On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:55:18 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
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>An Open Letter to Microsoft: Re-Release Windows XP
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>| It's time to sober up on Windows Vista. This just isn't working out,
>| and your users are getting frustrated to the point where they're souring
>| on Windows altogether. In case you haven't seen some of the more
>| noteworthy blog posts on this topic, I refer you to Chris Pirillo,
>| Scot's Newsletter, or Spend Matters. Or check out the recent bug
>| reports regarding product activation and security flaws. This is all
>| stuff I managed to dredge up that was written yesterday.
>|
>| People are unhappy with Vista. Really unhappy. And though I know Microsoft
>| has its own form of Steve Jobs' reality distortion field, it certainly
>| can't keep you from seeing at least some of the sobering sales figures and
>| the crush of disappointing reviews of Vista. I don't want to dredge up all
>| the reasons people are unhappy with Vista in this letter. I want to talk
>| about what you ought to do stop a mass migration to Linux and the Mac.
>| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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>http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/18428/an-open-letter-to-microsoft-re-release-windows-xp
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>Recent:
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>An open letter to Bill Gates
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>| Dear Bill Gates
>|
>| Give me back my weekend. I bought a new Windows Vista laptop -- and
>| that's when the trouble began.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| But what really grates is that your system is incompatible with two
>| of the vital tools of my trade. Vista refuses to load the software
>| for my newish Olympus digital recorder. And here?s what takes the
>| biscuit. Vista rejects my HP IPAQ handheld device ? even though the
>| software for that was created by Microsoft!
>|
>| So in order to put Vista at the centre of what I do, I would have to
>| buy hundreds of pounds of new hardware.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| My conclusion? For all the expensive and much-extended gestation,
>| Vista was not ready for commercial release. And, just so you know,
>| I've never once had a comparably horrible experience with the
>| Google boys.
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>http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2007/02/an_open_letter_to_bill_gates.html
>http://tinyurl.com/2tlc8w
Wait a minute!!! Please don't suggest survival solutions to MS!!!
Let Them Die.
Linux is ready to fill all voids.
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