On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 00:36 -0700, Bob Elzer wrote:
> They probably just layed off the Vista People :-)
>
They can't lay off the Vista people. Who would repackage Vista into
Windows 7 and call it "new and different"?
Windows 7 is to Vista as Obama is to Bush. (No different)
>
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P Rufle
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 8:07 AM
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Subject: Re: OT: Microsoft layoffs
> For most people, a P4 running XP is all they will need for the rest of
> their life in all honesty, until the
Crossover was very good for a number of things.
the issues i had was trying to get some of the cisco apps to run, they
may be java but id be durned to get them to work in anything but a VM,
and then i needed to run the blackberry software and that ran in wine,
but i didnt get the USB transaltion t
I have had decent luck with crossover. It is not free software (but it was
free as in beer for a day) I don't actually do much with it as I have been
clean from windows so long I actually had to go seek out apps to install in
it because I didn't use any windows apps. I was able to run googles new
b
Honestly i liked vista, i ran the beta and it was weird but there were
a number of thigns, the weird started to fade away as MS released
backwards compatability patches and software developers wrote their
code to be more compatible. Windows 7 is looking to fix a few of my
bigger complaints of Vista
Yeah, I helped an ex of mine buy a laptop and she kept asking if she
really needed Windows and saying that she wanted to delete it. Not
because she didn't like it, she didn't realize it was the OS.. or
really even understand what that meant.
-Joe
James Finstrom wrote:
> Just a side note on pe
> For most people, a P4 running XP is all they will need for the rest
> of their life in all honesty, until the machine dies on them.
That means that once you get a person to go with an FLOSS solution they
also will not stray. I would also be interested to know if those SSD in
netbooks will make
t layed off the Vista People :-)
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> [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of keith
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> I think we tend to look at Microsoft and a $150 license fe
They probably just layed off the Vista People :-)
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smith
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Subject: Re: OT: Microsoft
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 09:10 -0800, keith smith wrote:
>
> I think we tend to look at Microsoft and a $150 license fee for XP or
> Vista as a lot of money. There are other costs to consider. What is
> your time worth?
>
http://www.crn.com/software/212902058
quotes the following prices in
I gotta say, I think you put too much weight on
piracy. As has been mentioned around here before, most people are very
happy with their older machines and see no need to upgrade either
hardware or software. For most people, a P4 running XP is all they will
need for the rest of their life in all
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 09:10 -0800, keith smith wrote:
> I think we tend to look at Microsoft and a $150 license fee for XP or
> Vista as a lot of money. There are other costs to consider. What is
> your time worth?
Neither XP nor Vista gets $150 for Microsoft if OEM. Only the retail
versio
Yes :) Apple figured that trick out a long time ago (grin)
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Jerry Davis wro
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:41:16 -0700
JD Austin wrote:
> If I were Microsoft I'd use OSS as a jump off point, slap a pretty user
> interface on it and sell it with support.
OS X
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Most people would still buy their software provided that it was priced
reasonably.
Microsoft Office ***upgrade*** version is over $300.
If I were Microsoft I'd use OSS as a jump off point, slap a pretty user
interface on it and sell it with support.
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Subject: Re: OT: Microsoft layoffs
To: "Main PLUG discussion list"
Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009, 9:41 AM
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 09:26 -0700, James Finstrom wrote:
> http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/microsoft-layoffs-live-msft
>
> I lived a short while in Washington and
I think we tend to look at Microsoft and a $150 license fee for XP or Vista as
a lot of money. There are other costs to consider. What is your time worth?
Most people do not have the need nor the desire to learn Linux.
I personally like the Windows operating system for my desk top. I run Li
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 09:26 -0700, James Finstrom wrote:
> http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/microsoft-layoffs-live-msft
>
> I lived a short while in Washington and knew many Microsoft employees
> so in a general sense Microsoft laying off 5000 people sucks but in
> another sense I would like to
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