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Maine To Skip Vista, Go Directly To Windows 7
Preedit writes "The State of Maine is the latest organization to skip Windows Vista, which has been a near-disaster for Microsoft. An internal state document (dated September 15) uncovered by Infoweek reveals that Maine will not be upgrading its more than 11,000 personal computing devices from XP to Vista — ever. Instead, it's going to wait until Windows 7 ships in 2010 and hope for the best. The news is in line with a survey that shows only 4% of businesses in the UK have upgraded to Vista, the story notes. So much for that $300 million Seinfeld campaign." A commenter on the article makes the point that Maine's signing an enterprise software license with Microsoft means that Redmond doesn't really lose out on this deal; it simply allows the state to upgrade its equipment and software on its own time.
Recently we told RIAA to go pound sand in their ass.
THAT'S all it took to get rid of them? Man, all that wasted money on lawyers, shoulda just bought some sand.
Here's a hint: If you look at Spock, you might notice he doesn't have a beard.
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Oh, a little over 10 years ago.
We can hammered and argue the logic of our thinking in person.
Sounds like someone already did.
You Mainers won't be so smug when you find out that Windows Mojave is really Vista!!!
Only, people are revolting
Indeed.
Everyone I work with uses it. Oh wait I forgot - I work at Microsoft.
Whoosh!
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You've just summed up the Slashdot experience about as well as I've ever heard.
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