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____/ High Plains Thumper on Wednesday 03 December 2008 13:56 : \____
> Fritz Wuehler wrote:
>
>> I just bought a new desktop PC on which I run Kubuntu 8.10
>> with KDE 4.1. It works perfectly and it's blazingly fast and
>> to my amazement it only uses 314 MB of physical RAM when it's
>> fully booted up (out of the available 2GB RAM). I find that
>> amazing if you consider that Windows Vista need 2GB of RAM to
>> work at any usable speed.
>>
>> I mean, isn't it obvious from this example alone that
>> Microsoft is toast? And I'm not even discussing the brilliant
>> KParts technology in depth in KDE which is everything that
>> Micrsoft's OLE should have been, but wasn't due to its
>> horrendous complexity.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure in a couple of years most businesses will have
>> switched to Ubuntu and they'll never look back.
>
> I agree. I find Ubuntu boots up quicker than XP. Even though
> the desktop may appears slightly quicker than Ubuntu, the hard
> disk continues to grind a couple minutes after login. Until that
> activity subsides, system is not usable.
>
> OTOH regarding Vista:
>
> During Thanksgiving Holiday, a friend brought over their laptop
> with Vista. They don't like it, too clunky.
>
> Now I can understand what is meant by *unloved OS*
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/24/steve_ballmer_vista_capable_testify/
>
> [quote]
> Plaintiffs in the case allege that Microsoft artificially
> inflated demand in the run-up to Christmas 2006, by falsely
> advertising that PCs would be capable of running the full version
> of the firm’s delayed Vista operating system.
>
> Redmond’s “Windows Vista Capable” labels first appeared on
> computers in April 2006, even though the firm’s *unloved OS*
> didn’t get a general release until January last year.
> [/quote]
Maybe they can also depose him for putting words in OEMs' mouths, which amounts
to harmful kickbacks.
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