Too bad they don't spend some time on quality instead of the way it looks. Compare it to Linux or Apple. Windows is garbage. The only reason that it exists is because of the monopoly.
Yesterday I had to call the Indians 2 times (the call to India was dropped the first time after I had entered all the numbers) Why do I have to 'activate' XP after upgrading the hard drive? This copy of XP is registered to me. Why is it that I have to call, be placed on hold for 15 minutes and enter a 100 digit number to get a new 100 digit number? All this does is harass their clients. There is absolutely no need for it. When you activate over the Internet, they get the product key and an IP. If I try to activate the code 3 times in one year with the same IP I think they could reasonably assume that his is not a counterfeit code and it more than likely due to a computer upgrade. Also, they could probably get some kind of number from the CPU & hard drive so they could even tell that it is the same computer with a different hard drive. Surely the largest, richest software company in the world could do something to stop hassling obvious legal users. Those calls must cost M$ something. They could probably even increase their bottom line some more with some intelligence in the software. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Leafe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 8:53 AM Subject: Re: [NF] Make XP Look like Vista - Excellent! On Jul 10, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Dave Crozier wrote: > I'm running it on my XP now and it looks really good. Only one problem > found, the Folder names in my Outlook (2003) are truncated by about > half a > character. Apart from That I've got transparent windows and a realy > cool > looking desktop. I always love how new versions of Windows distinguish themselves by not looking/working the same as the previous versions, yet Windows users whine about hard it is to use Linux because it doesn't look or work exactly like Windows does! Why would anyone want to switch to the Vista look when XP was supposedly such an improvement over 2000? -- Ed Leafe -- http://leafe.com -- http://dabodev.com [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
