I thought this was interesting ...

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Andyistic

As you all know, I am a strong supporter of Vista (albeit the stiff price),
and was amused when I came along this webpage: http://badvista.fsf.org

How do they expect to promote this idea and what makes them think that a
company like Microsft can be successfully boycotted?

I agree that Vista does have it's bad moments, but all versions of Windows
do.
In fact, all operating systems do. It's really a matter of how advanced such
a system is.

The way I see it, there's nothing worse than impeding the progress of useful
technology, so doing this "Let's not use Vista" thing is a step in the wrong
direction, since trying to instal and use systems such as Vista encourages
hardware manufacturers to keep improving their products. Who wants to stop
that from happening?

-- Andy

P.S. I've decided that a problem within Vista that causes one to feel
disappointed is known as a Vistappointment.
I suppose it could also mean an appointment involving Vista.
 
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Lang Murphy

Andy,

Just another Linux geek marketing site. It wouldn't matter if Vista were
100% defect free, which of course, even us Vista "subscribers" acknowledge
is not the case; these folks would stll attempt to get folks to move to
Linux. Heck, I don't have a problem with that because I'd bet, fully 99%
of -casual- users who ever went through the installation and -configuration-
of ANY Linux distro would come running back to Vista faster than one could
say "See ya, wouldn't want to be ya."

And... for all those Linux geeks who are getting ready to flame me; save the
bandwidth... I have no problem with Linux as an OS. It's great, if ur a
geek. And spare me the "my grandmother is running SuSE without issue."
responses. Yeah, Grandma is running SuSE because you set it up for her. Give
Grandma a SuSE CD and ask her to install and -configure- the OS... well, ah,
no?

Lang
 
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NoStop

Lang said:
Andy,

And... for all those Linux geeks who are getting ready to flame me; save
the bandwidth... I have no problem with Linux as an OS. It's great, if ur
a geek. And spare me the "my grandmother is running SuSE without issue."
responses. Yeah, Grandma is running SuSE because you set it up for her.
Give Grandma a SuSE CD and ask her to install and -configure- the OS...
well, ah, no?
Give Grandma Windows XP or Vista and have her install it from scratch and
get it working and come back and let us know how she made out. Oh, and
don't forget to give her the disk that came with her mobo, so she can get
those drivers installed also. And do make sure Grandma knows about and can
go out and get all those condoms she'll need to pile on her Windoze machine
to "protect" it against the 200,000 malwares out there in the wild
targeting her Windoze box. Of course she'll want to run some apps on that
Windoze box, but getting those all installed is beyond the scope of this
posting. :)

Cheers.
 
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Lang Murphy

Valid point. And... I did not claim that Grandma -could- install any other
OS...

Lang
 

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