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Olympic Committee Chooses XP Over Vista
Vinit writes "The popularity of Windows XP is still making things difficult for Vista. Now Vista has again suffered a major setback, with Lenovo (Olympic 2008' official sponsor) installing XP on it's machines to run the Olympic Games' vital PC-related tasks. Vista will only be used in internet lounges set up for athletes to use during the games."
Daddy would you like some sausage?
No point retraining the support people on Vista when I'm sure all the officials and athletes are still using XP.
And.... First post!
You moved your mouse. Please restart Windows for changes to take effect.
I know you are totally making that whole story up, but indulge us anyway on these "problems" that you've found.
The funny thing is that, assuming that your story is even remotely true, that you've paid MS twice. Once for Vista and again for XP, all the while you're typing this as if you've really stuck to MS by not using Vista.
Oh brother, another "Vista is horrible" liar.
So what is making Vista "hell" for you? Can you make up something fast.
And I love the "Im gonna install Linux when I get home" BS you tack on at the end. Anything to get those vote totals up, eh?
Isn't training for the Olympics hard enough? Couldn't they be given a "better" O/S?
If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0.
Kind of amazing how they didn't feel teh Lunix was even ready for the short-term use the Olympics represent. They probably didn't want to spend months figuring out which distro would work on which machine, the necessity of manually configuring hardware, manually moving files around and making config file changes (manually, of course).
They probably just concluded there would be far too much man hours involved in using teh Lunix, and it's far easier finding qualified people to work on Windows.
Haha, you little liberal haters... This is such a pathetic thread...