Or they may just betired enough of microSoft that they buy an Apple or Linux system
Now I’d really like to see an Apple or Linux desktop take at least 25% of the market. They’ve been talking about this for the longest time... hasn’t happened yet.
Screw *nix; if I’m going to switch systems I think I’ll go w/ OpenVMS instead.
I built my first PC in 1982. I am now 65 years old and have never bought a factory built computer for myself.
I have loaded every MS OS since the earliest DOS systems and all the Windows OS’s except Vista (have replaced several of those with XP).
Started using Linux around 1994, an UMSDOS version of Slackware. Upgraded to Mandrake then Redhat in 1995 or 1996. Most recently have been using Xubuntu.
For quite a few years I had 2 PC’s on my desk (XP & Redhat Linux) and access into the AS400 database server in the office. Pulled lots of queries via flat files out of the AS400 and composed a 3000+ page catalog from it. That process was a total hack.
SO, no matter what Microsoft does, I probably will not be a purchaser of their latest OS.
I need some advice and some help.
I have an HP Laptop, 4 years old, running Vista.
Not long ago it crashed and won’t start.
Power up, and I can hear the drive spin and search for about 5 seconds, then it dies.
I don’t have a “boot disc” or the ability to F* out of the boot up.
Any thoughts on this would be greatly accepted.
I will never buy a Windows machine again.
I have an old Power Mac that has run nearly flawlessly for me. Unfortunately Apple no longer supports the OS and because it is a IBM mother board I can not upgrade the OS.
So I have told the wife that in the near future we will be getting a new Apple. Probably a Mac-Mini. I just can’t justify the cost of a Mac Pro