What's Your Vision of Technology's Future?
Posted by Edward N. Albro | Monday, August 28, 2006 1:14 PM PT
We're in the midst of preparing a special issue of
PC World for November on the future of technology and we'd like your input. Our editors and writers are researching stories on the future of PCs, the Web, entertainment, privacy, robots, cell phones and more. But we'd like to hear what breakthroughs you're most eagerly awaiting and what problems you think most need fixing.
The survey should only take about 5 or 10 minutes to complete. We'll include the information in our special issue in November and we'll report back right here on some of the most interesting results.
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My vision of technology's future is bound up in the close connection between the IT business and the visual arts - specifically moviemaking. Tech hits a wall at a good mousetrap, but words and images go on and on. We all know that hard drives get bigger and bigger and viruses ever more horrible, but it takes skill AND talent to make movies and novels better and better.
Actually MS have made it very clear that with Vista you can easily upgrade from any of the more limited versions to any of the more complete versions. I think they're actually the same disks with different codes so you don't even need to pick up or download anything, just pay online for an extended license.
the only thing you can't do I think, but I'm not sure, is upgrade straight form the x86 to the 64bit version.
I don't think that's an unreasonable price for your entire Operating System. Sure, all software (especially from major companies) is over-priced, and there are things Microsoft has done wrong, no question. But I don't think this is such a huge price, especially since you can still use earlier versions just fine. I have one pc with windows 98 and another with 2000, and they work, basically. The only reason the 98 one is not the best is that other, newer programs do not work as well in it or make it very slow, but otherwise it works fine and I don't have to worry as much about it getting spyware. I think you should also take into consideration how they have to do constant upgrades for security and other issues (for FREE) and that their software has to be compatible with almost every other software out there. That's pretty difficult. But of course there are other OS's out there, as you point out, that are cheaper, so you can use them...if you can find software that works with them..Suzan
I don't think that's an unreasonable price for your entire Operating System. Sure, all software (especially from major companies) is over-priced, and there are things Microsoft has done wrong, no question. But I don't think this is such a huge price, especially since you can still use earlier versions just fine. I have one pc with windows 98 and another with 2000, and they work, basically. The only reason the 98 one is not the best is that other, newer programs do not work as well in it or make it very slow, but otherwise it works fine and I don't have to worry as much about it getting spyware. I think you should also take into consideration how they have to do constant upgrades for security and other issues (for FREE) and that their software has to be compatible with almost every other software out there. That's pretty difficult. But of course there are other OS's out there, as you point out, that are cheaper, so you can use them...if you can find software that works with them..Suzan