Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP

2010-08-11 Thread Keith Johnson
take away the food, you make people hungry again. It's pity that Apple costs a billion times more than the hardware's worth and linux requires a reasonable tech mind to run effectively. Bosco --- On Wed, 8/11/10, Keith Johnson wrote: From: Keith Johnson Subject: Re: [scifinoir2

Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP

2010-08-11 Thread Bosco Bosco
llion times more than the hardware's worth and linux requires a reasonable tech mind to run effectively. Bosco --- On Wed, 8/11/10, Keith Johnson wrote: From: Keith Johnson Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com

Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP

2010-08-11 Thread Keith Johnson
artin Baxter" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 5:36:17 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP Makes me angry as well, Keith. Just a few minutes ago, my niece, running Vista on her laptop, had lost all soun

Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP

2010-08-11 Thread Mr. Worf
>> ----- Original Message - >> From: "Martin Baxter" >> To: "SciFiNoir2" >> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 2:58:45 PM >> Subject: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP >> >> >> >> Micr

Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP

2010-08-11 Thread Martin Baxter
-- > From: "Martin Baxter" > To: "SciFiNoir2" > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 2:58:45 PM > Subject: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP > > > > Microsoft isn't particularly pleased about the continuing

Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP

2010-08-11 Thread Keith Johnson
t experience. Ducats prevent me from going that route, but I am looking forward to it... - Original Message - From: "Martin Baxter" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 5:41:49 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to

Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP

2010-08-11 Thread Martin Baxter
Great foresight! On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Mr. Worf wrote: > > > I thought I'd toss that in just in case they tried to use it as an excuse. > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Martin Baxter wrote: > >> >> >> I doubt that these sorts have thought so far as to consider the economy. >> Just

Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP

2010-08-11 Thread Mr. Worf
I thought I'd toss that in just in case they tried to use it as an excuse. On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Martin Baxter wrote: > > > I doubt that these sorts have thought so far as to consider the economy. > Just their own bottom lines. > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Mr. Worf wrote: > >>

Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP

2010-08-11 Thread Martin Baxter
I doubt that these sorts have thought so far as to consider the economy. Just their own bottom lines. On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Mr. Worf wrote: > > > I'm surprised that they didn't mention Sp3 at all in the article. Is it > because there are still a lot of people that didn't upgrade to sp

Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP

2010-08-11 Thread Martin Baxter
x. > > > - Original Message - > From: "Adrianne Brennan" > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 3:48:16 PM > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows > XP > > > > Then the

Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP

2010-08-11 Thread Mr. Worf
I'm surprised that they didn't mention Sp3 at all in the article. Is it because there are still a lot of people that didn't upgrade to sp3? I can understand M$'s point of view on this but I still think that their actions are a bad choice. You cannot force people to upgrade if they are happy with w

Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP

2010-08-11 Thread Keith Johnson
From: "Adrianne Brennan" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 3:48:16 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP Then they need to stop putting out computers with it. I bought my netbook from Verizon

Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP

2010-08-11 Thread Adrianne Brennan
truggle, XP is a godsend. I find it appalling at what > they're trying to do here. > > - Original Message - > From: "Martin Baxter" > To: "SciFiNoir2" > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 2:58:45 PM > Subject: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret

Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP

2010-08-11 Thread Keith Johnson
uot;SciFiNoir2" Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 2:58:45 PM Subject: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP Microsoft isn't particularly pleased about the continuing success of Windows XP, which has more than twice the installed base of Win