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Re: "Windows 7" Just an Improved Vista

On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:15:19 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 21:56:17 -0400, DFS wrote:
> 
>> nessuno wrote:
>>> On Sep 1, 4:16 pm, Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o'
>>>> wisdom:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> ____/ Terry Porter on Tuesday 01 September 2009 22:05 : \____
>>>>
>>>>>> I don't know about you Marti, but I rekon the Windows 7 hype is
>>>>>> just so much better than the Windows Vista hype ?
>> 
>> rekon = reckon
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>>>> I think it's about the same. I posted a tonne of material about
>>>>> Vista in 2006.
>> 
>> hmmm... it was released to general availability in 2007.  Another Linux
>> idiot jumping the gun and blabbing about Windows betas and release
>> candidates.
> 
> They have to start the FUD machine early. Problem is nobody but Linux
> freaks are listening.

Linux freaks.. like Dell and HP?

>> 
>>>>> It was hyped, hyped, hyped... bl00dy going to "hammer the last nail
>>>>> into Linux' coffin," to paraphrase the WinTrolls.
>>>>
>>>> The Wintrolls always say that.
>> 
>> 
>> And where is Linux now, and how many OEMs/models is it sold on?  Buried
>> deep in its cheap pine box of a coffin, and sold on hardly any OEM
>> systems.
> 
> It's still on life support at around 1.0 percent of the desktop market.

OS X on life support at around 5% of the market.

> Couple that with the fact that Linux is free and one has to wonder
> exactly how bad Linux really is or is perceived to be by the average
> consumer.

You continue to sing your one note song showing you dishonest 
cluelessness.

> 
> 
>> And where is Vista now, and how many OEMs/models is it sold on? 
>> Thriving and running on approx 20% of user desktops, and sold on
>> virtually all OEM systems.
> 
> I'm not a fan of Vista (for DAW reasons), however the statistics can't
> be argued with.
> 
> That being said, my daughter's Gateway Laptop with Vista has been
> running flawlessly for over a year now.


-- 
Rick

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