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Dear Microsoft Windows ...

Posted by timothy on from the oh-darling-how-could-you dept.

SpaceCanary writes "I recently read this open letter to Windows and I think it's pretty funny. The guy writes a letter to his OS as if he was breaking up with it. It's a bit strange, but finally more people are starting to see the light and moving away from Windows. The writer chronicles his relationship with the versions of Windows and finally is able to move on in the end."

8 of 617 comments (clear)

  1. Ummmmm. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slow news day?

  2. voted for deletion by clarkie.mg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    we should have a "voting for deletion" feature in /.

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  3. Re:funny ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How is this offtopic?

  4. Re:So what's new? by Skiron · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If I had MOD, I wouldn't mark as funny... but I don't anyway, and typos are not funny. That went out in 1996... (x c)

  5. Re:Article Text by siliconjunkie · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The other people who responded to you pretty much summed it up, but just so you're clear on this: What you did (posting the article so that people could read it) is totally appreciated, but it is not proper /. etiquette. Even though it is cool that you provided the article after it got slashdotted, there is no reason why your karma (as unimportant as it is) should be upped for doing so.

    Unfortunately, there are people with mod points who are as clueless as you to this generally agreed upon (and rightly so) issue of /. etiquette. Therefore, you should expect downmodding to commence over the next few minutes by mods with a little more experience who know how this works. You will most likely get modded down to -1, which will actually REDUCE your karma.

    The moral of the story here is: By all means, post the text of slashdotted stories, but do so as AC (you *do* know what posting AC is, right?) so no one questions the altruism of your actions. Like it or not, failure to do so will eventually erode the karma you may or may not cherish and you will wind up with a "karma whore" reputation you may or may not deserve.

    I hope this describes what you have experienced in a manner that is both polite and explanitory.

  6. Re:/.ed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ***
    Do follow the link the the parents sig, it is a link to the old goatc.ex guy!!!!
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  7. No, I'm New Here by New+Here · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, I'm New Here

  8. Re:Article Text by maxpublic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Although not nearly so old as people posting criticism as anonymous cowards, because they don't even have the balls to use a bloody pseudonym!

    Max

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