____/ Sean Inglis on Friday 21 September 2007 22:15 : \____
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:27:12 +0100, Doug Mentohl wrote:
>
>> "I couldn't honestly say why I decided to upgrade my desktop machine
>> from Windows 2000 to Windows XP Service Pack 2 in the first place"
>>
>> "The installation took about 30 minutes to chumble through my settings
>> until the last reboot, when the computer comes up as a proper XP
>> machine. Then it took about 30 seconds until the next reboot. And 30
>> seconds more to the one after that, and the one after that ... I could
>> not get the machine to start at all"
>>
>> "Every time I failed to get the computer to reboot, another method would
>> suggest itself, and I had to try it just to see if it worked"
>>
>> "If I tried to hammer different shaped pegs into different shaped holes,
>> people would think me odder than if I merely sit up till 1.30am
>> rebooting my computer.
>>
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/06/windows.microsoft
>
>
>
> It's all a question of emphasis
>
> Not: Windows just *works*
>
> But: Windoes *just* works
Heh. I saw that in a Groklaw sig a couple of weeka ago, but commas were used
rather than emphasis.
Sometimes you don't know what "works" means until you meet something better.
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