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Is Windows Vista in Trouble?
Ken Erfourth writes "The Inquirer.net is running a story about what they consider two powerful indications that Vista is failing in the marketplace. One, Dell has reintroduced PCs running Windows XP on its website due to customer demand. Two, Microsoft is conducting a worldwide firesale on a bundle of Microsoft Office 2007/WindowsXP Starter Edition. According to Inquirer.net, at least, these are signs of serious problems selling Vista. Are we seeing the stumbling of the Microsoft Juggernaught with the slow adoption of Windows Vista?"
Dell would release PCs running XP without all the other crap it might be worth buying one. Maybe...
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deeply or not at all."
Don't forget that Michael Dell installed Ubuntu on 1 out of 23 of his personal laptops!
They weren't slipping their release date.
They were just waiting for hardware performance to catch up.
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
My friends, this is but another clever marketing strategy for M$ to sell more copies of Windows XP!
Because Aqua is the coolest thing out there...oh wait!
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Damn lamemess filter
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
but, but, under specs it says Vista is
"Most secure Windows® ever"
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
Microsoft is in control. All they have to do is to discontinue XP OEM licensing, or substantially raise the price. You'll get Vista with your new PC and you'll like it. If you don't like it, See Figure One.
Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat
Nobody touches it, nobody cares. It just sits there, a Dual Processor Dual Core Hyperthreaded monster and nobody thinks its worth the time to even login.
Even I don-t touch it because the fan is noisy, all that eye candy and gloss and the noisy fan outweighs it.
I'm typing this on Feisty Fluffer, no Funky Feaster, no Finkle Fungerstein, oh whatever the latest Ubuntu is called. It's far from perfect, the keyboard layout doesn't know the Spanish keyboard I have (where are those damn brackets_ and why is the question mark an underscore__). The typefaces are not as good as Windows, the status bar is too high and the icons too amateur, but so far 2 people have asked me for a copy of the disk.
So yes Vista is in trouble, big big trouble. It-s a big yawn, it's late and the stories we hear of privileges being determined by filename etc. mean I just don-t want to waste time with it.
What do you mean, slow starter.
They've already sold 244 copies in China!
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
Well because it has better secur...errr, I mean, the driver support is muc...well, ok, you may have me there.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
As much as the media may want it to be, there is no competition in a market with a Monopoly.
Oh come on, I think there is. I can think of several off the top of my head; Snakes & Ladders, Hungry Hungry Hippoes, Cluedo, etc.
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
no at least there is hope for the best looking employee at a Wal-mart
Vista is akin to being the highest quality steak at Ponderosa
There is absolutely nothing to get excited about with Vista.
The 'wow' starts now! How can you not get excited about that??
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
So you can get practice clicking "Cancel" or "Allow" of course!! All the cool kids are doing it!!
I'm sorry, I thought we were conversing in English. Your use of the term 'communist dictatorship' and inability to understand the similarity between other legally required services with services that MS might be required to provide, indicates that you are using some other language that I am unfamiliar with, which makes this thread pointless. Hopefully, there is enough overlap in our two languages for you to make out what this posts says.
porn
I haven't seen this for a few days.
I was actually beginning to get a bit worried.
Just as one human being to another, I'm glad you're ok.
"There is nothing nice about Steve Jobs and nothing evil about Bill Gates." - Chuck Peddle
Wow I didn't know someone could hate themselves that much.
I tried your suggestion and had to immediately run for the plunger; and now I also have a pretty bad rash. Thanks jerk.
How does a 7-person democracy cut a pie? Into 4 pieces.
Why? Why on earth? What do all these versions do and why do I need to do research into that before I can buy?
Yeah.
"Please God, don't make me use my brain! I'll do anything...anything but that!"