Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 26th Apr 2008 22:22 UTC
As you surely know by now, the latest hype on the web is stories, news, or supposedly new quotes regarding the potential availability of Windows XP after June 30th, when Microsoft will cease selling the seven year old operating system. The latest development? Big PC companies like Dell and HP have found a backdoor to keep on selling XP after 30 June. And no, it doesn't involve Windows 2003.
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RE: The linguist in me
by StephenBeDoper on Sun 27th Apr 2008 14:08
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Oh come now, Vista's doing fine - its sales figures are just experiencing a little "negative growth."
Well, apart from the fact that nothing's wrong for MS as long as they can load whatever they want on any OEM's machine.
It is kind of sad that this OS has become sort of the proverbial slowness, that must hurt a little bit at Redmond even though it doesn't hurt them financially at all.
But now that we're talking marketing speak, one of the most bizarre things coming from the Rdmnd Marketing Machine I thought was the "Ready Boost" thing. Haha. It isn't 'ready', it doesn't boost, all it sort of does is f**k up your flash drive.
I can actually imagine how they sat down and discussed, let's give this thing a name and how shall we do that. Haha.
RE[2]: The linguist in me
by Phloptical on Mon 28th Apr 2008 01:12
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The linguist in me thinks that good marketeers are the embodiment of linguistic genius.
My favorite would be "memory challenged", to stay within computing spheres. I hope Vista will not be killed by XP's "friendly fire" - now thát's a cool term.
(almost off-t.) I just installed Windows XP on Virtual Box on Linux, it runs and boots faster with ClamWin running than Vista Business did without any AV on the same machine when it had it all for itself.* So I thought I'd just virtually pre-upgradify it, you know.