Has anyone tried it? I put it on my PC at home and at work... And Damned if I did not remove it within a day or two of TORMENT. Home PC is Dual Core 3.0 GHz with XP Home and it CRIPPLED it!!!!!!!!!! At work nothing else would run with the browser going.
ALso stay away from Media Player 11 until they fix that SON OF A BUCK!
MS actually mean MASS SUICIDE for end users and those who support them (IT techs)
It is damn joke that in India and other countries you can buy Windows XP Pro for 25 to 35 US dollars.
It is just the same with medicine, let the Americans pay STEEP prices and give it away to the rest of the world.
Sh_t, Vista is suppose to come out in 3 flavors and I am guessing 200, 400 and 600 dollar versions. Pretty soon you will be able to buy the hardware for next to nothing but the software will bleed you dry......
I remember paying 35.00 for DOS 6.22 and I think 49.00 for WIN 3.1 and WIN 3.11
Anyways, Gates wants to have a yearly income of the combined GNP of the US minus Microsoft sales..... Yeah and pay about $5 in taxes due to his loop hole structure....
Basically, I do not have a problem paying for software as long as it is at a reasonable rate. I buy when it is on sale or clearance. Games at 50.00 is ridiculous, I buy them for 10.00 or less.
Business software is so over priced, when you do buy one then you can only put it on one PC in your house which is ludicrous. If you have 2 or 3 PC's in your house, who but Bill Gates (or his non techie friend Warren Buffett) is going to buy a valid license for every PROCESSOR on every PC in his 50 Million dollar house... Hell, I bet he has a WIN Vista beta running his garage door opener, and Damn if it didn't drop the door on his Rolls-Royce and Lamborghini about a dozen times each!
Drop the price of software a larger amount of people will buy it rather than a rate of 5 or 10% with a piracy rater of 90 to 95%.
On anohter note How many programmers and year does it take to design Vista? 38000 and 7 years was reported.... Sh_t, that is like 530 Million hours to review something of about 2 million lines of code.... They must be stumbling over each other trying to decipher one anothers code, unless they only have 5 hour work weeks......
Slashdot Mirror
Has anyone tried it? I put it on my PC at home and at work... And Damned if I did not remove it within a day or two of TORMENT. Home PC is Dual Core 3.0 GHz with XP Home and it CRIPPLED it!!!!!!!!!! At work nothing else would run with the browser going.
ALso stay away from Media Player 11 until they fix that SON OF A BUCK!
MS actually mean MASS SUICIDE for end users and those who support them (IT techs)
It is damn joke that in India and other countries you can buy Windows XP Pro for 25 to 35 US dollars.
It is just the same with medicine, let the Americans pay STEEP prices and give it away to the rest of the world.
Sh_t, Vista is suppose to come out in 3 flavors and I am guessing 200, 400 and 600 dollar versions. Pretty soon you will be able to buy the hardware for next to nothing but the software will bleed you dry......
I remember paying 35.00 for DOS 6.22 and I think 49.00 for WIN 3.1 and WIN 3.11
Anyways, Gates wants to have a yearly income of the combined GNP of the US minus Microsoft sales..... Yeah and pay about $5 in taxes due to his loop hole structure....
Basically, I do not have a problem paying for software as long as it is at a reasonable rate. I buy when it is on sale or clearance. Games at 50.00 is ridiculous, I buy them for 10.00 or less. Business software is so over priced, when you do buy one then you can only put it on one PC in your house which is ludicrous. If you have 2 or 3 PC's in your house, who but Bill Gates (or his non techie friend Warren Buffett) is going to buy a valid license for every PROCESSOR on every PC in his 50 Million dollar house... Hell, I bet he has a WIN Vista beta running his garage door opener, and Damn if it didn't drop the door on his Rolls-Royce and Lamborghini about a dozen times each! Drop the price of software a larger amount of people will buy it rather than a rate of 5 or 10% with a piracy rater of 90 to 95%. On anohter note How many programmers and year does it take to design Vista? 38000 and 7 years was reported.... Sh_t, that is like 530 Million hours to review something of about 2 million lines of code.... They must be stumbling over each other trying to decipher one anothers code, unless they only have 5 hour work weeks......