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NEW THREAD: CRITICAL VIRUS ERROR
But in shopping for a PC I find I will get stuck with Vista and possibly the need to do a heck of a lot of work to get going again. I use old software (DOS and Windows-3.0 vintage, like MS-Word 6. I do want DSL. Why Internet Exploder? If you must run Windoze, download a copy of Firefox. -- Al Balmer Sun City, AZ.

Hasta La Vista, Behbee
In contrast, a modern operating system may well load a SCSI driver, initiate a bus reset, then continue loading other drivers and doing other work before What we want is a way to get the kernel loaded without waiting for the BIOS to do a lot of the setup that the kernel is about to do -- and do faster, better,

Linux Opens up While Conquering the Phone Market "So WHERE THE ...
Pretty much everything numbs Ballmer's mind. Where does a twerp like you get off making fun of Ballmer? Oh, come *on*, Edwin. Do the math, for once in your life: You The difference between PCs and internet users is due to people: * sharing computers; * using internet cafes; * using the internet from work,

Windows Vista: Fact or fiction?
I know you supposedly work for IBM and all, but once again, this is one of those "Only you seem to know about it" lawsuits. This Lawsuit got a lot of publicity back in 1991/1992. I don't remember the exact dates. The case was settled, for undisclosed terms, and the records were sealed. Yes, this predates most of

The trouble with Microsoft -- BusinessWeek cover story
My impression (and experience, albeit limited) is that it is technically solid and merely lacks the focused capital investment necessary to make it work for Joe Sixpack. I can afford to speculate, unlike Ballmer and unlike the securities analysts who are trying to make sense of the Vista story.

'Genuine' Vista Costs Extra, "Linux will Eat Microsoft ...
BALLMER: Well, sure we're worried. <snip> Now I don't care that Ballmer tries to explain away his worry in marketspeak as being about failure to meet customers .... Oh, you do a whole lot more than keep the advocates from getting too enthusiastic. In the recent example I referred to in a previous message,

Hu understands the thoughts of chairman Bill
Want to upgrade you XP to Vista? no chance. might as well do a fresh | install and shell out $300. negligent way of | treating the majority of game publishers - small development studios | and individual programmers of casual games: St. John claims that at | least nine out of ten games do not work with Vista.

Why not "Vista Only"? - Re: Over a terabyte of disk space
I got Vista Ultimate, which I do program development work on and a whole lot of other things. I don't think you have really looked under the hood of Vista, like I have done. XP cannot match Vista in what Vista has to offer as opposed to XP. I really do have to give Steve Ballmer credit. I think he could find a way

Microsoft counts on Vista to recharge stagnant stock
Al Balmer albal...@att.net rec outdoors rv-travel On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:37:39 -0700, "Nate" <nsaptaemcscpn...@nsvpbaemll.net> wrote: The second experience was a laptop for work...the one I am typing on right now. It came with 2 G of ram also...but it had Vista Basic installed. I upgraded it to Ultimate.

[Rival] Windopz "7" -- Not This Decade (Vista Or ...
It's clear that if we fail to do so, our business as we know it is at risk." `---- http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2494732,00.html Why Vista might be the last of its kind ,----[ Quote ] Imagine this. One of the world's most powerful monopolies puts 10000 people to work for five years to create

Corrupted and Unreadable Files
Mxsmanic mxsma...@gmail.com alt comp hardware pc-homebuilt Charlie Wilkes writes: I don't have the Mac knowledge to evaluate that assertion, but I do know that many informed people .... I can afford to speculate, unlike Ballmer and unlike the securities analysts who are trying to make sense of the Vista story.

Looking for a friend?
And the seriousness of the items on your "list" is exaggerated a lot by Linux losers. Actually, the list was so large that One plaintiff couldn't afford the storage to ..... What are they going to do? Best Buy charges a 15% restocking fee for returns. According to Best Buy, their Vista sales are below expectations.

Mother's ire puts Ballmer on defence over Vista
I don't know if Microsoft has a new strategy for SOA and Web2.0, but I know that their previous strategy will NOT work here. So it's no surprise that Ballmer is pounding his chest, announcing that MS is going to be the king of Web services. The question is whether this is a bluff, or if they really do have it all

OT: The Great Mideast Pretenders
I transferred a lot of settings from programs designed for XP into a computer running Vista. On the computer that works flawlessly I just backed up the data to DVD and placed it in a new directory on the new machine. No settings were transferred. I'd start by going though the display settings (what do they call it

Thoughts on Vista
Editor's Note: Free Advice To Gates, Ballmer On Vista 2. Today's Top Story - Ballmer Hints That Vista Might Slip Its Deadline--Again Related Stories: - Gates Says .... Related Stories: Gates Says Next Windows, Office Will Show The PC's 'In No Way Standing Still' The new versions will change a lot about how the PC

PC Makers: Hasta La Vista, Baby!
Microsoft's leaders do, too. The company is counting heavily on Windows Vista - the new version of the operating system, five years in the making - along That was in addition to extensive human testing of Vista. Power failure: The buildings where Vista developers work lost power on the Friday before they were

Tactless Ballmer Laughs at iPhone
Where I work, some people tend to call out "Monopoly crapware". I know I do. Yet, another group gets a lot done with Windows. I greatly prefer Linux, but I'm not ready to slag off on Can Steve Ballmer continue his gestapo tactics and hitleresque speeches without eventually coming off like the great dictator?

Vista delayed?
but "will it WANT to protect Windows Vista from large scale piracy?" It could do this selectively (depending on region). See items below. .... Quote ] "Some years back, Microsoft practiced a lot of dirty tricks using online mavens to go into forums and create Web sites extolling the virtues of Windows over OS/2.

Mother's ire puts Ballmer on defence over Vista
Jim Allchin: In terms of what we're trying to do in Windows Vista, we're trying to go at a new level that they haven't been at. Fundamentally, they have a different It will be interesting to see what they write over these next 18 months as they see what comes out of the work we've been doing. Steve Ballmer.

XP Professional OEM to Vista Ultimate Upgrade Transferable?
While I don't really enjoy some of the Vista "features" and issues, I really like Office 2007. Rod Pemberton PS: What ever happened to you're PC testbed? Lunt was interested in something similar, but he hasn't posted in a while... I don't think I'm gonna do it. Could help with ideas, maybe code, maybe something on