Roy Schestowitz wrote:
[Part of missive deleted for brevity]
> Is Vista a Dead End?
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> | As we get ever closer to the official release of Microsoft's Windows
> | Vista operating system, we have to ask ourselves what comes next--or
> | is this the end? I think it is the end, for a lot of reasons.
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> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2037002,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03079TX1K0000584
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> Seems like Dvorak's recipe for trolling. He once told Dave Winer that
> choosing inflammatory titles and appending that _question mark_ is likely to
> boost traffic. But he is not alone in this type of analysis however.
I hate to admit that PC Magazine was one of my favorite magazine. I use
to think that it represents its readers preference. At that time I was
using Windows 3.11, and I continued to believe that for a long time. I
use to read the the opinions now called "Columns". Opinions was
more appropriate term because writers were trying to change the public
opinions - they are still doing the same thing. Most of their readers
are lemming. I use to be one of them - part of me still is.
Anyway, Dvorak's is one of the top five "opinion writer" --
followed by Michael J. Miller, Lance Ulanoff, and Bill Howard (Car
Freak). By top five I mean Media and Entertainment industry represents
them even though some of these writers detested by public. PC Magazine
is one of many reasons I left the Microsoft world and that is the only
good thing I can say about this magazine.
> Seen this headline a few minutes ago:
>
> Ballmer: Deal with Novell doesn't mean total Linux embrace
> ^^^^^
>
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> | 'I'm still going to tell you [to buy] Windows, Windows, Windows,'
> | says Steve balmer (sic)
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> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=software&articleId=9004739&taxonomyId=18&intsrc=kc_top
My answer to Micro-soft is that I would rather follow PC Turnoff advice
durning college exame.
See the link: http://www.pcturnoff.org/
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