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ANNOUNCING The All-New Windows (&Microsoft) PING LIST! (vanity)
Self (vanity - announcement of a new ping list) ^ | March 30, 2015 | Dayglored

Posted on 03/30/2015 5:37:46 PM PDT by dayglored

OKAY! All you Windows users and admins and fanboys, Microsoft followers and folks, all you 90% of the computer users in the world...

After over 6 years of complaining that FreeRepublic doesn't have a Windows Ping List, I have finally decided that it's up to me to make one!
So if you want on the All-New Windows Ping List (or off, but ya gotta get on before you can get off), FReepMail me (dayglored) and I'll put ya on the list.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Hobbies; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: microsoft; newpinglist; windows; windowspinglist
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I'm hoping this list gets some traction so I'm going to ping a bunch of the people who have indicated interest in Windows, and/or Microsoft.

FULL DISCLOSURE

If you want to know my background, here's a section of my FR Profile page devoted to it. Or if you don't want to read that, here's the...

Executive Summary:

I've been doing computer software since 1970, hardware design since 1976, I've designed and built computers (hardware, software, entire systems) for spacecraft, industrial process control, commercial applications, and consumer products. I was a System Engineer most of my career, now I'm doing System Administration for a software outfit in upstate NY. Over the years I've made most of my money working on or with Microsoft software -- 8KBASIC and Xenix and MS-DOS and Windows, every release of Windows since 2.0! These days I work with every kind of computer and operating system, not just Windows -- all of 'em. :)

So you will find this Ping List to be pretty even-handed, at least insofar as I have any comments to make. I don't waste my time hating on any particular piece of software or hardware, that's just dumb. But I do have opinions, and I look forward to reading yours!

So I believe I'm qualified to pick up the reins of a Windows Ping List, and I invite y'all to get on board and let's see if we can make this turkey fly!!

Thanks and FRegards,
Dayglored

1 posted on 03/30/2015 5:37:46 PM PDT by dayglored
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To: ShadowAce; Swordmaker

You guys get first-ping honors! C’mon join me!


2 posted on 03/30/2015 5:38:34 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: dayglored

When is Windows 10 coming out?


3 posted on 03/30/2015 5:39:13 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (GO WISCONSIN BADGERS GO!)
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To: dayglored

Add me.


4 posted on 03/30/2015 5:39:29 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: dayglored

I’ll bite!


5 posted on 03/30/2015 5:40:25 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I like windows 10 and will be on us SOON


6 posted on 03/30/2015 5:40:31 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: dayglored

Get a Mac ;-)


7 posted on 03/30/2015 5:40:58 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: dayglored

get-ping


8 posted on 03/30/2015 5:41:50 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: johniegrad
Get a Mac ;-)

If you're willing to pay a price premium. And given CEO Tim Cook's current political stand, I don't know....

9 posted on 03/30/2015 5:42:31 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: RayChuang88

I was just teasing’.


10 posted on 03/30/2015 5:43:11 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: dayglored

Looking forward to Windows 3.1. Yoohoo!!!


11 posted on 03/30/2015 5:43:15 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: dayglored

ping a ding me.
Thanks.


12 posted on 03/30/2015 5:43:35 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer (MY COUNTRY WAS OF THEE!!!!)
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To: dennisw; VanDeKoik; for-q-clinton; Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro
> FR doesn’t have a Microsoft amen choirs, nor do its users here openly gush about their love for them with a continuous train of fawning articles and posts, unlike Apple has

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3273666/posts?page=107

Thank you VanDeKoik for today's inspiration to get off my butt after complaining for 6 years. I've been getting psyched for a couple weeks (ShadowAce and Swordmaker will attest to that) but your comment today was the one that put me over the top.

Now help me out. I'm completely serious about doing this list, and I would enjoy your help letting people know about it. Thanks!

13 posted on 03/30/2015 5:44:48 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: dayglored

Add me please.


14 posted on 03/30/2015 5:44:51 PM PDT by tje
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To: johniegrad
Get a Mac ;-) and install Windows on it.
15 posted on 03/30/2015 5:45:28 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: dayglored

on board


16 posted on 03/30/2015 5:45:35 PM PDT by granite (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left - Ecclest 10:2)
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To: dayglored

Yes please ;’)


17 posted on 03/30/2015 5:47:50 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: dayglored

I want to join the list. Do I have to log in first? Thank you.


18 posted on 03/30/2015 5:47:51 PM PDT by upchuck (The current Federal Governent is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
> When is Windows 10 coming out?

Not soon enough! I'm really looking forward to it. I've been playing with the Technical Preview for a few months and it looks great.

19 posted on 03/30/2015 5:48:10 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: dayglored

Add me, please!
I also have a Windows phone, so if you should mention the Lumia phone from time to time, that’d be great!!!

Thank you, all around!!!


20 posted on 03/30/2015 5:48:24 PM PDT by Radagast the Fool (At my signal, UNLEASH PALIN!!)
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