Windoze 8, And Fleamail.......

[Badger]

why should i keep paying for new windows software just to line the pockets of bill gates when my package i have now does everything i want and more!

 

[Steve3948]

As far as I am aware its no longer supported so things may start going wrong if new software is installed.

Its also so slooooooow compared to 7 & 8, and the use of memory is not efficient, my son would not change for ages but after a week of changing he realised how much quicker 7 was.

I paid £26 for W8 so compared to test software at £80-500 its nothing and gives a lot for value.

For me Win95 was probably the best in terms of advances. :innocent   

 

[kme]

If Bill Gates had been God, I wouldn`t have wanted to live on Earth V3.1.........

Just saying................

erm - on the subject of.

Does anyone remember the famous quote from Mr. Gates? 

" No-one will ever need more than 16KB of memory on their desktop"............Wasn`t THAT long ago, either

 

[philbas]

If Bill Gates had been God, I wouldn`t have wanted to live on Earth V3.1.........

Just saying................

erm - on the subject of.

Does anyone remember the famous quote from Mr. Gates? 

" No-one will ever need more than 16KB of memory on their desktop"............Wasn`t THAT long ago, either

To be fair at the time I was producing full accountancy system in less than that, but then they needed that just for the nice pretty graphics

 

[batty]

Badger - XP was and still is stable, however it's old and things get better, the Morris Minor still runs but that does not mean it's efficient. W7 & W8 are very stable, never had any issues with either.

No good living in the past, move on.

I use XP on this PC. I also have W7 on my other PC which is the one I do my accounts on. Now I have had problems with it with quickbooks in fact I ended up buying a support package as I couldn't open quickbooks and that was down to W7. This PC is around 5 years old and was actually an HP refurb. It has always run very well and I put that down to XP. 

 

[Bruspark]

Meanwhile ... Did KME ever get his mail working ...

 

[Steve3948]

I use XP on this PC. I also have W7 on my other PC which is the one I do my accounts on. Now I have had problems with it with quickbooks in fact I ended up buying a support package as I couldn't open quickbooks and that was down to W7. This PC is around 5 years old and was actually an HP refurb. It has always run very well and I put that down to XP. 

Batty - I also run Quickbooks Pro and have used it on all platforms, with 7 & 8 I found it had to run in administrator mode, right click icon, run as administrator.

I think the age of the PC/Laptop will dictate to some degree what OS you run on it.

 

[steptoe]

Batty - I also run Quickbooks Pro and have used it on all platforms, with 7 & 8 I found it had to run in administrator mode, right click icon, run as administrator.

I think the age of the PC/Laptop will dictate to some degree what OS you run on it.

yep, Id deffo agree with that in a big way,

also just what else you are doing too may affect it, even if you are not actually running the programm sometimes windoze will run it anyway and therefore gets sluggish,

also need to bear in mind minimum RAM requirements and what your PC [etc] can actually physically handle, I have an old PC that cant actually use more than 1G of RAM, even though it has 2 slots each capable of 1G each,  :C

 

[kme]

Meanwhile ... Did KME ever get his mail working ...

Thanks. No, Is the simple answer!!!!! headbang

 

[Bruspark]

I thought that might be the case  . .

If you need POP mail or ''other IMAP' mail there is not much you can do with the windows 8 metro mail a the moment.     

Unless you can use webmail inthe browser or already have Outlook or like some other mail programme Your best bet at the moment seems to be to download windows live essentials, http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-live/essentials-home  just select windows live mail if thats all you want and set that up to run as a desktop mail app.  It appears to work in W8 it's just MS aren't promoting it 

It's a bit of bodge but in time I cannot believe the windows metro app won't get POP mail and other providers added shortly as lots of people are moaning about it

HTH

 

[Sidewinder]

M$ won't care TBH IMHO.