On Saturday 19 February 2005 03:26 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 07:34, rikona wrote: > > Perhaps, but the number of PO'd people is relatively small, and M$ > > really doesn't have to worry about them too much. They are extending > > their political (and media) influence a lot, and that may be more > > effective in keeping 'the linux enemy' at bay. In another era, the M$ > > solution would be to send the PO'd people off to the gas chambers. > > > > I think we'll be hearing more bad stuff, especially when longhorn > > arrives. Bend over, and get ready for the long horn. :-)) > > There is a growing angst towards M$ - and I'm getting to see it "on the > streets". Many small biz owners and home owners (from 35 and above) are > getting sick of the constant cycle of upgrading. > > I just finished building a brand new system (P4 3.0ghz + 1gb RAM) for a > psychologist customer; after all was said and done, the machine happily > at his home, he was surprised that XP didn't "fly" like he expected it > to. I explained to him the bloat, the bad construct - which he did > understand. He was rather happy with running his biofeedback > applications through Win98 which DID fly - but lo and behold, Win98 > drivers do not exist for his laptop, office machine and home machine, so > it's effectively useless. The folks that build his applications have > forced him to upgrade as well. > > After explaining further about the "future" - Longhorn - and it's hunger > for even MORE higher end hardware and the likes, I showed him my ever > present bootable liveCD of Knoppix and Ubuntu - which DID fly quite > well. Ah. Even on the laptop, it flew. He likes the idea of running > either the new Win4Lin or VMWare - as long as the hardware is > accessible. He also likes the fact that no longer would have have to > shell out heaps for WinXP and other associated applications. One time > one off. > > He's not the only one. I have a heap of customers that are sick of their > machines being down or useless due to bugs/virus/trojans/spyware...the > only think keeping them down is their teenagers who are "hooked" on > things like MSN and the likes...(GAIM does still have a way to go). > > I'm hoping that by the time Longborn hits the streets, I'll have a nice > comfy permanent job somewhere in a linux/unix environment. Spoken like a True Lord of the Drunken Penguins > > -- > stephen kuhn > mobile: 0410-728-389 > illawarra and regional new south wales > ----------------------------------------------- > GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives > 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. > Registered Linux User # 267497 > ----------------------------------------------- > David Letterman's "Things we can be proud of as Americans": * Greatest > number of citizens who have actually boarded a UFO * Many newspapers > feature "JUMBLE" * Hourly motel rates * Vast majority of Elvis movies > made here * Didn't just give up right away during World War II like some > countries we could mention * Goatees & Van Dykes thought to be worn only > by weenies * Our well-behaved golf professionals * Fabulous babes coast > to coast
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