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....let the Windows 7 Vapoware annoucements begin.
"Oh, it'll be so much leaner and flexible... it could be released as early
as next year!"
Give up Micro$haft -- you've played the same game one too many times.
--
RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"
* RonB peremptorily fired off this memo:
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> ...let the Windows 7 Vapoware annoucements begin.
>
> "Oh, it'll be so much leaner and flexible... it could be released as early
> as next year!"
>
> Give up Micro$haft -- you've played the same game one too many times.[/color]
They really blew that gambit with Vista.
However, some people and business's have fallen into the trap anyway.
--
Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid
for. So yes. -- Bill Gates, On his use of YouTube to watch videos. "Bill Gates
on ...the Competition" in The Wall Street Journal (19 June 2006); also quoted
in "Bill Gates' piracy confession" at ComputerWorld.com
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:59:58 -0500, RonB <ronb02noSPAM@gmail.com>
wrote:
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>...let the Windows 7 Vapoware annoucements begin.
>
>"Oh, it'll be so much leaner and flexible... it could be released as early
>as next year!"
>
>Give up Micro$haft -- you've played the same game one too many times.[/color]
Still, Windows ME from year 1999-2000 got more users than all Unix
combined since the beginning of times.... More recently, it took
Windows Vista a whole 3 weeks after first hitting the streets to
overtake Linux's 15 years of pathethic market share.
As a matter of fact, Vista is the best and fastes selling OS in human
history, spreading at about 2.5 million copies per week, continously
since it was launched.
But don't let those details disturb you, lInUx ruLEZ!!!
OK wrote:
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> Still, Windows ME from year 1999-2000 got more users than all Unix
> combined since the beginning of times....[/color]
So, in other words, it's crap, but Micro$haft was able to foist it on a lot
of people, via OEM licenses, anyway.
You WinTrolls have high standards. :~]
--
RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"
OK wrote:
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> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:59:58 -0500, RonB <ronb02noSPAM@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>[color=green]
>>...let the Windows 7 Vapoware annoucements begin.
>>
>>"Oh, it'll be so much leaner and flexible... it could be released as early
>>as next year!"
>>
>>Give up Micro$haft -- you've played the same game one too many times.[/color]
>
> Still, Windows ME from year 1999-2000 got more users than all Unix
> combined since the beginning of times.... More recently, it took
> Windows Vista a whole 3 weeks after first hitting the streets to
> overtake Linux's 15 years of pathethic market share.
>
> As a matter of fact, Vista is the best and fastes selling OS in human
> history, spreading at about 2.5 million copies per week, continously
> since it was launched.
>
> But don't let those details disturb you, lInUx ruLEZ!!![/color]
On the desktop....
--
Regards,
Gregory.
Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power
Gregory Shearman wrote:
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>> As a matter of fact, Vista is the best and fastes selling OS in human
>> history, spreading at about 2.5 million copies per week, continously
>> since it was launched.
>>
>> But don't let those details disturb you, lInUx ruLEZ!!![/color]
>
> On the desktop....[/color]
Hmmm... If everything is going so great with Vista ME, why is Gates trying
to move up the release of Windows "7"? Yeah, everything is hunky dory in
Micro$haft land.
--
RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"
* RonB peremptorily fired off this memo:
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> OK wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Still, Windows ME from year 1999-2000 got more users than all Unix
>> combined since the beginning of times....[/color]
>
> So, in other words, it's crap, but Micro$haft was able to foist it on a lot
> of people, via OEM licenses, anyway.
>
> You WinTrolls have high standards. :~][/color]
Next, that OK asshole will be arguing that ME would make a fine server.
--
Unfortunately, many programs are so big that there is no one individual who
really knows all the pieces, and so the amount of code sharing you get isn't
as great. Also, the opportunity to go back and really rewrite something
isn't quite as great, because there's always a new set of features that
you're adding on to the same program.
-- Bill Gates
* RonB peremptorily fired off this memo:
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> Gregory Shearman wrote:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>> As a matter of fact, Vista is the best and fastes selling OS in human
>>> history, spreading at about 2.5 million copies per week, continously
>>> since it was launched.
>>>
>>> But don't let those details disturb you, lInUx ruLEZ!!![/color]
>>
>> On the desktop....[/color]
>
> Hmmm... If everything is going so great with Vista ME, why is Gates trying
> to move up the release of Windows "7"? Yeah, everything is hunky dory in
> Micro$haft land.[/color]
OK is one of those guys who lies with facts. The problem is, he avoids
the facts that are inconvenient to his concept of Microsoft now and
forever totally dominating the desktop landscape.
--
I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was
providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt
like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it
took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
-- Bill Gates, 1989 speech on the history of the microcomputer industry.
Micoshaft Fraudster and Asstroturfer OK wrote on behalf of half wits from
Micoshaft Corporation:
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> Still, Windows ME from year 1999-2000 got more users than all Unix
> combined since the beginning of times.... More recently, it took
> Windows Vista a whole 3 weeks after first hitting the streets to
> overtake Linux's 15 years of pathethic market share.[/color]
All a complete lie.
Linux sells 3 million embedded Linuxes PER DAY!
It cannot be compared to anything windummies hope to win with.
If you want to advocate Linux as one of the most successful
OSes, then start from those figures instead of figures supplied
to you from micoshaft marketing department.
RonB wrote:[color=blue]
> ...let the Windows 7 Vapoware annoucements begin.
>
> "Oh, it'll be so much leaner and flexible... it could be released as early
> as next year!"[/color]
It seems likely that MS is writing off Vista---that they don't want
people switching to Vista and being disillusioned by it---that they want
to give it a quiet decline and death without admitting what a mistake it
was---that preventing the disillusionment is to prevent defections to
Mac and Linux, especially by large IT operations. All of that would
imply that MS will keep issuing new XP licenses until Windows 7 is
established.
: As a matter of fact, Vista is the best and fastes selling OS in human
: history, spreading at about 2.5 million copies per week, continously
: since it was launched.
Like a virus! Only a virus slows down your PC whereas Vista..... oh right.
"Matt" <matt@themattfella.xxxyyz.com> wrote in message
news:9fpMj.1541$NU2.1345@news01.roc.ny...
: RonB wrote:
: > ...let the Windows 7 Vapoware annoucements begin.
: >
: > "Oh, it'll be so much leaner and flexible... it could be released as
early
: > as next year!"
:
: It seems likely that MS is writing off Vista---that they don't want
: people switching to Vista and being disillusioned by it---that they want
: to give it a quiet decline and death without admitting what a mistake it
: was---that preventing the disillusionment is to prevent defections to
: Mac and Linux, especially by large IT operations. All of that would
: imply that MS will keep issuing new XP licenses until Windows 7 is
: established.
If a car had serious issues, they would recall it. Why don't they just take
Vista off the shelves?
Cork Soaker wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
>> As a matter of fact, Vista is the best and fastes selling OS in human
>> history, spreading at about 2.5 million copies per week, continously
>> since it was launched.[/color]
>
> Like a virus! Only a virus slows down your PC whereas Vista..... oh
> right.[/color]
"I upgraded to Vista along with this processor and, to tell you the truth,
Vista runs better than XP as far as I'm concerned. Computer starts up in
less than 15 seconds {including motherboard bios screen} and shuts off in
less than 6 seconds.) "
[url]http://www.amazon.com/review/product/B000VTQ0Z4/ref=sr_1_2_cm_cr_acr_img?%5Fencoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1[/url]
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:41:36 +0100, Cork Soaker <ISawYourMotherLast@Night.invalid> wrote:
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>"Matt" <matt@themattfella.xxxyyz.com> wrote in message
>news:9fpMj.1541$NU2.1345@news01.roc.ny...
>: RonB wrote:
>: > ...let the Windows 7 Vapoware annoucements begin.
>: >
>: > "Oh, it'll be so much leaner and flexible... it could be released as
>early
>: > as next year!"
>:
>: It seems likely that MS is writing off Vista---that they don't want
>: people switching to Vista and being disillusioned by it---that they want
>: to give it a quiet decline and death without admitting what a mistake it
>: was---that preventing the disillusionment is to prevent defections to
>: Mac and Linux, especially by large IT operations. All of that would
>: imply that MS will keep issuing new XP licenses until Windows 7 is
>: established.[/color]
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>If a car had serious issues, they would recall it. Why don't they just take
>Vista off the shelves?[/color]
Simple. MS hasn't the ability. It'll take more than a recall
to fix that thousand ton rolling ****pile.
* Cork Soaker peremptorily fired off this memo:
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> "Matt" <matt@themattfella.xxxyyz.com> wrote in message
>:
>: It seems likely that MS is writing off Vista---that they don't want
>: people switching to Vista and being disillusioned by it---that they want
>: to give it a quiet decline and death without admitting what a mistake it
>: was---that preventing the disillusionment is to prevent defections to
>: Mac and Linux, especially by large IT operations. All of that would
>: imply that MS will keep issuing new XP licenses until Windows 7 is
>: established.
>
> If a car had serious issues, they would recall it. Why don't they just take
> Vista off the shelves?[/color]
Because Microsoft (and many consumers, unfortunately) see themselves as
software Gods.
--
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't
lose.
-- Bill Gates
: > If a car had serious issues, they would recall it. Why don't they just
take
: > Vista off the shelves?
:
: Because Microsoft (and many consumers, unfortunately) see themselves as
: software Gods.
Oh yeah, there is that :-D
Micoshaft Fraudster and Asstroturfer DFS wrote on behalf of half wits from
Micoshaft Corporation:
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> "I upgraded to Vista along with this processor and, to tell you the truth,
> Vista runs better than XP as far as I'm concerned. Computer starts up in
> less than 15 seconds {including motherboard bios screen} and shuts off in
> less than 6 seconds.) "[/color]
You who laugh at poor people for being poor should have at least
the courtesy to point out the machine is an over zealous
Athlon 64 X2 5000+ and still not fast enough to compare with
Linux running splashtop (5 seconds) or Linux BIOS (1-2 seconds) used in
supercomputing clusters.
Matt wrote:
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> It seems likely that MS is writing off Vista---that they don't want
> people switching to Vista and being disillusioned by it---that they want
> to give it a quiet decline and death without admitting what a mistake it
> was---that preventing the disillusionment is to prevent defections to
> Mac and Linux, especially by large IT operations. Â*All of that would
> imply that MS will keep issuing new XP licenses until Windows 7 is
> established.[/color]
Yep. Any time now we'll be releasing a version Windows that actually works.
Honest. The old vaporware game.
--
RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"
Cork Soaker wrote:
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> If a car had serious issues, they would recall it. Â*Why don't they just
> take Vista off the shelves?[/color]
I think they've gotten a lot of them, that were on the retail shelves, back
already. The real question is, why don't they stop foisting it on retail
customers via OEM versions?
--
RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"
"RonB" <ronb02noSPAM@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:A8hMj.107$%h5.65@newsfe06.lga...[color=blue]
> OK wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Still, Windows ME from year 1999-2000 got more users than all Unix
>> combined since the beginning of times....[/color]
>
> So, in other words, it's crap, but Micro$haft was able to foist it on a
> lot
> of people, via OEM licenses, anyway.
>[/color]
You keep trying to find "other words" and continue to fail. It must be
frustrating.
What he is saying is that Windows ME which was pretty much identical to
Win98SE was in daily use by more people than have ever used Unix. I think
that he was just trying to illustrate that Unix (and its Linux clone) is not
very well known to the general public and is not likely to change much since
there is no effective effort being made to evangelize it to the regular
people.