Because you seemed to just take the attitude of brushing off the "semantecs"
of the incorrect advice you gave. Computers are dumb and only do what one
tells them to do. The least you could do is give correct advice rather than
attack me for correcting you. Now take your meds and chill out.
Me attack you? What was your need to correct me in the first place? It
appears from just your "few" posts over the last 2 wks that you are in
the habit of pointing out supposed "wrongs" according to you.....And you
are a Windows MS basher at that, so why do you even care?
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You say:
The OP made no mention of having a "recovery disk". Are you Wintards
unable to read a posting, digest its meaning and offer correct answers?
"The downloads might be "free", but most of the crap I see there is
"shareware" and that isn't "free". So what's the point again of this
website? You aren't getting affiliate fees, are you?"
"Software Assurance" coming from Microsoft, sounds like a misnomer. Much
like "military intelligence".
Simply put - XP is a p.o.s. when it comes to dealing with USB2. Maybe
MickeyMouse will fix it one day?
Because OSS threatens MickeyMouse and this MVP is one who lives,
breathes and bows to his Redmond god. Maybe he has shares? Maybe he gets
paid by MickeyMouse to spread its FUD?
Personally I don't have a need for either MS Office or StarOffice. Other
OSS programs I use frequently because they are better than their
commerical counterparts. I prefer Mozilla/FireFox over IE. I prefer K3B
over Nero. I prefer Apache over IIS. I prefer Kmail/Knode over
Outlook/OE. I prefer Linux over XP. On and on and on, I find that the
OSS stuff I use is superior to the commercial products out there. It's
also nice that they are free.
Why, when he's asking specifically about XP?
Why would you want to build a website that didn't follow the W3C
standards?
I think you've somehow missed a huge and growing part of the computer
community known as OSS (Open Source Software). There are thousands of
applications available that are non-proprietary and free to use. Many,
as they mature and continue to be developed meet or exceed commercially
available applications.
Of course not. What INCLUDED software that comes bundled with XP can be
relied upon to do much of anything? One usually has to find a third-
party app to get full functionality for a particular job.
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Need I go on? So to put it in my nice way, go **** yourself!
