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Microsoft's "New Coke"
I know some people will not believe this, but this is the God's honest
truth. I just got an email from my son. I told him I would purchase him a new laptop when he starts his post graduate work next fall. I had been reviewing the laptops in the marketplace, and decided on Lenovo, MACPRO was just too damn expensive. Lenovo build a first class, dependable computer very popular business and professionals because they are so reliable. They build them without all of the freeware, demoware, spyware and general bloatware that you find on so many mfg'ers. This crap can turn a good computer into a piece of crap that runs at a snail's pace. Dell has stopped putting it into their very limited business line of computers, but still loads up consumer models with all of this stuff. I read that Dell makes about $60 for every computer they put this into, so they have refused to remove it from the bulk of their computers, but it might be why they are having financial problems. I told my son I could get him a Lenovo with WinXP fully loaded as long as I purchased it before June 30 and I wanted to know if he wanted a 14" or 15" screen. His reply to me was: "At my job I spent most of my time using a Mac, but I did have to use a PC for certain projects. It had Windows Vista on it, and i am certain history will call Vista Microsoft's version of "New Coke". I really appreciate your offer to buy me a new laptop, but could you just give me the money you were going to spend on the Lenovo, and let me buy a MAC". That is a strong statement for MAC's when a college student would rather spend his own money upgrading to a MAC than use a PC, and is an example of why Apple's market share continues to grow. My son is a pretty smart guy and I guess that is why a top tier school gave him a complete scholarship, and is paying him a decent salary to continue his education. He is too smart to buy into MS's "NEW COKE". |
Microsoft's "New Coke"
On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:30:55 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
"Reggie is Here wrote: He is too smart to buy into MS's "NEW COKE". Accodring to Bill Gates, the next browser/op system is in the works and a beta will be released by Fall. They intend the release to go live in another year or thereabouts. Vista will be the 21st Century version of ME. |
Microsoft's "New Coke"
On Apr 5, 6:24*pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote: On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:30:55 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III" Vista will be the 21st Century version of ME. Vista will be the 21st Century version of ....YOU?? Cripes! |
Microsoft's "New Coke"
Tim wrote:
On Apr 5, 6:24 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:30:55 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III" Vista will be the 21st Century version of ME. Vista will be the 21st Century version of ....YOU?? Cripes! He's referring to an old modest version of Windoze OS, probably the one he uses on his 80286 desktop. |
Microsoft's "New Coke"
On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 17:38:04 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote: On Apr 5, 6:24*pm, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:30:55 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III" Vista will be the 21st Century version of ME. Vista will be the 21st Century version of ....YOU?? Cripes! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Me Moron... :) |
Microsoft's "New Coke"
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 17:38:04 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Apr 5, 6:24 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:30:55 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III" Vista will be the 21st Century version of ME. Vista will be the 21st Century version of ....YOU?? Cripes! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Me Moron... :) You have to wonder about the level of, well, hatred in this newsgroup for a computer operating system virtually none of the naysayers run. |
Microsoft's "New Coke"
JimH wrote:
"hk" wrote in message . .. Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 17:38:04 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Apr 5, 6:24 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:30:55 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III" Vista will be the 21st Century version of ME. Vista will be the 21st Century version of ....YOU?? Cripes! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Me Moron... :) You have to wonder about the level of, well, hatred in this newsgroup for a computer operating system virtually none of the naysayers run. The initial post was nothing more than a troll, something the author enjoys doing here. Ignore the troll. ;-) Well, of course. And Reggie's "quotes" from his kid sound just a tad made up. But of course everything about Reggie here is illusion. |
Microsoft's "New Coke"
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:30:55 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III" "Reggie is Here wrote: He is too smart to buy into MS's "NEW COKE". Accodring to Bill Gates, the next browser/op system is in the works and a beta will be released by Fall. They intend the release to go live in another year or thereabouts. Vista will be the 21st Century version of ME. Bill Gates knows a dog when he sees it. |
Microsoft's "New Coke"
On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:24:49 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Accodring to Bill Gates, the next browser/op system is in the works and a beta will be released by Fall. They intend the release to go live in another year or thereabouts. Vista will be the 21st Century version of ME. Only if Windows 7 is better than Vista. Want to see what the next version of Windows will be like? Look he http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/ Seriously, MS has gotten itself into a box. Depending on an OS as your main source of income, is a dead paradigm. With the new multi-core processors, virtualalization will kill MSs' cash cow. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070211-8811.html http://www.osnews.com/story/18804/Th...irtualisation/ |
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