Valid point. And... I did not claim that Grandma -could- install any other
OS...
Lang
"NoStop" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Lang Murphy wrote:
>
>> Andy,
>>
>> And... for all those Linux geeks who are getting ready to flame me; save
>> the bandwidth... I have no problem with Linux as an OS. It's great, if ur
>> a geek. And spare me the "my grandmother is running SuSE without issue."
>> responses. Yeah, Grandma is running SuSE because you set it up for her.
>> Give Grandma a SuSE CD and ask her to install and -configure- the OS...
>> well, ah, no?
>>
> Give Grandma Windows XP or Vista and have her install it from scratch and
> get it working and come back and let us know how she made out. Oh, and
> don't forget to give her the disk that came with her mobo, so she can get
> those drivers installed also. And do make sure Grandma knows about and can
> go out and get all those condoms she'll need to pile on her Windoze
> machine
> to "protect" it against the 200,000 malwares out there in the wild
> targeting her Windoze box. Of course she'll want to run some apps on that
> Windoze box, but getting those all installed is beyond the scope of this
> posting. :-)
>
> Cheers.
>
>
>> Lang
>>
>> "Andyistic" <abdyistic@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23pQcDvfWHHA.4632@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> As you all know, I am a strong supporter of Vista (albeit the stiff
>>> price), and was amused when I came along this webpage:
>>> http://badvista.fsf.org
>>>
>>> How do they expect to promote this idea and what makes them think that a
>>> company like Microsft can be successfully boycotted?
>>>
>>> I agree that Vista does have it's bad moments, but all versions of
>>> Windows do.
>>> In fact, all operating systems do. It's really a matter of how advanced
>>> such a system is.
>>>
>>> The way I see it, there's nothing worse than impeding the progress of
>>> useful technology, so doing this "Let's not use Vista" thing is a step
>>> in
>>> the wrong direction, since trying to instal and use systems such as
>>> Vista
>>> encourages hardware manufacturers to keep improving their products. Who
>>> wants to stop that from happening?
>>>
>>> -- Andy
>>>
>>> P.S. I've decided that a problem within Vista that causes one to feel
>>> disappointed is known as a Vistappointment.
>>> I suppose it could also mean an appointment involving Vista.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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