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Re: [News] [Rival] Windows Vista Still Gets Bad Publicity for Being Broken

  • Subject: Re: [News] [Rival] Windows Vista Still Gets Bad Publicity for Being Broken
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 11:52:07 +0100
  • In-reply-to: <2224073.5jRpsCW6Qj@schestowitz.com>
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> The Vista Experiment is over. Conclusion: Choose Life.

Unfortunately for the hoards of rubes out there, the experiment is just
beginning.

> New 'Get a Mac' Ads Mock Vista Again and Again
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The best of a new crop posted Monday night is "Choose a Vista," 
> | which features John "PC" Hodgman spinning a game wheel to select a
> | version of Vista. Cries of "Big Operating System! Big Operating
> | System! Daddy needs an upgrade!" Will stay with me for a long time.
> `----
> 
> http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2007/05/new_get_a_mac_a.html

Hilarious as ever, but he misquoted the number of versions; it's
actually *eight* not *six*:

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_editions_final.asp

> Here's the effect on our lives:
> 
> http://www.irintech.com/x1/blogarchive.php?id=1020

Minion: "Mr. Blair, the Iranians have launched a nuclear missile, what
         should we do?"

Cheesy: "Deploy countermeasures!"

Minion: "Er ... what does 'This copy of Window is not activated' mean?"

   ..-^~~~^-..
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(;:           :;)
 (:           :)
   ':._   _.:'
       | |
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    ((/   \))

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system,
| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
`----

Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) on sky, running kernel 2.6.20-1.2312.fc5
 11:50:12 up 22 days,  9:22,  3 users,  load average: 0.03, 0.09, 0.14

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