Re: So help save Windows XP

 

"Frank" <fb@sto.clm> wrote in message

news:4853f99f$0$5169$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...

>>

>>>>>>>You can't be as stupid as you seem, can you?

>>>>>>>Frank

>>>>>>

>>>>>>No Frank. That is the one thing that you can do better than anybody

>>>>>>else. It's your forte.

>>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>>ss=Still Stupid I see!

>>>>>Frank

>>>>

>>>>Are you really some sort of demented bot?

>>>>

>>>

>>>Are you really as stupid as you seem?

>>>Frank

>>

>> Q.E.D

>>

>>

> F.Y.A.

> Frank

 

For Your Amusement? Yeah, I suppose you are slightly amusing. It's a bit

like watching a freakshow.

 

ss.

Re: So help save Windows XP

 

Rex Ballard wrote:

> On Jun 13, 10:02 pm, Milt <netr...@nospammiltsweb.com> wrote:

>> cheley_bonstel...@live.com wrote:

>>> So help save Windows XP

>> Save it? Its not going anywhere, you will still be able to use it for

>> years to come. Heck, you could still use Windows 3.1 if you wanted to,

>> no one is stopping you. Same with Windows 2000, NT, 98, ME, 95....

>

> Actually, Windows 98, 2000, ME, and XP OEM licenses are tied to the

> specific machine being purchased. In other words, when you decide to

> throw out that old 600 Mhz Pentium that had Windows 2000 on it, you

> can't use that license on your new Core2 Duo machine.

 

You're confusing the verbs "can" and "may".

 

Alias

Re: So help save Windows XP

 

HeyBub wrote:

> Canuck57 wrote:

>> "David" <mcdonald606a@yahoo.com> wrote in message

>> news:ccf7cc1b-e80d-4ce8-8003-3f27e0b68c79@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...

>>

>>> just to get the same performance you currently get with Windows XP.

>> You are doing good. I never got that far.

>>

>>> Having a " Vista Only " PC world is delegating many PC's of the world

>>> into fancy screen-saver endowed paperweights.

>> Not really, Ubuntu works on it just great.

>

> So does a blow-up doll, for those who prefer the sweet caress of vinyl to

> that of the real thing.

>

>

>

 

What is it about these MS fanboys and their weird sexual fantasies? I

get the feeling that none of them ever get laid.

 

Alias

Re: So help save Windows XP

 

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> writes:

> Too late:

> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsxp/future.mspx

 

,----

| We also want to underscore that we're not, as some people have asserted,

| "pulling the plug" on our popular operating system. Let us be clear:

| Although Windows XP won't be sold in stores, Microsoft and its partners

| will continue to offer technical support for Windows XP for months and

| years to come. In fact, Microsoft plans to support Windows XP until

| 2014.

`----

 

 

--

"Yes, I am a nymshifting troll. I used to be called Rafael, but since the operation I prefer to be called Robin T Cox."

High Plains Shifter, COLA.

Re: So help save Windows XP

 

In article <d78a0e09-80c7-4fa7-8b7e-537e7d9e00df@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,

Rex Ballard <rex.ballard@gmail.com> wrote:

>

>Actually, Windows 98, 2000, ME, and XP OEM licenses are tied to the

>specific machine being purchased.

 

They're tied to the hardware. If you upgrade the machine the

license remains valid. Upgrade is undefined.

Re: So help save Windows XP

 

"Alias" <iamalias@NOSPAMPLEASEgmail.com> wrote in message

news:g30tto$p46$1@aioe.org...

> dennis@home wrote:

>>

>>

>> "Alias" <iamalias@NOSPAMPLEASEgmail.com> wrote in message

>> news:g30k6v$htc$1@aioe.org...

>>

>>

>>> What you can't do with Ubuntu:

>>>

>>> Worry about:

>>> WPA and WGA raising their ugly heads,

>>> DRM,

>>

>> Its quite amusing alias posting about DRM being a problem..

>>

>> he is currently posting in the Ubuntu groups for a solution to preventing

>> people from editing forms he wants them to be able to fill in online..

>> the solution of course is DRM,

>

> No, it isn't and I don't want them to necessarily fill them out on line.

>

>> however he will just continue with his worthless comments and wont admit

>> that he can't solve his problem without some sort of DRM.

>

> You're wrong again. Forms don't exactly fit under intellectual property,

> doofus.

>

>> He wont solve it at all on Ubuntu so he will just have to accept that if

>> someone can display it on Ubuntu they can /edit/ it and print it.

>

> I want them to print it and edit part of it. You are assuming that my

> clients are computer savvy. They aren't.

>

> Of course, you only choose to comment on the one thing where you think you

> have a "gotcha" and ignore the rest of the post just like Frank, Spanky

> and Bill would but what else is new from the Windows fanboys camp?

 

I commented on the bit that makes *you* look stupid.

 

Let me know if you solve your problem so I can break it for you.

Re: So help save Windows XP

 

dennis@home wrote:

>

>

> "Alias" <iamalias@NOSPAMPLEASEgmail.com> wrote in message

> news:g30tto$p46$1@aioe.org...

>> dennis@home wrote:

>>>

>>>

>>> "Alias" <iamalias@NOSPAMPLEASEgmail.com> wrote in message

>>> news:g30k6v$htc$1@aioe.org...

>>>

>>>

>>>> What you can't do with Ubuntu:

>>>>

>>>> Worry about:

>>>> WPA and WGA raising their ugly heads,

>>>> DRM,

>>>

>>> Its quite amusing alias posting about DRM being a problem..

>>>

>>> he is currently posting in the Ubuntu groups for a solution to

>>> preventing people from editing forms he wants them to be able to fill

>>> in online..

>>> the solution of course is DRM,

>>

>> No, it isn't and I don't want them to necessarily fill them out on line.

>>

>>> however he will just continue with his worthless comments and wont

>>> admit that he can't solve his problem without some sort of DRM.

>>

>> You're wrong again. Forms don't exactly fit under intellectual

>> property, doofus.

>>

>>> He wont solve it at all on Ubuntu so he will just have to accept that

>>> if someone can display it on Ubuntu they can /edit/ it and print it.

>>

>> I want them to print it and edit part of it. You are assuming that my

>> clients are computer savvy. They aren't.

>>

>> Of course, you only choose to comment on the one thing where you think

>> you have a "gotcha" and ignore the rest of the post just like Frank,

>> Spanky and Bill would but what else is new from the Windows fanboys camp?

>

> I commented on the bit that makes *you* look stupid.

 

Yeah, what you lamely thought was a "gotcha". You failed which, of

course, makes *you* look stupid.

>

> Let me know if you solve your problem so I can break it for you.

 

The problem's solved. Now, care to comment about the rest of the post? I

didn't think so.

 

Alias

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:

> Too late:

>

> Windows XP: The future:

> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsxp/future.mspx

 

Coming Soon: Windows Vista - The Future ...

 

(Or Windows 7: Did You Know?)

--

Facts are sacred ... but comment is free

Re: So help save Windows XP

 

DS wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:34:54 -0700, dave wrote:

>

>> DS wrote:

>>>>> into making Good old reliable Windows XP available for The

>>>>> Foreseeable Future..

>>>>>

>>>>> Thank You ..

>>>>>

>>>> There is a superior operating system, (for everyone but gamers and

>>>> video editors)

>>> Why not video editors ?

>>>

>>> http://www.linux.com/feature/60624

>> http://www.linux.com/articles/60624#commentthis

>

> And that means ?

 

That means for video editors Ubuntu is not a superior operating system

(yet).

Re: So help save Windows XP

 

"dennis@home" <dennis@killspam.kicks-ass.net> wrote in message

news:0E4BE513-DACC-4F9E-A627-5A89EC6E12A6@microsoft.com...

>

> Its quite amusing alias posting about DRM being a problem..

>

> he is currently posting in the Ubuntu groups for a solution to preventing

> people from editing forms he wants them to be able to fill in online..

> the solution of course is DRM,

 

LOL. What a moron.

 

ss.

Re: So help save Windows XP

 

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:17:45 +0200, Hadron wrote:

> -

> "Yes, I am a nymshifting troll. I used to be called Rafael, but since the operation I prefer to be called Robin T Cox."

> High Plains Shifter, COLA.

 

What is it with COLA Linux loons and transgender ruminations?

First it was Rex running around in a dress.

Then Roy (Racine) does some weird sex change stuff.

Now we have High Plains Humper aka bobbin Robin, cutting off the wedding

tackle.

 

Linux sure seems to attract the oddballs.

 

 

 

--

Moshe Goldfarb

Collector of soaps from around the globe.

Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:

http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/

Re: So help save Windows XP

 

"Alias" <iamalias@NOSPAMPLEASEgmail.com> wrote in message

news:g30vq8$vi4$1@aioe.org...

> dennis@home wrote:

>>

>>

>> "Alias" <iamalias@NOSPAMPLEASEgmail.com> wrote in message

>> news:g30tto$p46$1@aioe.org...

>>> dennis@home wrote:

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> "Alias" <iamalias@NOSPAMPLEASEgmail.com> wrote in message

>>>> news:g30k6v$htc$1@aioe.org...

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>> What you can't do with Ubuntu:

>>>>>

>>>>> Worry about:

>>>>> WPA and WGA raising their ugly heads,

>>>>> DRM,

>>>>

>>>> Its quite amusing alias posting about DRM being a problem..

>>>>

>>>> he is currently posting in the Ubuntu groups for a solution to

>>>> preventing people from editing forms he wants them to be able to fill

>>>> in online..

>>>> the solution of course is DRM,

>>>

>>> No, it isn't and I don't want them to necessarily fill them out on line.

>>>

>>>> however he will just continue with his worthless comments and wont

>>>> admit that he can't solve his problem without some sort of DRM.

>>>

>>> You're wrong again. Forms don't exactly fit under intellectual property,

>>> doofus.

>>>

>>>> He wont solve it at all on Ubuntu so he will just have to accept that

>>>> if someone can display it on Ubuntu they can /edit/ it and print it.

>>>

>>> I want them to print it and edit part of it. You are assuming that my

>>> clients are computer savvy. They aren't.

>>>

>>> Of course, you only choose to comment on the one thing where you think

>>> you have a "gotcha" and ignore the rest of the post just like Frank,

>>> Spanky and Bill would but what else is new from the Windows fanboys

>>> camp?

>>

>> I commented on the bit that makes *you* look stupid.

>

> Yeah, what you lamely thought was a "gotcha". You failed which, of course,

> makes *you* look stupid.

>

>>

>> Let me know if you solve your problem so I can break it for you.

>

> The problem's solved. Now, care to comment about the rest of the post? I

> didn't think so.

 

Go on then what was your solution?

>

> Alias

Re: So help save Windows XP

 

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:

> Too late: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsxp/future.mspx

 

 

I disagree a bit with that, the crucial factor was always extending

support. Another 6 years is a pretty good achievement in terms of

getting a big corporation to listen to customers. So instead of too late

maybe "Just in time" would be the key. Poor Vista sales are not just the

result of complaints, there is a small but noticeable financial crisis

in the US right now, we are both in the middle of it. Forecast of $5 a

gallon gas, a billion dollar loss of crops which will inflate food

prices, layoffs all around and no end in sight in Iraq means that if the

Government will not tighten their belts the public will do it for them.

MS will be smart to recognize this. People are not going to invest

$1000+ in a new computer unless they really can be confident it's

"Disposable" income.

Re: So help save Windows XP

 

In article <uvB4qvjzIHA.4816@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>,

HeyBub <heybub@gmail.com> wrote:

>

>So does a blow-up doll, for those who prefer the sweet caress of vinyl to

>that of the real thing.

 

Vinyl won't close out the joint accounts and run off to Cozumel

with her hairdresser.

Re: So help save Windows XP

 

the wharf rat wrote:

> In article <uvB4qvjzIHA.4816@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>,

> HeyBub <heybub@gmail.com> wrote:

>> So does a blow-up doll, for those who prefer the sweet caress of vinyl to

>> that of the real thing.

>

> Vinyl won't close out the joint accounts and run off to Cozumel

> with her hairdresser.

>

 

Nor will Lisa...

 

http://www.perfect-woman.com/en/index.php?video=0

Re: So help save Windows XP

 

Charlie Tame wrote:

> PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:

>> Too late: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsxp/future.mspx

>

>

> I disagree a bit with that, the crucial factor was always extending

> support. Another 6 years is a pretty good achievement in terms of

> getting a big corporation to listen to customers. So instead of too late

> maybe "Just in time" would be the key. Poor Vista sales are not just the

> result of complaints, there is a small but noticeable financial crisis

> in the US right now, we are both in the middle of it. Forecast of $5 a

> gallon gas, a billion dollar loss of crops which will inflate food

> prices, layoffs all around and no end in sight in Iraq means that if the

> Government will not tighten their belts the public will do it for them.

> MS will be smart to recognize this. People are not going to invest

> $1000+ in a new computer unless they really can be confident it's

> "Disposable" income.

 

Yeah, but a 1000 US Dollar computer is only 650 euros -)

 

Alias

Re: So help save Windows XP

 

Alias wrote:

> HeyBub wrote:

>> Canuck57 wrote:

>>> "David" <mcdonald606a@yahoo.com> wrote in message

>>> news:ccf7cc1b-e80d-4ce8-8003-3f27e0b68c79@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...

>>>

>>>> just to get the same performance you currently get with Windows XP.

>>> You are doing good. I never got that far.

>>>

>>>> Having a " Vista Only " PC world is delegating many PC's of the

>>>> world into fancy screen-saver endowed paperweights.

>>> Not really, Ubuntu works on it just great.

>>

>> So does a blow-up doll, for those who prefer the sweet caress of

>> vinyl to that of the real thing.

>>

>>

>>

>

> What is it about these MS fanboys and their weird sexual fantasies? I

> get the feeling that none of them ever get laid.

>

 

It's a metaphor (viz.).

Re: So help save Windows XP

 

Charlie Tame wrote:

> PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:

>> Too late: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsxp/future.mspx

>

> I disagree a bit with that, the crucial factor was always extending

> support. Another 6 years is a pretty good achievement in terms of

> getting a big corporation to listen to customers. So instead of too late

> maybe "Just in time" would be the key.

 

Apples & oranges. Windows Life Cycle policy (for WinXP) hasn't changed,

Charlie: WinXP SP3 will have Extended Support until 08 April 2014. Support

for WinXP SP2 ends 13 July 1010. More:

http://msmvps.com/blogs/donna/archive/2008/06/14/end-of-support-xp-service-pack-2.aspx

--

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)

MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002

AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net

DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

Re: So help save Windows XP

 

the wharf rat wrote:

> In article <uvB4qvjzIHA.4816@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>,

> HeyBub <heybub@gmail.com> wrote:

>> So does a blow-up doll, for those who prefer the sweet caress of vinyl to

>> that of the real thing.

>

> Vinyl won't close out the joint accounts and run off to Cozumel

> with her hairdresser.

>

 

 

Neither will a Golden Lab. Nor, when a Golden sh*ts on you, do you

have to hire a lawyer to clean it up.

Who says that Microsoft doesn't have a sense of humor?

 

"We've [Microsoft] spent more than a year consulting with our customers

and industry partners to ensure that we're doing the right thing. We

understand that not everyone may agree with our decision-just as not

everyone was happy to see Windows 95,

Windows 98, or Windows ME retire (OK, perhaps not ME)."

 

"OK, perhaps not ME?" :->

 

Alan

 

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:%23j3yRBkzIHA.4912@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> Too late:

>

> Windows XP: The future:

> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsxp/future.mspx

> --

> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)

> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002

> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net

> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

>

>

> cheley_bonstell88@live.com wrote:

>> XP Death Watch

>>

>>

>>

>> http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/27/XP-deathwatch-T-minus-five-weeks_1.html

>>

>> Even though it has had its own problems of late, Windows XP remains

>> the most-used version of Windows. The newest data from Web metrics

>> vendor Net Applications, for example,

>> pegs XP as driving 73 percent of the personal computers that went

>> online last month,

>>

>> five times the nearest competitor, Microsoft's own Windows Vista.

>>

>> Which is why an impending deadline five weeks from today is important.

>>

>> According to Microsoft, June 30 is the last day it will permit

>> retailers and OEMs to sell

>> the nearly seven-year-old operating system.

>>

>> [ Make your voice heard. Sign InfoWorld's 'Save Windows XP' petition

>> today. ]

>>

>>

>> http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/

>>

>>

>> You'll have questions as that date approaches,

>>

>> including whether the deadline will drive up prices (gouging,

>> anyone?)

>>

>> we plan to have the answers, starting with this FAQ and continuing

>> through the end of next month.

>>

>> How long until Microsoft shuts off the XP spigot? Five weeks from

>> today is the last day Microsoft

>>

>> will officially allow retailers to sell the old operating system, and

>> let major computer makers

>

"Alan" <somewhere@nospam.not> wrote in message

news:OxhOYwnzIHA.4040@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

> Who says that Microsoft doesn't have a sense of humor?

>

> "We've [Microsoft] spent more than a year consulting with our customers

> and industry partners to ensure that we're doing the right thing. We

> understand that not everyone may agree with our decision-just as not

> everyone was happy to see Windows 95,

> Windows 98, or Windows ME retire (OK, perhaps not ME)."

>

> "OK, perhaps not ME?" :->

 

I have very little experience of WinME, as there was a better contemporary

OS from Microsoft. It was irrelevant to serious users, enthusiasts and

businesses that had already moved to the NT line, so it was quite harmless

in comparison.

 

Microsoft will be making jokes like that about Vista one day, [hopefully, if

they get back on the ball]. In time, even the blinkered Vista fans will see

how much it has become more derided than wine.

 

I really do hope that Win7 will not be so disappointing.

 

ss.

> XP Death Watch

>

>

>

> http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/27/XP-deathwatch-T-minus-five-weeks_1.html

>

> Even though it has had its own problems of late, Windows XP remains

> the most-used version of Windows. The newest data from Web metrics

> vendor Net Applications, for example,

> pegs XP as driving 73 percent of the personal computers that went

> online last month,

>

> five times the nearest competitor, Microsoft's own Windows Vista.

>

> Which is why an impending deadline five weeks from today is important.

>

> According to Microsoft, June 30 is the last day it will permit

> retailers and OEMs to sell

> the nearly seven-year-old operating system.

>

> [ Make your voice heard. Sign InfoWorld's 'Save Windows XP' petition

> today. ]

>

>

> http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/

>

>

> You'll have questions as that date approaches,

>

> including whether the deadline will drive up prices (gouging,

> anyone?)

>

> we plan to have the answers, starting with this FAQ and continuing

> through the end of next month.

>

> How long until Microsoft shuts off the XP spigot? Five weeks from

> today is the last day Microsoft

>

> will officially allow retailers to sell the old operating system, and

> let major computer makers

 

You're out of date check it out again.

In article <4853ccec$0$30195$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,

DS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:25:36 +0000, the wharf rat wrote:

>

>> In article <Ot5dobdzIHA.5108@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, Hayden Kirk

>> <hayden@mobilepc.co.nz> wrote:

>>>

>>>My customers want a good 64bit system.

>>

>> Why?

>

>Possibly because that is what he recommends to them.

>

 

That's circular reasoning.

Re: So help save Windows XP

 

HeyBub wrote:

> Alias wrote:

>> HeyBub wrote:

>>> Canuck57 wrote:

>>>> "David" <mcdonald606a@yahoo.com> wrote in message

>>>> news:ccf7cc1b-e80d-4ce8-8003-3f27e0b68c79@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...

>>>>

>>>>> just to get the same performance you currently get with Windows XP.

>>>> You are doing good. I never got that far.

>>>>

>>>>> Having a " Vista Only " PC world is delegating many PC's of the

>>>>> world into fancy screen-saver endowed paperweights.

>>>> Not really, Ubuntu works on it just great.

>>> So does a blow-up doll, for those who prefer the sweet caress of

>>> vinyl to that of the real thing.

>>>

>>>

>>>

>> What is it about these MS fanboys and their weird sexual fantasies? I

>> get the feeling that none of them ever get laid.

>>

>

> It's a metaphor (viz.).

>

>

 

I know.

 

Alias

Re: So help save Windows XP

 

Alias wrote:

> Charlie Tame wrote:

>> PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:

>>> Too late:

>>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsxp/future.mspx

>>

>>

>> I disagree a bit with that, the crucial factor was always extending

>> support. Another 6 years is a pretty good achievement in terms of

>> getting a big corporation to listen to customers. So instead of too

>> late maybe "Just in time" would be the key. Poor Vista sales are not

>> just the result of complaints, there is a small but noticeable

>> financial crisis in the US right now, we are both in the middle of it.

>> Forecast of $5 a gallon gas, a billion dollar loss of crops which will

>> inflate food prices, layoffs all around and no end in sight in Iraq

>> means that if the Government will not tighten their belts the public

>> will do it for them. MS will be smart to recognize this. People are

>> not going to invest $1000+ in a new computer unless they really can be

>> confident it's "Disposable" income.

>

> Yeah, but a 1000 US Dollar computer is only 650 euros -)

>

> Alias

 

Well I don't want to stray too far off topic but Vista costs money and

people want to see an "Investment". Unfortunately Vista also demands new

hardware which is a further investment. The boss asks "What does it do

that our present system cannot do?"

 

"Well, explorer is as flakey as ever, no change there, the new search /

index service doesn't really work and it will require several hours per

employee in retraining - oh and we will need to buy faster machines to

get the same performance we got with XP because the new "Managed Code"

is much bigger and is interpreted rather than compiled."

 

"And the networking only works when it feels like it, our other systems

are okay but the Vista machines need constant attention, each "Update"

means we have to reconfigure everything else on the network just to keep

sharing files."

 

Not much of a sales pitch really...