Verily I say unto thee, that John Locke spake thusly:
> On 29 Apr 2007 09:59:50 -0700, Leisure.204@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>> http://freewindowsvista.blogspot.com/ - Get Windows Vista for Free
>
> So what strings are attached ? or this one of them jokes ?
>
> It can't be Win drone souls they want as they already have those.
I see nothing on that page indicating "Vista for free" ... no links ...
nothing. Not that it matters, as I've said before, Microsoft would have
to pay *me* to endure their Crapware, and even then, I'd refuse.
Related:
Microsoft Vista is not an option:
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| What it all comes down to is Microsoft is turning the screw on me too
| hard. I can't legitimately use its software without becoming a
| criminal or spending tens of thousands of dollars. If it gives me a
| truckload of free copies, I will still be spending the majority of my
| time on the phone with people in Bangalore typing in licence keys to
| stay legal.
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| It simply is not worth it anymore, I can't use Vista. Believe it or
| not, I was pretty neutral on XP, it did what I needed and usually
| worked in a mostly acceptable fashion. It has been mostly secure
| because I was not abjectly stupid. I had no reason to switch, but
| Microsoft has given me the choice of becoming a criminal or going to
| Linux. In a few weeks, I don't plan on looking back.
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- http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36653
Beware being ripped by Vista hardware scams:
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| Corporate customers can do PC upgrades, mostly, but the
| cost-effectiveness of the job is very questionable. They generally
| have just about enough support staff to keep the routine work under
| control. Doing serious upgrades on large numbers of machines would
| take manpower they don't have. Most companies will deploy Vista
| gradually, as they replace their machines. I did some estimates, when
| fanboys on the beta programme claimed that a mass upgrade would save
| money, and concluded that even if Vista was free and ran on exactly
| the same harware, the support costs of the upgrade made it a looser.
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- http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=37515
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K.
http://slated.org
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| I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system,
| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
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Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) on sky, running kernel 2.6.20-1.2312.fc5
03:17:24 up 13 days, 49 min, 5 users, load average: 0.57, 0.76, 0.89
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