On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:20:12 +0000, [H]omer wrote:
> Verily I say unto thee, that John Locke spake thusly:
>> On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:20:14 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 Beta
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>>> | Windows lives and dies by its service packs. I can't recall the |
>>> last initial release of any Windows product that didn't have at |
>>> least some problems.
>>
>> There are many people who feel that Vista is fundamentally flawed.
>> Therefore no amount of service packs is gonna fix the problem if the
>> problems lie in basic design of this beast.
>
> Actually Microsoft already have a service pack for Vista that fixes most
> of those fundamental flaws ... it's called XP. Of course XP has a few of
> its /own/ fundamental flaws, but to a typical Windows user at least they
> are tolerable, compared to that monumental disaster called Vista.
Perhaps XP SP3 will extend the life of XP until Windows 7 is released
sometime in 2009/2010 thus eclipsing Vista. I would view this as an
opportunity in the meantime for GNU Linux to grasp a bigger share of the
desktop but it will be a uphill battle and the beast doesn't play fair.
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and God said "let Tesla be", and then there was light
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