wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:47:10 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
"Reggie is Here wrote:

I have been looking at purchasing a new laptop for my son as he starts
his PhD program and another for my daughter as she enters college. When
comparing the cost of a 15" Laptop from Apple to a comparable 15" PC, I
can not justify the cost difference. I looked online to see when was
the last date Windows will be selling the XP version, and noticed that
their is a petition to request MS continue selling XP beyond their
current cut off date of June 30. So far, they have over 100,000 people
to sign the petition.

If you would like the option of buying XP after June30, stop by and sign
their petition, it just might make an impact on MS decision.

http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/



You would have to find a way to send Bill Gates some more money to
impact his decision. That is all the greedy ******* recognizes.
Certainly older operating systems will still run (I am using W/98
here) but he always makes sure his new applications are not backward
compatible so the content you can access shrinks to the point that you
have to upgrade.
Usually the "improvement" is meaningless and only done to force
obsolecence of the older OS (like the DOCX file)


If the improvements are "meaningless," then why worry about backwards
compatibility?

In the consumer world, most MS apps that run under windoze will run
under XP or VISTA, the two "current" operating systems. Most current
apps also ran under Win2k.

I'm not a big fan of MS "apps," per se, and in fact have a copy of
Office 2007 I installed and then removed. I prefer the older Office 2003.

There are plenty of reasons to criticize MS, legitimate reasons. Trying
to move the line forward is not one of them.

And while Gates is a very wealthy man, he is most busy these days
working to give his money away through his foundation. Gates is a huge
contributor to educational and health causes.