__/ [ Linonut ] on Sunday 28 January 2007 17:02 \__
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o'
> wisdom:
>
>> Ubuntu Ultimate Edition
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | It seems the folk over at Ubuntu Software have released an ultimate
>> | edition of Ubuntu which is aptly called Ubuntu Ultimate Edition.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.ubufied.com/2007/01/28/ubuntu-ultimate-edition/
>>
>> A funny cartoon on customer confusion:
>>
>> http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyimages/915.gif
>
> Vista is now advertised in Office Depot. I see only two editions,
> though: Home Basic and Home Premium. There's a little note that Home
> Premium is the one that gives you Aero.
>
> Yawn.
Still crippled. You buy a computer with a set of incomplete software tools
(disabled). Your credit card will unlock them [1,2], after the initial
purchase is made and you find yourself facing man-made fences. This doesn't
include Office either, but then again, OOo is free. Could pass over Windows,
wipe the HDD, put Linux on it and get OOo within 15-20 minutes on a modern
machine (plus some other nice S/W).
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[1] Boycott The Windows Vista Release
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| For reference, this is the list of features Microsoft says is added
| in Vista Ultimate
|
| * "Help protect against hardware failure"
| * "Business Networking and Remote Desktop"
| * "Better Protect Your Data"
|
| Hell, I've used the top two features in XP Professional so much I
| don't know what the heck I?d do without them, and better protect my
| data? YES PLEASE!
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http://www.nigelj.com/blog/2007/01/windows-vista-release/
[2] Acer: Vista Home Basic is a lemon
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| Microsoft is effectively smuggling through a price hike for Windows
| Vista - by making the entry-level version so poor that no-one will
| want to use it. So says Jim Wong, senior veep at Acer, the world's
| number four PC maker, who told UK hack Jon Honeyball: "The new
| [Vista] experience you hear of, if you get Basic, you won't feel
| it at all. There's no [Aero] graphics, no Media Center, no
| remote control."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/27/acer_slams_vista_home_basic/
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