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____/ Jerry McBride on Friday 04 January 2008 16:48 : \____
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> I just went shopping for USB FLASH DRIVES and found a good deal on TOSHIBA
> brand USB-4GTR's at OfficeMax.
>
> The really neat part is that the display card, where is says, "OS
> Requirements"... Linux is listed. :')
>
> The really humorous part of my shopping spree was the walk down the "windows
> OS isle"... Shelves and shelves of Windows Vista... collecting dust. When
> I asked the sales person about the sales of Window Vista packages... she
> said they're only on display because they have to be there. Now, that's
> a "WOW FACTOR" if I ever heard one. As for ZUNE and Vista powered
> laptops... yeah, they sell them... but they always come back...
Zune 'enjoys' clearance sales ATM. All the brown s* must go.
> Hehe! Amazing...
You story sounded familiar. 2 weeks ago:
Interesting comment from CompUSA
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| Every single one of them he said was returned from consumers... and that they
| (CompUSA) couldn't ship them back. As he heard, Microsoft wasn't giving
| credit back for unsold or returned copies... and didn't want the returned
| figures made public... He wouldn't say that every single one of them
| exchanged for a copy of Xp, he didn't know if that was true. So, I asked how
| many boxes did they have. Same glare, followed with a "You do not want to
| know" type statement.
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http://zerias.blogspot.com/2007/12/interesting-comment-from-compusa.html
I can't imagine who will actually /buy/ Vista (unless it comes preinstalled and
then returned to the shop or replaced). Gutmann likened it to cutting the legs
of runners and seeing who runs fastest on crutches, which reminded me of an
image I saw 2 days ago:
http://beranger.org/blogo8/arguing_over_internet.jpg
I can't think of where I can find the one about Vista (specifically) which
shows wheelchairs at the special Olympics... or the cartoon with the chair
that has spikes on it.
Mac OS and GNU/Linux will gain a lot from Windows Catastrophe(R) in years to
come. The same rotten DNA will plague Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Home
Server, I can assure you based on what I've read. I'm still wondering what
they'll do with Novell and whether that Apple lawsuit in Europe came from
Microsoft (again), by proxy.
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