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Voracious Microsoft wants $450 for Vista
know code wrote: VanShania wrote: Unless linix becomes as versatile as Mac's OS X, it will only be used by those who don't have much to do anyways What are you talking about? I can do everything I need to do on my linux box that I could do with Windoze, and what I need to do is probably a lot more than the average Joe. I have used the latest offerings from both camps, have you? IMO, the latest linux is now way ahead of XP in performance, stability, security etc (and it is free). And, it is now much easier to install than XP (try installing XP on a S-ATA drive if you're a newbie!). For the last week or so, it seems apparent to me that VanShania is just trolling. |
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Voracious Microsoft wants $450 for Vista
Guest wrote: "know code" wrote in message ... Guest wrote: You know, you people who always hate the #1's drive me crazy. Why waste your time always bashing them? It is the same the way Microsoft loves to bash Sony for having the #1 spot in videogames. It is the same the way the US loves to hate NYC for being #1 and getting all of the attention. It is the same as the rest of the world hating on the US for being #1 and wanting to bring it down, including this country's buddies colonialism, the western Europeans. The only thing M$ is #1 at is including security flaws in its products.... oh, and crashing.... and ripping off customers with second rate products! I have a very stable, very secure linux box here and the OS never cost a penny. For those reasons, that makes linux #1 for me, not because I dislike M$. Now, if you want to continue using a second rate, highly expensive, very insecure product, then go right ahead! What would you do without Linux? You bias is very clear. Why hate? If someone can come out with a better product that can be used with everything, then maybe Microsoft may have some comp, but until then, why hate? Is Linux perfect? Linux isn't perfect. But if it create competition for Microsoft, then its good for the industry. What Linux needs to take off is a great office suite that is truly interoperable with MS Office. If that is developed (look for the Chinese), then Microsoft has a problem. |
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Voracious Microsoft wants $450 for Vista
Hmmm...a troll that can't spell!
It's *LINUX*. Sucks being you, huh? Bobby "VanShania" wrote in message ... Unless linix becomes as versatile as Mac's OS X, it will only be used by those who don't have much to do anyways -- Sapphire X1600 Pro 512mb AGP MSI Theater 550Pro TV Tuner Thermaltake LanFire Midtower(4X80mm fans),Antec 550 Watt PSU Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 nForce3, A64 3500+, Stock Cooler IdleTemp 28 C 2 Gb Dual Channel PC3200 OCZ Platinum 2-3-2-5 CL2.5 Viewsonic A91f 19in Moniter 2XSATA WD 320gb Raid Edition, PATA WD 120Gb HD Pioneer 110D Dual Layer burner Logitech MX 310 Optical Mouse Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 Joystick Microsoft ergonomic keyboard Cheap computer speakers with Sennheiser HD 477 Headphones 3DMark05Free-Overall-3134 1024X768, 4XAA/8XAF 6.4Drivers Cpu - 4405 3Dmark2001 - 8702 4XAA/8XAF 1280X1024 Games I'm Playing- IL-2 Sturmovick Series Empire Earth 2, Need For Speed: Underground 2, Civ IV, Warhammer 40,000 Gold "Rich" wrote in message ... http://www.physorg.com/news68303558.html |
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Voracious Microsoft wants $450 for Vista
"know code" wrote in message ... Guest wrote: You know, you people who always hate the #1's drive me crazy. Why waste your time always bashing them? It is the same the way Microsoft loves to bash Sony for having the #1 spot in videogames. It is the same the way the US loves to hate NYC for being #1 and getting all of the attention. It is the same as the rest of the world hating on the US for being #1 and wanting to bring it down, including this country's buddies colonialism, the western Europeans. The only thing M$ is #1 at is including security flaws in its products.... oh, and crashing.... and ripping off customers with second rate products! I have a very stable, very secure linux box here and the OS never cost a penny. For those reasons, that makes linux #1 for me, not because I dislike M$. Now, if you want to continue using a second rate, highly expensive, very insecure product, then go right ahead! And yet another uneducated script kiddie joins the fray.... I have installed Windows on thousands of machines over the years, and very few had any of the problems you describe, and most often problems were due to third party software and not Windows. Yes, linux is a very nice OS...but not for your average computer buyer. Bobby |
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On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 07:15:30 -0700, "Boe"
wrote: WOW - I thought MS's goal was to reduce the amount of people who pirate their software - raise the price and I'm sure that is a great way to do this! Of course it will be more secure - if you make a package this expensive about as small of a percentage of the population will use this OS as do Linux, FreeBSD, or OSX. We'll all be stuck with Windows XP or will start looking more towards Linux or OSXI to be our OS of choice - brilliant MS! "Rich" wrote in message .. . http://www.physorg.com/news68303558.html In the beginning, Microsoft wanted a certain degree of piracy because it was the best way to get the word out on their products. Now, they seem to want to bleed people for as much as they can, as fast as they can because they know it's only a matter of time before people start seriously looking at alternatives. |
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Maybe that's her problem. She's critical of Linix and we think she's critical of Linux NoNoBadDog! wrote: Hmmm...a troll that can't spell! It's *LINUX*. Sucks being you, huh? Bobby "VanShania" wrote in message ... Unless linix becomes as versatile as Mac's OS X, it will only be used by those who don't have much to do anyways -- Sapphire X1600 Pro 512mb AGP MSI Theater 550Pro TV Tuner Thermaltake LanFire Midtower(4X80mm fans),Antec 550 Watt PSU Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 nForce3, A64 3500+, Stock Cooler IdleTemp 28 C 2 Gb Dual Channel PC3200 OCZ Platinum 2-3-2-5 CL2.5 Viewsonic A91f 19in Moniter 2XSATA WD 320gb Raid Edition, PATA WD 120Gb HD Pioneer 110D Dual Layer burner Logitech MX 310 Optical Mouse Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 Joystick Microsoft ergonomic keyboard Cheap computer speakers with Sennheiser HD 477 Headphones 3DMark05Free-Overall-3134 1024X768, 4XAA/8XAF 6.4Drivers Cpu - 4405 3Dmark2001 - 8702 4XAA/8XAF 1280X1024 Games I'm Playing- IL-2 Sturmovick Series Empire Earth 2, Need For Speed: Underground 2, Civ IV, Warhammer 40,000 Gold "Rich" wrote in message . .. http://www.physorg.com/news68303558.html |
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On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:42:26 +0000, Guest wrote:
"know code" wrote in message ... Guest wrote: You know, you people who always hate the #1's drive me crazy. Why waste your time always bashing them? It is the same the way Microsoft loves to bash Sony for having the #1 spot in videogames. It is the same the way the US loves to hate NYC for being #1 and getting all of the attention. It is the same as the rest of the world hating on the US for being #1 and wanting to bring it down, including this country's buddies colonialism, the western Europeans. The only thing M$ is #1 at is including security flaws in its products.... oh, and crashing.... and ripping off customers with second rate products! I have a very stable, very secure linux box here and the OS never cost a penny. For those reasons, that makes linux #1 for me, not because I dislike M$. Now, if you want to continue using a second rate, highly expensive, very insecure product, then go right ahead! What would you do without Linux? You bias is very clear. Why hate? If someone can come out with a better product that can be used with everything, then maybe Microsoft may have some comp, but until then, why hate? Is Linux perfect? Yes, Linux is perfect, or as close to it you can get. Let's see, it's supported on many different hardware platforms. There aren't any viruses for it. It's free. There's tons of free software for it. So free, on about any hareware platform. What more could one ask of a perfect OS? Do I care what you use? Hell no. Do I hate MS? No more than than I'd hate any other lying SOB.:-) -- Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html Usenet alt.video.ptv.mythtv My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php HD Tivo S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm |
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NoNoBadDog! wrote:
"know code" wrote in message ... Guest wrote: You know, you people who always hate the #1's drive me crazy. Why waste your time always bashing them? It is the same the way Microsoft loves to bash Sony for having the #1 spot in videogames. It is the same the way the US loves to hate NYC for being #1 and getting all of the attention. It is the same as the rest of the world hating on the US for being #1 and wanting to bring it down, including this country's buddies colonialism, the western Europeans. The only thing M$ is #1 at is including security flaws in its products.... oh, and crashing.... and ripping off customers with second rate products! I have a very stable, very secure linux box here and the OS never cost a penny. For those reasons, that makes linux #1 for me, not because I dislike M$. Now, if you want to continue using a second rate, highly expensive, very insecure product, then go right ahead! And yet another uneducated script kiddie joins the fray.... I have installed Windows on thousands of machines over the years, and very few had any of the problems you describe, and most often problems were due to third party software and not Windows. Yes, linux is a very nice OS...but not for your average computer buyer. Script kiddie? Hardly. I've been using Windoze for ~15 years (and DOS for a number of years before that) and *nix type OS's for ~12 years! And in that time, the OS that has had the most problems, and by a huge margin too, has been Windoze. So, just basing my opinion on a total of ~27 years experience! Now, installing Windoze on thousands of computers is fine... or course it will work well on a fresh install, but give it a year or so with a clueless user who doesn't keep his virus definitions up-to-date, doesn't defrag the disk regularly, doesn't remove spyware regularly.... yes, I've worked on and fixed more computers like this than I care to remember. By the same token, check a linux box after a year and I think you'll find it will be running a lot smoother with a lot less junkware. As for linux not being for your average computer buyer? Have you tried a recent version lately? It seems to be going down a storm in places like China and Africa without many major issues! |
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Merrill P. L. Worthington wrote:
Guest wrote: "know code" wrote in message ... Guest wrote: You know, you people who always hate the #1's drive me crazy. Why waste your time always bashing them? It is the same the way Microsoft loves to bash Sony for having the #1 spot in videogames. It is the same the way the US loves to hate NYC for being #1 and getting all of the attention. It is the same as the rest of the world hating on the US for being #1 and wanting to bring it down, including this country's buddies colonialism, the western Europeans. The only thing M$ is #1 at is including security flaws in its products.... oh, and crashing.... and ripping off customers with second rate products! I have a very stable, very secure linux box here and the OS never cost a penny. For those reasons, that makes linux #1 for me, not because I dislike M$. Now, if you want to continue using a second rate, highly expensive, very insecure product, then go right ahead! What would you do without Linux? You bias is very clear. Why hate? If someone can come out with a better product that can be used with everything, then maybe Microsoft may have some comp, but until then, why hate? Is Linux perfect? Linux isn't perfect. But if it create competition for Microsoft, then its good for the industry. What Linux needs to take off is a great office suite that is truly interoperable with MS Office. If that is developed (look for the Chinese), then Microsoft has a problem. Openoffice 2.0 (free). It is fully interoperable with ~99% of everything that MS Office can do. Yes there are a few (obscure) features that still don't work properly but for about 99% of the general population, it may as well be MS Office as far as they'd be concerned. |
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NoNoBadDog! wrote:
Hmmm...a troll that can't spell! It's *LINUX*. Good point. I guess if VanShania can't even spell the name of the OS, they he/she/it doesn't have much experience with it so doesn't know what he/she/it is talking about. I guess just another brain-washed M$ drone |
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