__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Wednesday 07 March 2007 01:40 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:17:27 +0000
> <1768415.KssWGnMhH0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Vista Nightmare: The ?Oww!? Starts Now
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Oww! Microsoft Ad Parody
>> |
>> | Dear Microsoft Corporation,
>> |
>> | You?ve really done it this time.
>> |
>> | And I am leaving and never speaking to you again.
>> |
>> | It's not that I want to dislike you. I was loyal to you for so
>> | long.
>> |
>> | I stuck with you through thick and thin. From DOS 5.0 throughX
>> | P. Through decent functionality and through countless crashes.
>> |
>> | But this new operating system is the last straw.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.pseudomarketing.com/vista-nightmare-the-oww-starts-now/
>>
>>
>> Recent:
>>
>> Hasta La Vista
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Windows XP is already a dead product. There will be no more upgrades
>> | for XP, and even the vital security updates will stop in about two
>> | years: April 2009. In short, all of us are going to face a choice
>> | sooner or later: switch to Vista or to Macintosh or to Linux. There
>> | are good arguments for each of those choices.
>> `----
>>
>> http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2007/03/hasta_la_vista.html
>
> Microsoft Windows: The Frankenstein's Monster
> of Operating Systems.
>
> And I do mean monster, in the Mary Shelley sense. Andrew
> Schulman goes into some detail about LBA32 being slipped
> into Windows for Workgroups, for example; there were hints
> in the API some time back about WinInet being replaced
> with WinHTTP, and Microsoft is on record -- somewhere --
> regarding WinFS and WinFX. The former will eventually
> replace their NTFS handling, presumably (or layer on top),
> and the latter was supposed to replace Win32.
>
> And of course Microsoft's, erm, borrowing code from
> somewhere in the BSD graveyard is well known.
>
> It's a bit like replacing the meatballs in one's soup
> with flank steak strips while one is eating it. At least
> with Linux (or FreeBSD or any of the other Unixes and
> Unix-like stuff) one has a fighting chance of ensuring
> that the soup doesn't drip all over one's bib while the
> meat's being replaced.
*LOL*
Good one. [NB:] Sorry I don't reply more often. I read everything.
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