Just don't forget some of us are still in [WinXP/IE6/Excel 2003/Visual Basic] land...for a variety of reasons - good,bad and imaginary.<br><br>s.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Neil Van Dyke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neil@neilvandyke.org">neil@neilvandyke.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Forgive me, but this could stand to be mentioned at least once a year, as a reminder... PC hardware tends to become more useful for most technical work if one erases Windows and installs GNU/Linux.<br>
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(Nowadays, with GNU/Linux being the technical and server platform, and most things being doable in a Web browser or on a phone, Windows is mostly useful for two purposes: as a program loader for FPS video games, and for secretaries who still like to email around .doc files that only work with the latest version of MS Word.)<br>
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Stephen Chang wrote at 03/09/2011 06:18 PM:<div class="im"><br>
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You can build on Windows with VC Express. You just cant use the build.bat script bc there's no devenv. If you use the vcbuild command line tool that comes with VC express, you get some errors.<br>
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