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Business 2.0 Says 'Boycott Vista'
amyandjake writes "Business 2.0 has a story about Vista's delays, the amount of time wasted by Microsoft bringing Vista to market, and the fact that it doesn't seem to have any compelling features for upgrading. The last paragraph of the story says 'Boycott Vista. Keep your old Windows XP PC around. Don't buy a new one. That's the only way we have to let Microsoft know Vista is an overhyped, late, and pointless update to XP — a perfectly fine operating system.'" Relatedly, torrensmith writes "Paul Thurrott is at it again with his seemingly never-ending supply of information about Windows Vista. This time, he discusses the things he dislikes about the program, in the article The Dark Side of Windows Vista RC1."
they had me right until the point where they say "XP is a perfectly fine operating system".
you mispelled "downgrade" ;)
"Luck is my middle name," said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad." -- Terry Pratchett
I don't think "churning" is the quite the right word, maybe "lurching" would be a better description.
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Paul Thurrott:
Even calling this thing Windows Mail is an insult. The Windows name should only be added to first rate products.
But what would they call their operating system, then?
I would guess hundreds of thousands considering the number of huge mufflers and space wings I see glued onto primer gray Honda's..
"I was told Windows XP would be great, it's widely credited with being worse than Windows 98."
Apparently ackthpt thinks BSODs (blue screens of death) are a good thing. Seriously how can you consider yourself intelligent if you think XP is worse than Win98? Oh, nevermind I get it: you are a Mac user.
A perfectly fine operating system.
That is until IBM killed it.
"It took a bit of tweaking with permissions and ownerships but I finally got it working properly -- as I'm sure any geek with a bit of UNIX background (and groking the concept of file permission and ownership) would have been able to do the same."
It did take a while, because I kept trying to chmod the files. All I kept getting back was - 'chmod' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. So I tried reading the man pages on chmod. Guess what happened??
"But this one goes to 11!"
Yeah, the same Einsteins the pay for ring tones.
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That's because the Windows command for 'chmod' is 'del', and the equivalent of 'man chmod' is 'format c:'.
Have fun!
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But when they remove IE, they want every single web-related library removed, because "MICROSHAFT IS EVIL, DIE DIE DIE BILL GATES DIE!!!!! 31337z0r0rz DIEE!!!!"
Wow, that's a pretty good argument. I had no idea my point of view was so nuanced. Thanks for bringing this up, instead of creating a strawman or something, which you could have done. If more people communicated in such a dignified and respectful manner, we could accomplish so much more as a people.
It's nothing but crumpled porno and Ayn Rand.
No it won't.
You don't believe me? Ok, try this: 1) don't install grub. 2) don't install hotplug. 3) don't install module-init-tools. 4) don't install mount, mkfs, fsck. 5) don't install any 'init'.
Let's see your "just an OS kernel" do something now.
If "will keep on working" means sit there and do nothing, then I guess you are totally correct.