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Re: [News] [Rival] Vista Service Pack Even More Scary Than Vista RTM

* Ezekiel peremptorily fired off this memo:

>> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/my_lack_of_confidence_in_vista_sp1.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
>> http://tinyurl.com/2rbmls
>
> In other words, he's willing to put up with some pain rather than run linux.

Nah, Zeke, you're not reading:

   "I struggled through WordPro and WordPerfect and Lotus 123," he
   complained. "Nothing could talk to anything else." File compatibility
   problems plagued him during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The best
   and worst came with the move from DOS to Windows. "I had to learn
   everything over. I just gave up." But not forever.

   He moved to Office 95 and Windows 95 in 1996. The standardization
   around Microsoft technologies and file formats "really solved my
   problems. I built my business on Microsoft. I just love `em." 

   ...

   As for Linux, he has no interest. Fairly or not, my friend identifies
   Linux with that $65,000 spent on custom programming. He can't imagine
   that Linux or the supporting software would be good enough for his
   business.

Leave him to his own demise.

-- 
Well, it seems to me that he did have an education to get there. It happened to
be mine, not his.  -- Gary Kildall on the selection of Gates to give the
keynote at the anniversary of the University of Washington computer science
program. This perceived insult prompted Kildall to write his memoir. "The Man
Who Could Have Been Bill Gates" in Business Week (25 OCTOBER 2004)

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