Thread: (OT) Computer woes, longish and for the slightly more techie. (Ron - you can skip this ;-)
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Old November 1st 10, 12:30 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default (OT) Computer woes, longish and for the slightly more techie. (Ron - you can skip this ;-)
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After reading some reviews that it was much better than Vista I thought it
was probably time to upgrade from my longstanding and sometimes troublesome
XP. How disappointed I was. My first reaction is that it is less intuitive,
dumbed down

Like the weather forecasts? Welcome to the world of the iPhone, where
technology is reduced to the level of social networks and the lowest
common denominator.

and has actually lost features like a calendar and Outlook
Express.

Lost Outlook express? But that must be a step forward? Noooo, that can't
be right.

The Windows LiveMail I am using here is so cluttered and full of
stuff it's very unfriendly. This brings me to a question that has often been
asked and which I have previously taken little heed of in the past:-
What free email clients are any good?

To be perfectly frank, and it pains me to say this, the cloud is the
future I'm afraid. Having just gotten hold of a new Android phone,
typing in my gmail address and password, and being pleasantly surprised
to find my entire virtual social life instantly available to me, I can
certainly say there are great advantages to allowing anonymous corporate
conglomerates access to your most intimate moments.

That's not to say I'm not worried about it, but I've been worried about
it for a long time now.

Simple is good as long as it deals
with Newsgroups.

Well the technologically inept and those a little lacking in cerebral
matter can always use google groups ducks, but I have grown quite
accustomed to separating the two. I use gmail for my main mail account
now and the excellent microplanet gravity for newsgroups.

I'm afraid I have no recommendation for a pop3 email client. I use "the
bat", for legacy reasons, but it isn't free and I wouldn't recommend it
even if it was.

Now to catch up with the weather - did someone mention cold while I was away
;-)


Currently +3 in Moscow. That's warm....

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Alan LeHun
Microplanet Gravity - http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpgravity/files/
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