so as to not hit a mountain? No wonder you are an apologist for Microsh-t and have your head buried in the sand.
I am getting targeted by them! Windows Ten Update powers up my sleeping desktops' hard drive and power supply, but not the monitor or any indicator lights, and then after 3 or 4 minutes reverts back to normal sleep mode. Then about half an hour later, does it again. The noise of the motors and fans wake me up and I have to shut down the computer if I want to sleep undisturbed. I looked at the Update history and see several Windows 10 Upgrade failed messages. Go away! Cheeky! And wasting my bandwidth too!
From a corporate point of view it's all critical. A computer glitch anywhere in the network can affect passenger safety and air travel for everyone at a regional or global level. If the airline really felt the way you think, there wouldn't be a windows machine in their inventory. But as I said and anyone can easily verify, your airline runs on Microsoft. That's a fact.And no, I'm not an apologist for microsoft. I do however oppose mindless bullshit wherever I encounter it.
Love the discussion of old machines. My first computer programming classes were in 1967 using a remote input device to an IBM 1400 series. My first PC was a Heathkit H-89 with 64K or RAM initially running CP/M and later Z-DOS. Hacked BIOS so that the machine would read 2 single-sidded, single-density 5.25" floppy disc drives (180K each) and eventually the TM-100-2 drives which were double sidded-single density at 360K for a total of 720K of online storage.Great days running CP/M and Wordstar.Oh yes, my windows 10 upgrades went well on two of my machines, but I'm waiting for a consensus on the working of Adobe Creative Cloud before upgrading my primary machine.jdg
Get out much.http://news.delta.com/delta-equip-11000-pilots-microsoft-surface-2-tablet-devices
Yep, those are just devices that hold all the flight charts. Not flight critical. If they fail the plane won't crash. These days they are backup to the backup since the planes have glass cockpits with backups in the dash.I wonder how often the pilots even look at those when in flight (when not surfing the net, sending emails, checking schedules, etc).
Gotcha beat. 1962 and a Univac. (!) Gotran and Fortran..
That's about the same time as my dad. He graduated from UW in 66. After Vietnam he had Adm. Grace Hopper as his instructor. :D Retired after 40+ years as a COBOL programmer even though people kept staying COBOL was a dead language. He's not to impressed with today's programmers most whom he days don't even know how a computer works.-AJ
Maybe they give toys like iPads and Windows tablets to pilots. But take a look at the specifications of e.g. an iPad: https://www.apple.com/ipad-air-2/specs/ . does anybody think that those things are used for anything safety-related? No toy of this sort is in any way certified as navigational aid or so. They may use those pads a notebook (in the old sense). But a device that has a rated max. altitude of 10 000 ft? The Klemm 107s of my best friends fly above that!