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PC Makers Say Vista Is Not a Seller
TekkaDon writes "According to computer and component manufacturers, Vista is not the hotcake that they were hoping for. Take Acer's president, Gianfranco Lanci, who has just said that 'PC makers are really not counting on Vista to drive high demands for the industry.' Or Samsung Electronics, who now says that DRAM demand has not matched anyone's predictions based on Vista's now failed projections, something that is being echoed by the industry as a whole. This seem to agree with Ars Technica article on the 20 million Vista copies sold as a 'huge success' by Microsoft, which can be accounted for by the natural growth of PC sales over the years."
In other words, Bill - from the industry and end users to you - FUCK YOU!
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This "makes my day" - to quote that other icon of action movies!
By end of this year, Linux will have gained another couple percent market share - if not ten percent! All thanks to your stupid greed, Bill!
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Eat a dick, Bill!
Hey, Microsoft shills! Have a nice day!
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Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
"Most people buy computers for the applications they can run on them"
God i hope your a linux zealout, because so few linux zealots actually get this.
If MS would trim some of the fat(like the GUI) off it's OS it could have a much better server edition. Put a windows server edition on that old PC and see if it's very useful. You can get a lot more power from those older PCs with a slimmed down server install of Linux or one of the BSDs. Of course, this may require you to learn something. Heaven forbid anyone try to learn something in this day and age. That would be so unamerican.
Beer! It's what's for breakfast!
> You mean DirectX 10? Sure, DX10 could run on XP if MS wanted it to, but
> then nobody would need to buy Vista.
DirectX? I've heard of that.
Why would I need to buy DirectX - I've not used anything that needs DirectX for years.
Come to think of it, I see no need to buy Micro$oft Windows Vi$ta - the Windows box I have spends most of it's life turned off - I hardly ever use it any more.
If you want a good reliable system use *nix. Even Apple knows this. This is why RedHat is doing so very nicely.
And your post was so stereotypical jackass to begin with.... that's why I posted. You just put it in context exactly how I quoted you. You feel that you shouldn't have to learn anything. That's the common response from people like you. You say there is absolutely no reason for you to learn Linux. The parent post had a pretty good reason, since it was about resurrecting an old PC as a server. If you want to use Windows on an old PC, go right ahead.
The point to the post was that old PCs make good machines for Linux servers. If you are going to get some use out of an old PC by putting Linux on it, you should be willing to learn a little bit about Linux. This isn't just me being a stuck-up Linux user. I can do anything I want in Windows too, but I found a use for Linux and I was willing to learn how to use it. Just like I found a use for a car so I learned how to drive. I found that I loved music so I learned an instrument. When I was a child, I found that shitting in a diaper was at all comfortable, so I learned how to use the toilet.
If you feel you could benefit by putting Linux on your old PC and making it a server, then get ready to learn Linux. If not, put Windows on it or throw it away, and try to stay away from making insulting posts explaining why Linux is beneath you. There are many things that you have learned to do that others would see absolutely no reason to learn. Do they come to where you work and throw rocks at you while you are mowing the lawn?
Beer! It's what's for breakfast!