In reply to a post by broadband66:

The BBC R&D department is at the forefront of audio and visual technology.

Audio and Video perhaps, but computer-related matters, probably at the back!

In reply to a post by broadband66:

The BBC R&D department is at the forefront of audio and visual technology.

Says who? they did not do a very good job with Freeview or digital radio to be honest, both systems was out of date before we had them.

All the BBc can do sound wise is compress everything so much that is sounds rubbish.
If the BBC R&D department is at the forefront of audio and visual technology, then we are screwed

I thought the BBC R&D department was Birtched out existence some years ago?

No, the Beeb still has an R&D department, though I've no idea how good it is:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/index.shtml

Are you getting it mixed up with the Radiophonic Workshop? That was chopped ages ago.

>Lets hope microsoft do the sane thing and dont drop support for windows 7 soon.

14th Jan 2020.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/products/...

Thanks for the views.

For me I can't see the point of updating from 7 to 8.
I have a totally stable system and happy with the Start Menu.

If I used a touch-screen it would be different, but I dislike them, so unlikely to buy one in the foreseeable future.

In reply to a post by billford:

No, the Beeb still has an R&D department, though I've no idea how good it is:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/index.shtml

Are you getting it mixed up with the Radiophonic Workshop? That was chopped ages ago.

Now that used to be good.
I got a couple of record with sounds from them, that can be used for plays and stuff like that.

In reply to a post by DavidFinbarr:

>Lets hope microsoft do the sane thing and dont drop support for windows 7 soon.

14th Jan 2020.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/products/...

another 8 years or so, pretty good to be honest, by that time they may have seen sense and give people the choice to go back to the start menu in the next couple of versions of windows.

i thought the next version of windows was going to do everything online, seems not and I doubt that will happen for years.

Even XP got a couple of years and there are still loads of people that uses that.

In reply to a post by DavidFinbarr:

Thanks for the views.

For me I can't see the point of updating from 7 to 8.
I have a totally stable system and happy with the Start Menu.

If I used a touch-screen it would be different, but I dislike them, so unlikely to buy one in the foreseeable future.

Same here, i got a retail version of 7, so I can move it to different computers as I update.


Touch screen is fine on my phone, but I don't see the point of it on a desktop or a laptop to be honest and if I ever did decide to get a tablet, it would be Android based, not that I looking at getting one to be honest.


Phone wise i will stick with Android, one unit running Microsoft software is enough.

Saying that if I could get a phone to run pure linux I would think about it.

In reply to a post by DavidFinbarr:

>Lets hope microsoft do the sane thing and dont drop support for windows 7 soon.

14th Jan 2020.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/products/...

yeah microsoft have a good support policy there, much better than other operating systems.

XP on my VM is even still getting updates so i guess it qualifies for the extended support period.