Posted on 10/29/2008 11:59:13 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Wasn't he some sort of Scottish royalty in the 15th century?
I hear ya, but a private company has to show a profit to survive, while the gubmint obviously does not. I guess MS is too busy counting their past billions and has lost their competitive edge. I hate the whole Mac snob thing, but they are killing MS with their ads and if MS continues to put out this crap, where else will PC users have to go?
FWIW, in my experience (personally built > 500 PCs, currently support network of ~150 clients and ~20 servers), WD's fail far less than any other brand.
I've replaced only one dead WD in the past 10 years; many more Seagates and Maxtors.
Microsoft has never, ever been the technologically superior product in any category. They have proven time and again that marketing, market share and integration trump technology and software quality.
There are a number of FReepers who've been in the business far longer than I who could tell you about technologically superior products losing out. Digital Equipment (DEC) comes readily to mind.
That is HILARIOUS!
[cough]Linux![/cough]
your not the only one
No. I know a few people who do.
I've never used Vista, so I can't say -- my work machine is XP (I hated the forced "upgrade" from Win2k but for the most part it worked out).
But Microsoft has made a lot of decisions over the years that I simply disagree with. Office '97 was about perfect for my usage patterns; in Office 2003 I am forever trying to enable/disable/work-around functionality, and I fear the situation gets worse with subsequent versions.
I agree. I have Office 2007 and I can’t even find the menus to format correctly. I have no idea what they were thinking. That is why I now use OpenOffice which is free and reads the Microsoft files.
Sometimes more is less. Many of the annoyances alleged about Vista can be turned off. I don’t see them as a big deal and since I have yet to have a single lockup on three computers in over a year I would say it is a very stable operating system.
All of this enthusiasm I see for Linux which is unusable except for computer geeks and for the supposedly superior Mac makes no sense to me. Linux is a throwback to the old DOS days and I don’t know what Mac does for twice the price that Vista and any PC can do. I don’t get it.
I would add that because of all of the hulabaloo about Vista worked to my advantage. I sold my old XP machines nearly four years old for what I paid for the brand new Dells that came equipped with all of the necessary software. About the only downside is stripping off the crapware but that is not that big a deal. That helps to cut down to cost of the computer. The only thing that anyone really needs is a dual core processor and 2 gb of ram and a reasonably sized hard drive and you’re good to go. Five minutes from unpacking the box to operation sounds pretty good to me. And I spend countless hours on the computers so I would surely have seen problems if they actually existed. I’ve owned computers back to 1985 so I know a thing or two about these things.
2008, I'd like to introduce you to RichardW. Richard, this is 2008, I don't believe you two have met. Take it easy on Richard, 2008, he appears to be coming off a bad relationship with 2001.
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