Re: OT:Fw: Run Old Versions of Microsoft with Windows XP Pro!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:39:05 +0100 begin Zoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: At 12:09 13/11/2002 -0500, you wrote: Windows NT and Windows 98 are no longer preinstalled on PC's. Downgrade Rights provide companies that are not currently able to migrate to a more current operating system the ability to use the company's preferred OS until there is a more efficient time to migrate. When the company is ready to migrate to Windows XP Pro, there are no additional costs or licensing requirements. *** Ofcourse not, the licenses have allready been paied for. The W2k or whatever other CD they will use and XP's that came with the PC. What is the gain here except a direct one for MS and some time bought for the company? In the mean time MS' user statistics show the enormous popularity of the new XP system... which the sheep have paied for but are not using. Great, makes you realy love the IT future seen by MS... Not to mention, most new laptops built since XP don't have drivers for Win2k, etc. Tke this along with the We'll Break Your Apps announcement and with no imagination at all you can see they'll force everyone onto XP in no time. Because apps will not run on anything but XP. Ciao, David A. Bandel - -- Focus on the dream, not the competition. -- Nemesis Racing Team motto -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE91N2V3uVcotqGMQcRAoVUAKCTiC3Liv+KDoVPX8Bj9R8DocmjOQCfW3BZ v8mEAFBUXsAzxNKaUPuPIZo= =dp3I -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT:Fw: Run Old Versions of Microsoft with Windows XP Pro!
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:42:13AM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:39:05 +0100 begin Zoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: At 12:09 13/11/2002 -0500, you wrote: Windows NT and Windows 98 are no longer preinstalled on PC's. Downgrade Rights provide companies that are not currently able to migrate to a more current operating system the ability to use the company's preferred OS until there is a more efficient time to migrate. When the company is ready to migrate to Windows XP Pro, there are no additional costs or licensing requirements. This is proving to be a major problem for companies who have contracts with school systems requiring multi-year support, and where there are strict budget restraints. Another problem is that much of the ``educational'' software doesn't run on XP in any case. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``...I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter.'' -- Nick Petreley ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT:Fw: Run Old Versions of Microsoft with Windows XP Pro!
At 12:09 13/11/2002 -0500, you wrote: Windows NT and Windows 98 are no longer preinstalled on PC's. Downgrade Rights provide companies that are not currently able to migrate to a more current operating system the ability to use the company's preferred OS until there is a more efficient time to migrate. When the company is ready to migrate to Windows XP Pro, there are no additional costs or licensing requirements. *** Ofcourse not, the licenses have allready been paied for. The W2k or whatever other CD they will use and XP's that came with the PC. What is the gain here except a direct one for MS and some time bought for the company? In the mean time MS' user statistics show the enormous popularity of the new XP system... which the sheep have paied for but are not using. Great, makes you realy love the IT future seen by MS... Zoran. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT:Fw: Run Old Versions of Microsoft with Windows XP Pro!
I thought just installing XP was an automatic downgrade G. Microsoft has something new -- downgrade rights What's next ? Chris Kassopulo +++ Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:27:05 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Run Old Versions of Microsoft with Windows XP Pro! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Run Old Versions of Microsoft with Windows XP Pro! -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT:Fw: Run Old Versions of Microsoft with Windows XP Pro!
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 08:43:39PM -0600, Jack Berger wrote: I've heard you can possibly damage your chip set by doing this. Yup. You need to get a new power supply that's compatible with the newer smoke.dll. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass; he is actually ill. Worse, he is incurable. H.L. Mencken ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
