"[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx> writes:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> __/ [ Linonut ] on Sunday 15 April 2007 15:11 \__
>>
>>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o'
>>> wisdom:
>>>
>>>> http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/5366
>>>>
>>>> Vista has been more damaging to Microsoft than Windows ME. Oh, dear.
>>> Objection! Witness rendering an opinion!
>>>
>>> Steve wrote:
>>>
>>> Our company recently purchased new computers from Dell, the hardware
>>> was much faster than our 'old' computers running XP.
>>>
>>> Vista boot - is appalling atleast 2 minutes (longer) than the 30
>>> seconds XP takes.
>>>
>>> Quite a few application are not compatible - or worse partly
>>> compatible.
>>>
>>> Copy / Move / Delete of files is so slow we ended up burning DVD's
>>> than copying across our very fast gigabit network.
>>>
>>> . . .
>>>
>>> Windows Media Player 11 - crashes regularly.
>>> IE7 - locks up every couple of hours.
>>> On heavy usage we were rebooting - all our Vista machines an average
>>> of 3 hours.
>>> The Backup/Restore feature did not work.
>>> The Computer - Computer transfer did not work and crashed the Vista
>>> machine constantly.
>>>
>>> Eventually we had our machines replaced and we have just installed XP
>>> on them. It works perfectly ok and we can now copy files at normal
>>> rates. (we have also dual booted them with Linux)
>>>
>>> Overruled!
>>
>> Linux? That's not good for anyone, is it? Does it mean they want to give up
>> on Windows altogether (perhaps in the long term)?
>
> No doubt. After all, Wine/Cedega is currently a better Windows than the
> current Windows is.
>
> How sad is that?
It is sad that you feel the need to repeat this urban myth. I have used
both Wine & CEDEGA and they are works in motion. Incomplete. Buggy and
sometimes very inefficient. Impressive pieces of work nonetheless.
> Not that they're going to need Wine much anyway, once they switch (games
> aside).
--
They are most deceived that trusteth most in themselves.
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