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Dave Barry Does Windows
retrosteve writes: "Well, it's finally happened. Someone (Dave Barry) in the popular press has finally, explicitly and with a sense of humour, pointed out that Microsoft Windows doesn't get any more reliable or usable, no matter how many versions you buy."
Are you guys hard up or what? /. post something informative, and not so freaking lame.
This has got to be the stupidist waste of data space I have seen in a whiile. Dave Barry is NOT funny, and obviously is a complete moron when it comes to computers.....sheesh!!!!
Get w/it
"Look where we worship" -- Jim Morrison
Doesn't that have to be funny?
Funny:
Dilbert, Robot Monster, South Park, Jon Katz falling out of a window.
Not Funny:
Teen comedies, Jim Carrey, Recycled/Out-Of-Date 'Windows is unreliable' jokes, Dave Berry.
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Microturd says, "Best Windows Ever!"
Win2k is just as buggy and quirqy as anything else M$. I've been using it on a nice new Dell at work for a month. The machine is a reasonable 850MHz PIII. Nothing cutting edge there, you would think it would work. Supprise, it's got loads of new bugs on top of bizzar dummy features that impede function. Take Office XP. Word's default auto correction features would try the patience of a saint. M$ was nice enough to leave them all turned on by default and make Word the default editor for Outlook. It took me a day to learn how to turn it all off. MSIE has the world strangely devided between intranet, internet and local files. When you view one type the others dissapear from your history view. Pressing the back button accros this devide can crash your computer. This combined with the default OLE behavior, and my company's insistance that we use the propriatory .DOC communications protocal, makes for dreary research eXPeriences. I don't even want to talk about how well word docs sometimes open in the browser and sometimes don't. Let's just say that the rule set is not easy to see. Oh yeah, it still crashes when you try to use it. Oh yeah, those new features borke a slew of old work.
MS XP: eXPenditure, eXcuses, eXasPiration. Nothing new but what you call it.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
I'm using Win98 SE (forgot to mention that as well) and IE5 at this very moment. I can't remember the last time it crashed.
Hey, you are running a virus, Windows is just a graphical shell on a boot virus.
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This is the dumbest article Ive ever read. The guy sits there and talks about his wart, but neglects to mention all the new 'toys' added to windows xp to make it 'more friendly', and you know what, they work :)
Ive been using windows since version 3.1, I just recently installed windows xp and have only needed to reboot once, I havent crashed, and it covered every peice of hardware on my computer (ME seemed to like to delete my network card)
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