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Bashing the Microsoft bashers...
Excuse me, but even though you show that you're being sarcastic, you are just as guilty of bashing as the people who are legitimately sick and tired of having to deal with Microsoft's BS.

My own business has almost 100% Windows users as customers, and we do have to do a lot of work on those machines. The fact of the matter is that even if they switched to Linux tomorrow (Or BSD or Mac OSX) there'd be almost as much business, because no OS is perfect.

I still think that of all the OSes out there, Windows is bottom-of-the-barrel, for two reasons: Microsoft assumes everyone is a pirate (guilt until proven innocent) and they don't accept said proof of innocence. XP will be supported (according to Microsoft themselves) until 2011, so I expect a lot of folks will put off Vista until they're forced to buy it. As for me? Doing research into which Linux/Unix flavor has the best mix of support for my hardware and computing needs.

(Yes, I'll lose use of thousands of dollars worth of software until Linux distros get Windows emulation locked fully, at least to DirectX 9, but that's part of the whole picture. I will be going to the other OS completely; dual-booting into Windows has proven to be a pain in the butt in the past. (in one extreme case, every time I booted into Windows, it corrupted the partition table.)
Posted by: Raymond Danner   Posted on: 02/27/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Finger Pointing  D. T. Schmitz | 02/26/07
There's only one place to point the finger...  BitTwiddler | 02/26/07
The reason  frgough | 02/26/07
Great example  ejhonda | 02/26/07
As if...  shawkins | 02/26/07
No Only VISTA  jmsfmtex | 02/26/07
Big businesses have corporate keys that unlock as many PCs as they please.  HypnoToad72 | 02/26/07
Get your facts!  andrej770 | 02/26/07
Linux DOES work  macoafi | 02/27/07
replacement with Volunteer dollars and he be enterprise useable  A-USA-Smith | 02/27/07
Just the facts, man  dimonic | 02/27/07
A bit of counterpoint  Insight Driver | 02/27/07
Over the line?  jmschattke@... | 02/27/07
Yes, They  Krazyken39 | 02/27/07
vista  somar1 | 02/27/07
gamble on a quarter  Hrothgar - PCLinuxOS User | 03/05/07
Microsoft & Windows  pvaino@... | 02/27/07
That looks terrible!  discotecaro@... | 02/27/07
Guilty until proved innocent  ekivemark | 02/27/07
uh huh, uh huh . . .  brian ansorge | 02/27/07
It's about the money  bill@... | 02/27/07
Yea  Krazyken39 | 02/27/07
Surprised?  gjbromwell@... | 02/27/07
How Many?  timgesner | 02/27/07
Due Diligence  Grantarchy | 02/27/07
Bashing the Microsoft bashers...  Raymond Danner | 02/27/07
MS=Greedy, YOU=Grammarless  Don Dean | 03/02/07
ROFL @ "Control Panel is looking sparse."  Patt_ur_hole@... | 02/27/07
If this is VISTA on a bad day Im gone.....  carlsf@... | 02/27/07
Justice  s_carter2000@... | 02/27/07
Why point up with it  rtb | 02/27/07
Dual boot  ZZZ1 | 02/27/07
This Whole Vista Bashing thing!  jaysson@... | 02/27/07
Anybody try launching an exe through explorer or prompt in reduced mode?  GreatInca | 02/28/07
Whatever happened to freedom from unlawful search and seizure?  D_Flahive2000@... | 03/03/07
Vista? I don't need no steenking Veesta !  mike_flood | 03/07/07
And Still the Sheople Buy It...  msspurlock2 | 03/28/07
a buggy piece of intrusion  jguyp725@... | 05/03/07
RE: Windows Vista  garetjax@... | 05/23/08

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