RedRock
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Post by RedRock on Apr 16, 2013 21:26:27 GMT -5
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Major_A
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Post by Major_A on Apr 18, 2013 20:52:11 GMT -5
Thanks for the article, I shared it with some people to help
warn them from upgrading yet.
Maybe they'll fix their screw up since sales dropped 14%
See what happens when you take away the start button and classic view!
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Lamron
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Post by Lamron on Apr 18, 2013 22:40:40 GMT -5
Microsoft seems to only be able to produce a decent operating system every other attempt.
XP = good
Vista = bad
Win7 = great
Win8 not just bad, but bad on purpose! Fire everybody!
Fortunately, Windows 7 is such a good system that it will be many years before there's any reason to change. Of course, I build my computers myself and install whatever I want. I feel sorry for anyone buying a new computer with Win8 already on it.
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Major_A
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Post by Major_A on Apr 19, 2013 20:20:43 GMT -5
Your absolutely right, however, If you want to be picky, it's every 2 or 3 win releases.
If you start at 98 leaving out NT
Win 98 good
Win 2000 crap
Win ME crap
Win XP good
Win Vista CRAAAAP
Win WHS no point for most people
Win 7 awesome
Win WHS 2011 no point for most people, AGAIN
Win 8 sucks very large winkies
Waiting for Win whatever to fix Win 8 winkie sucking version
There are also a few media center editions that are pretty pointless as well,
it seemed from what I saw of them, they were just machines with video in out
cards and came with a multi-memory slot card reader. Probly an attempt
to keep people from learning how to upgrade their own machine and keep buying
stuff like Dell complete setups, complete with BTX cases that cost an arm and a leg to replace a motherboard in WHEN it died, NOT "IF" it died.
Your right though, and it's what I've been telling people.
What we need is an operating system that didn't rely on just Windows to use the software.
A Windows compatible Operating system as it were. I don't mean using Wine in Linux either.
If it wasn't for the games relying on Windows, they wouldn't have a pot to piss in. imo
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Major_A
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Post by Major_A on Apr 21, 2013 11:30:08 GMT -5
We had a choice to get a washer from Rent A Center,
or beat our clothes on a rock down at the river.
Since it's still cold out we picked Rent A Center.
My wife said something about her mom got their
computer there and I look over and there's 10 machines
all with a Windows 8 logo spinning around on the monitors
and I said to her I suppose she got stuck with Windows 8 too.
The Manager turned around and told me people were bringing
machines back because they want Windows 7 and not the piece
of junk software that's on there. He said some of them were
VERY PO'd, and he doesn't want to upgrade his machine from XP
yet because of it. lolol
I told him he shouldn't have too much longer to wait hopefully
before Microsoft releases a fix for their screw up.
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RedRock
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Post by RedRock on Apr 22, 2013 14:37:37 GMT -5
Interesting story, Major, thanks for passing that on.
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