> Well, this strategy works so well with the Republican Party and McCain, I guess they thought "Why not?"
ROTFLMAO!
Posted on 02/08/2008 12:24:19 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Goodbye, Windows XP.
Microsoft, which released its latest operating system, Vista, last year, plans to stop selling Windows XP in stores and through its PC partners on June 30.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Reminds me of the old Ford engine that Ford stopped manufacturing because it wasn’t breaking down enough to be financially pragmatic (as in the cost of repairs). Same concept here I guess. Semi-stable product = semi-unstable profit.
What is even worse is a forced upgrade to IE7 with this month’s patches. :(
Make the jump to Mozilla Firefox and you’ll never look back.
> Well, this strategy works so well with the Republican Party and McCain, I guess they thought "Why not?"
ROTFLMAO!
True a computer with vista sells for half as much as as one with XP on ebay.
Try Linux or Mac
It will still be for sale. Heck, Windows 2000 is still for sale. You just won’t be able to get it pre-installed from Dell. That’s a benefit in my opinion.
remember the DeSoto? it was wonderful.
? Try and find software that runs on more than one version of Linux/Unix. Apple, please that is the same as the eccentric aunt coming over for tea. Those will never hold the market as long as there are x number of versions out there.
I am not a MS-bot by any means but they have the market via one version of their OS, so resistance is futile.
Die, corporate scum!
Been running Vista since March ‘07 - not one problem!
“Spalding: “I wanna cheeseburger, I wanna hot dog...”
Judge (Father): “Spalding! You’ll get nothing and like it!””
Love that movie. Once slight correction. Judge Smailes was Spalding’s grandfather, not father.
Look into Fedora 8. Most intuitive version of GNU/Linux I’ve used yet.
Fans? XP has FANS?
My brother used to use that line a lot on his son. Fortunately, the kid grew out of that stage where he wanted everything he saw.
Of my last 2 laptops: one has XP Pro, the other is Vista. My chief complaint with Vista (& the MS Office that goes with it) is that they completely changed the menus making it impossible to work with. Why’d they have to do this? I like the XP machine because the menus are close to my Win2K desktops, but I have to hunt for everything with Vista.
Truth be told, I’d be a lot further along the learning curve with Vista by now if I didn’t have (& prefer) the XP machine.
Fortunately (maybe unfortunately) I’m just old enough to remember it, but never had the pleasure of driving one. However, I do maintain one of those Ford engines in my 86 full sized Ford Bronco 4x4. A quart of oil every now and then along with changing it every three months and BBBWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! I’m hauling something other than donuts with a hole in the middle of it.
“Look into Fedora 8. Most intuitive version of GNU/Linux I’ve used yet.”
I like Fedora and Ubuntu, although I find it easier to customize things in Fedora. :)
At what age does that happen? 8^)
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