Vista SP1 "tries to hide the Ultimate Extras shame"

[Donald L McDaniel]

So you are prejudiced too.

Yes, I am, nor have I ever denied it. I am prejudiced against idiots
like yourself, who have no understanding of the language they profess
to speak as a first language. If you were not a speaker of English as
your first language, I would understand. But you are not, apparently.
So you are twice at fault. Once for being an ignoramus, and once for
being an ignoramus consciously.

So why do you give me a hard time about it?!

Because you are so damned ignorant. If you would make an effort to
educate yourself, I would probably slack off on you.

One mark of an intelligent man is his ability to accept criticism
gracefully. This usually only comes with age. The older we get, the
wiser we get (or we should get).

The foolish young man or woman never accepts criticism, for any
reason, because they think they know all the answers, when they
actually know none, by reason of inexperience and stubbornness. The
wise one LOOKS for it.

Donald L McDaniel

 

[DanS]

You put it too mildly, parabola. This anti-Vista crowd is a criminal
bunch.

Nothing criminal about it.

They are a mixture of crooks with some on-campus anti-MS
counterculture. They all use MS for their if*king needs but pretend
that they are forced to do it by the hateful capitalist system.

Linux market share is exactly 0.0%. All the inflated figures they
quote, the most reliable is 2.9% come from sales in third world
countries and "New Democracies" like Poland, Russia and Romania. They
buy DELL computers with Linux and replace them with pirated Windows
next day but if you give the shop owner a tip he will do it for you
before you dragged your Linux home.

And you have personal knowledge of this going on ? I doubt it.

Those scummy West Costa "Intellectual," a campus mold, who loud their
hate for MS use pirated copies as well.

It is a criminal network, and Ubuntu is a part of it.

Another blatant off-the-wall statement by you.

 

[AlexB]

You are wrong about Vista, it is slightly over 10% now. I was wrong about
Linux, I do not know why I quoted that. When I went to bed an hour later and
tan thru events of the day I clearly remembered the actual figure.

This figure is 0.59%


Nov 2007:

Net Application's Market Share report (here)
Windows XP 78.37%
Windows Vista 9.19%
MacIntel 3.59%
Mac OS 3.22%
Windows 2000 2.97%
Windows 98 0.76%
Windows NT 0.63%
Linux 0.57%
Windows ME 0.43%

Yes, there is a strong criminal underpinning for Linux and especially
Ubuntu. Those people, some of them you saw here quite recently: "no
flammable" on everything, MICHAEL, VistaByte, etc buy written off computers
or machines from inferior grade manufacturers with Ubuntu. If it is an old
machine they will strip the Windows OS and install this Ubuntu or whatnot.
This way they meet Export License requirements. it is low tech. The machines
are sold to Africa where the name of this so called "OS" sounds appealing
and Eastern Europe, countries like Poland.

A computer sold with Linux enters the statistics as such but the owner does
a fresh install of a pirated OS perhaps supplies by the same crowd.

"Throughout 2007, according to reports by Net Applications, Vista managed to
grab 10.48% market share. Windows XP lost 8.39%, Mac OS increased its market
share by 3.15% while Linux increased by 0.26% i...Tue, Jan 8, found via
......"

The above quite which I found at another website (did not save the link) was
in tern referring to this site as the source:

http://www.windowsvistamagazine.com/UK/

I had no patience to go thru it.

It appears that Vista has been marshalling ahead at a steady rate of about
1% per month.

Tonight I had to go to a major school in town to help a friend to set some
parameters on her new computer. They just bought it. It still has XP. They
do not have brains to switch to Vista, it is out of the question. A huge 23"
monitor has a VGA connection. Nobody pays attention to it. I

 

[AlexB]

What specifically is the name of your syndrome. "Synapse Syndrome" does not
exist in the literature. You must have been mistaken about it. Did they tell
you that you had schizopheriform syndrome? Manic depressive syndrome or
what? Are you taking your medications affirmative action genius?

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

You are wrong about Vista, it is slightly over 10% now. I was wrong about
Linux, I do not know why I quoted that. When I went to bed an hour later
and tan thru events of the day I clearly remembered the actual figure.

This figure is 0.59%


Nov 2007:

Net Application's Market Share report (here)
Windows XP 78.37%
Windows Vista 9.19%
MacIntel 3.59%
Mac OS 3.22%
Windows 2000 2.97%
Windows 98 0.76%
Windows NT 0.63%
Linux 0.57%
Windows ME 0.43%

Yes, there is a strong criminal underpinning for Linux and especially
Ubuntu. Those people, some of them you saw here quite recently: "no
flammable" on everything, MICHAEL, VistaByte, etc buy written off
computers or machines from inferior grade manufacturers with Ubuntu. If it
is an old machine they will strip the Windows OS and install this Ubuntu
or whatnot. This way they meet Export License requirements. it is low
tech. The machines are sold to Africa where the name of this so called
"OS" sounds appealing and Eastern Europe, countries like Poland.

A computer sold with Linux enters the statistics as such but the owner
does a fresh install of a pirated OS perhaps supplies by the same crowd.

"Throughout 2007, according to reports by Net Applications, Vista managed
to grab 10.48% market share. Windows XP lost 8.39%, Mac OS increased its
market share by 3.15% while Linux increased by 0.26% i...Tue, Jan 8, found
via ....."

The above quite which I found at another website (did not save the link)
was in tern referring to this site as the source:

http://www.windowsvistamagazine.com/UK/

I had no patience to go thru it.

It appears that Vista has been marshalling ahead at a steady rate of about
1% per month.

Tonight I had to go to a major school in town to help a friend to set some
parameters on her new computer. They just bought it. It still has XP. They
do not have brains to switch to Vista, it is out of the question. A huge
23" monitor has a VGA connection. Nobody pays attention to it. I

Who let this demented old loony out of the old people's home?

ss.

 

[MICHAEL]

Who let this demented old loony out of the old people's home?

ss.

Thanks, SS. :-/ I had not seen this post where he mentions my
name again. I think he's really in love/obsessed with me. ;-)


-Michael

 

[dvdferret]

Commies, Hippes and Slackers OH MY!!

This is quite possibly the funniest thread I read in a long time. Such fanbois.

Firstly, I would like to state that I currently support Windows based servers and desktops at my work. I use XP Pro, Vista x64 and x32 Ultimate and Ubuntu in my home.

I used to have this childish devotion to whatever OS I was using at the time and of course, because I was using it, it had to be the best. Well, then I turned 12 years old and realized that each operating system has it's own strengths and weaknesses.

Mac OSes have always been great OSes for your grandmother or the design guys at work. Windows desktops have always offered the greatest compatibility for hardware and software because people actually get paid to produce it - it's not a labor (sorry, labour - UK) of love like FOSS software and OSes. Never mind that MS OSes actually create (and also mess up) the current conventions. Linux is a decent desktop for those who want to make their own path and have an ultimate level of customization, I mean heck, you can compile your own kernel if you want. Linux, and Unix variants (including HP-UX and the likes) make excellent servers.

I would venture to say that there are more *nix flavored servers currently serving pages to the internet than any other OS. There are certainly more servers running Apache than IIS. Mostly due to the easy of deployment and the lower hardware requirements.

I'm not really fond of statistics in general. Someone quoted that 10% of the current market share is Vista; however, you have to understand that this does not mean that Vista is breaking new ground or being deployed over OSX or Linux desktops. What is does mean is that the users that are purchasing new PCs are being forced to but Vista because there is little alternative. Ok, if are a corp. you can request XP Pro instead from most retailers and wholesalers. Also, I heard no mention of the decline in XP OSes in the market share. Where is this 10% coming from? Are we expected to believe that Microsoft created another 10% of market that was not there before Vista? Are Mac OS users installing Vista? (Which is highly improbable because I think it would be extremely hard and have near zero driver support.)

There is a lot of ranting going on in this thread, I just aim to increase understanding. For instance, if all Microsoft technologies are king and are good for anyone and any purpose, then why does this website run PHP instead of ASP? (Ok, I know it runs 2K3, but they could have used ASP instead.) Are they those commies or hippies or whatever you've been talking about?

/rant