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Re: Vista so unpopular that Dell reinstates the XP option

  • Subject: Re: Vista so unpopular that Dell reinstates the XP option
  • From: Hadron Quark <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:45:11 +0200
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John Locke <johnlocke98513@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:23:58 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>__/ [ John Locke ] on Friday 20 April 2007 06:20 \__
>>
>>> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:37:35 +0100, "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>Come back XP, all is forgiven!
>>>>
>>>>.----
>>>>| Dell is bringing XP back.
>>> This is good to hear, but I thought that Microsoft was going to stop
>>> issuing XP licenses to OEMs in January 2008.
>>
>>*LOL*
>>
>>It's like shutting the fridge, locking it for good and leaving a bunch of
>>baked beans cans all over the floor. Sooner or later the residents will move
>>to a different house, or try the hotel (Linux).
>
> Pretty funny Roy. That just about sums it up.
>

Could you explain 

(a) how it was funny

and

(b) how the analogy works

because, thick as I am, it sounds like typical Roybot drivel while he
attempts to be highbrow and stimulating. 

-- 
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

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