Just noticed the following good post, which comes from a fellow (new) COLA
subscriber...
Windows Vista - We Don't Want You!
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| My father, in his travels, has met Bill Gates. I don?t think I'd be
| creating a problem for him now (as he recently retired) by saying that
| he was unimpressed. Apparently Gates was rude, he was distracted, and
| when he sat, he rocked back and forth in his chair, an action which
| reminded my Dad of people with dementia.
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| The Microsoft business model is inherently wrong. It's more akin to
| Donald Trump's building strategy and just as flawed: namely, that
| things simply have to get bigger and more gaudy. Trump wasn?t satisfied
| with having big and splendid casinos in Atlantic City; he had to build
| the Taj Mahal. Microsoft isn't satisfied with building Windows 2000 or
| Windows XP - they have to build Windows Vista. The only difference is
| that the Taj Mahal bankrupted Trump; because of the aggressive
| (abusive?) relationship that Microsoft has with hardware suppliers,
| they're likely to get away with it.
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| But no one is asking the question - do we, the consumers, really need
| Vista? Recent estimates show that some 16 percent of users are still
| happily running Windows 98, Windows 98 SE and Windows ME. In 2005, it was
| estimated that some 48 percent of businesses were still running Windows
| 2000. Given this, there is no logical, obvious requirement to upgrade,
| except due to Microsoft discontinuing support for legacy OSes.
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http://www.linuxextremist.com/?p=12
On the issue of Gates,
http://members.aol.com/erichuf/Linux3.html
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| # When he tries to sit still in a chair, he rocks back and forth.
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You can see him rocking back and forth as he gets grilled in the Netscape
hearing that I vividly recall...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3vQKAtHdfuc&search=grilled%20bill%20gates
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