Windows Vista XP Death Watch

[Bender]

Re: So help save Windows XP

Re: So help save Windows XP

My Sony laptop is now 10 years old. It came with Windows 98. I flashed the
bios for a Windows 2000 installation. It is now running Windows XP.
I use it with my old scanner that does not have drivers for Vista. I can't
upgrade the laptop to Vista as it doesn't have enough ram for one thing (max
is 64 + 128 MB for a total of 192 MB).

"Canuck57" <dave-no_spam@unixhome.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Milt" <netrage@nospammiltsweb.com> wrote in message
> news:485326a2$0$5704$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>> cheley_bonstell88@live.com wrote:
>>> So help save Windows XP
>>>
>>
>> Save it? Its not going anywhere, you will still be able to use it for
>> years to come. Heck, you could still use Windows 3.1 if you wanted to, no
>> one is stopping you. Same with Windows 2000, NT, 98, ME, 95....
>
> You can in so long as your PC already has it and it does not crap out.
> Most PCs are not designed to last 10+ years. (assuming your XP is original
> and a patch does not blow it up).
>

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Re: So help save Windows XP

Re: So help save Windows XP

"Frank" <fb@sto.clm> wrote in message
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>>
>>>You can't be as stupid as you seem, can you?
>>>Frank
>>
>>
>> No Frank. That is the one thing that you can do better than anybody
>> else. It's your forte.
>>
>>
> ss=Still Stupid I see!
> Frank


Are you really some sort of demented bot?

ss.

 

[Ezekiel]

Re: XP Death Watch


"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote in message
news:1497069.Lp6T5hALED@schestowitz.com...
>
> They enable upgrades to XP now, provided that you 'upgrade' your Vista
> (edition-wise). Another fine example of double-dipping to game sales
> statistics and milk innocent users, who can -- and probably will -- pay
> extra
> for XP.


More proof that Roy Schestowitz is either a clueless idiot or a immoral
liar. You have absolutely zero idea what you're talking about. You my lying
little unemployed loser, are a total idiot.


-- "They enable upgrades to XP now, provided that you 'upgrade' your Vista
(edition-wise)."

So your claim is that if I have a computer and want to run XP then
Microsoft will (somehow through magic) force me to buy Vista first, and
only then I can buy and install XP? Are you really this stupid?

Perhaps a more accurate and far more honest explanation is that Microsoft
usually does "site licenses" with it's large customers. And customers who
upgraded their site license to Windows Vista are not prohibited from
installing/running XP on machines even though the current license is for
Vista.





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[David]

Re: So help save Windows XP

Re: So help save Windows XP

On Jun 14, 5:04 am, RHF <rhf-newsgro...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> On Jun 13, 7:25 pm, David <mcdonald6...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Jun 13, 10:02 pm, Milt <netr...@nospammiltsweb.com> wrote:
>
> > > cheley_bonstel...@live.com wrote:
> > > > So help save Windows XP
>
> > > Save it? Its not going anywhere, you will still be able to use it for
> > > years to come. Heck, you could still use Windows 3.1 if you wanted to,
> > > no one is stopping you. Same with Windows 2000, NT, 98, ME, 95....
>
> > Well,
>
> > let me spell it out.
>
> > say next year , you want to buy a nice new Shiny PC..
>
> > but your choices will be either Vista ( search for Vista on Youtube )
>
> > or something that might not be compatible with your work group, or
> > require a" Windows MVP" to support it.
>
> > If Windows XP is available , pre installed on your new PC,
>
> > you're good to go.
>
> > Currently, with Vista, to get any sort of performance out of it, you
> > have to figure out How to disable half of the system
>
> > just to get the same performance you currently get with Windows XP.
>
> > - and I say
>
> > Why force the computer illiterates of the world ( the rest of the
> > Population)
>
> > through all this Hosre Siht.
>
> > Why, with Vista, they can't even get out to Yahoo Groups.
>
> > Having a " Vista Only " PC world is delegating many PC's of the world
> > into fancy screen-saver endowed paperweights.
>
> > A Vista Only PC world will cripple normal commerce and industry.
>
> > And I say,
>
> >  why put up with this Microsoft "Vista only " crap!
>
> > Just Worry, Cajole and Bullyrage  Microsoft
>
> >  into making Good old reliable Windows XP available for  The
> > Foreseeable Future..
>
> > Thank You ..
>
> David,
>
> OK - Simple Question : Why not buy any new PC with Vista
> installed on it; and Erase {Wipe Clean} the Hard Drive and
> Install Window's XP on it ?
>
idtars ~ RHF
>  .

Very complicated, very expensive.

Most PC users have just about learned that the Cup Holder actually
reads CD's.

Asking them to re educate themselves about a complex, cumbersome OS is
not practical or realistic.

the only thing that they know is " Buy A Mac". " Buy A Mac".

As for " Ubuntu" and "Linux " , they are either Countries in Africa
or Rap Guys.

Windows XP is a Nice, Safe, realiable OS that
Should be an option when one goes out to buy a New PC.

maybe..MAYBE.. Microsoft will stop pumping Apple
by forcing crummy OS's on the computer illiterate.

So Please, sign the petition then send it around to your friends.

Maybe they'll listen

http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/archives/2008/01/save_windows_xp.html

 

[Alias]

Re: So help save Windows XP

Re: So help save Windows XP

David wrote:

>
> As for " Ubuntu" and "Linux " , they are either Countries in Africa
> or Rap Guys.

How long have you been an ignorant racist?

Alias

 

[Robin T Cox]

Re: XP Death Watch

cheley_bonstell88@live.com wrote:

> XP Death Watch

(Sob) I can hardly bear to look ...
--
Facts are sacred ... but comment is free

 

[Linonut]

Re: XP Death Watch

* cheley_bonstell88@live.com peremptorily fired off this memo:

> XP Death Watch

http://www.bonestell.org/thebonestell.html

This was Chesley's favorite ****tail, which he mixed for himself and
for special guests--

The "Bonestell"

4 oz. California brandy (Korbel)

2 oz. White Italian vermouth (Cinzano Blanco)

One lump of ice--to cool the drink, not to chill or dilute it

Serve in 8-10 oz. glass

One to a customer


--
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of
that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
-- Bill Gates

 

[David]

Re: XP Death Watch

On Jun 14, 8:58 am, Linonut <lino...@bollsouth.nut> wrote:
> * cheley_bonstel...@live.com peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
> > XP Death Watch
>
>    http://www.bonestell.org/thebonestell.html
>
>    This was Chesley's favorite ****tail, which he mixed for himself and
>    for special guests--
>
>    The "Bonestell"
>
>    4 oz. California brandy (Korbel)
>
>    2 oz. White Italian vermouth (Cinzano Blanco)
>
>    One lump of ice--to cool the drink, not to chill or dilute it
>
>    Serve in 8-10 oz. glass
>
>    One to a customer
>
> --
>

- Doubtless handed out by the Gallon with every copy of Microsoft
Vista . .


http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/archives/2008/01/save_windows_xp.html

 

[DS]

Re: XP Death Watch

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:25:36 +0000, the wharf rat wrote:

> In article <Ot5dobdzIHA.5108@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, Hayden Kirk
> <hayden@mobilepc.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>>My customers want a good 64bit system.
>
> Why?

Possibly because that is what he recommends to them.

For instance, SolidWorks resellers recommend a 64 bit system to their
users strictly based on being able to use more than 3+ gigs of RAM for
the application.

 

[dave]

Re: So help save Windows XP

Re: So help save Windows XP

David wrote:

>
> Having a " Vista Only " PC world is delegating many PC's of the world
> into fancy screen-saver endowed paperweights.
>
> A Vista Only PC world will cripple normal commerce and industry.
>
> And I say,
>
> why put up with this Microsoft "Vista only " crap!
>
> Just Worry, Cajole and Bullyrage Microsoft
>
> into making Good old reliable Windows XP available for The
> Foreseeable Future..
>
> Thank You ..
>
There is a superior operating system, (for everyone but gamers and video
editors). It is free for the taking. You can burn a DVD and use it to
test your hardware actually running the OS, directly off the DVD. If
you like it, install it.

www.ubuntu.com

It includes this:

http://www.openoffice.org/

for Office, and this:

and this:

http://www.gimp.org/

for Photoshop.

Screw Microsoft.

 

[DS]

Re: XP Death Watch

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:52:32 -0700, cheley_bonstell88 wrote:

> XP Death Watch
>
>
>
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/27/XP-deathwatch-T-minus-five-
weeks_1.html
>
> Even though it has had its own problems of late, Windows XP remains the
> most-used version of Windows. The newest data from Web metrics vendor
> Net Applications, for example, pegs XP as driving 73 percent of the
> personal computers that went online last month,
>
> five times the nearest competitor, Microsoft's own Windows Vista.
>
> Which is why an impending deadline five weeks from today is important.
>
> According to Microsoft, June 30 is the last day it will permit retailers
> and OEMs to sell
> the nearly seven-year-old operating system.
>
> [ Make your voice heard. Sign InfoWorld's 'Save Windows XP' petition
> today. ]
>
>
> http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/
>
>
> You'll have questions as that date approaches,
>
> including whether the deadline will drive up prices (gouging, anyone?);
>
> we plan to have the answers, starting with this FAQ and continuing
> through the end of next month.
>
> How long until Microsoft shuts off the XP spigot? Five weeks from today
> is the last day Microsoft
>
> will officially allow retailers to sell the old operating system, and
> let major computer makers
> --
> called "OEMs," for "original equipment manufacturers" -- to sell PCs
> with XP pre-installed.
>
>
> Monday, June 30, is the EOL, or End-Of-Life, a term Dell, not Microsoft,
> has publicly used,
> for XP's retail and OEM availability.
>
> So what's the June 18 date I've heard about? That's the day that Dell
> has said is the last
>
> possible day for its customers to buy a machine running Windows XP.
> "To meet Microsoft's
>
> June 30 last-day-to-ship OEM Windows XP deadline,
>
> June 18 is the last time to purchase a Dell laptop, desktop, or
> workstation
>
> with an OEM Windows XP license"
>
> , Dell says on its Web site.
>
> www.dell.com

Did you read the fine print ?

'After June 18th you have the option to purchase Windows Vista Business
or Windows Vista Ultimate with a downgrade service to Windows XP
Professional.'

......meaning, if you opt for Business or Ultimate, Dell will, at the
factory, and with your consent, exercise your downgrade rights for you
and your PC will come with XP installed and Vista on a disc.

 

[Alias]

Re: So help save Windows XP

Re: So help save Windows XP

dave wrote:
> David wrote:
>
>>
>> Having a " Vista Only " PC world is delegating many PC's of the world
>> into fancy screen-saver endowed paperweights.
>>
>> A Vista Only PC world will cripple normal commerce and industry.
>>
>> And I say,
>>
>> why put up with this Microsoft "Vista only " crap!
>>
>> Just Worry, Cajole and Bullyrage Microsoft
>>
>> into making Good old reliable Windows XP available for The
>> Foreseeable Future..
>>
>> Thank You ..
>>
> There is a superior operating system, (for everyone but gamers and video
> editors). It is free for the taking. You can burn a DVD and use it to
> test your hardware actually running the OS, directly off the DVD. If
> you like it, install it.
>
> www.ubuntu.com
>
> It includes this:
>
> http://www.openoffice.org/
>
> for Office, and this:
>
> and this:
>
> http://www.gimp.org/
>
> for Photoshop.
>
> Screw Microsoft.
>

Not only can you use Open Office and Gimp, you can also do this with Ubuntu:

Email
Surf the web
Burn CDs.
Rip CDs.
Listen to music.
Watch vidoes/DVDs.
Scan and print.
Spreadsheets.
Presentations
Newsgroups.
HTML editing.
Games like Chess, Tetris, all kinds of solitaire, etc.
Make videos.
Download photos from a camera and organize them.
Translations.
Use a dictionary
Learn how to touch type.
Edit images.
Send and receive a fax.
Take screenshots.
Create .PDF files.
Create and use a data base.
Instant messaging with over 10 different programs in one including
Windows Live Messenger.
IRC.
Bluetooth.

and much more!

What you can't do with Ubuntu:

Worry about:
WPA and WGA raising their ugly heads,
DRM,
Viruses,
Root kits,
Spyware,
and
Malware.

Alias

 

[Moshe Goldfarb.]

Re: XP Death Watch

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:51:21 -0400, Ezekiel wrote:

> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote in message
> news:1497069.Lp6T5hALED@schestowitz.com...
>>
>> They enable upgrades to XP now, provided that you 'upgrade' your Vista
>> (edition-wise). Another fine example of double-dipping to game sales
>> statistics and milk innocent users, who can -- and probably will -- pay
>> extra
>> for XP.
>
>
> More proof that Roy Schestowitz is either a clueless idiot or a immoral
> liar. You have absolutely zero idea what you're talking about. You my lying
> little unemployed loser, are a total idiot.
>
>
> -- "They enable upgrades to XP now, provided that you 'upgrade' your Vista
> (edition-wise)."
>
> So your claim is that if I have a computer and want to run XP then
> Microsoft will (somehow through magic) force me to buy Vista first, and
> only then I can buy and install XP? Are you really this stupid?
>
> Perhaps a more accurate and far more honest explanation is that Microsoft
> usually does "site licenses" with it's large customers. And customers who
> upgraded their site license to Windows Vista are not prohibited from
> installing/running XP on machines even though the current license is for
> Vista.

Schestowitz has progressed from loon to liar in recent months.
I really think he is about to fall off the edge.

It's all about spreading FUD and seeding Google with anti-Microsoft
statements.

The ironic part is, the more he plays this game the worse he looks because
his lunacy is spread to all corners of the net so it's easy to see that the
guy is on some kind of a twisted mission.

I hope he is being compensated well for this work.

--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/

 

[Hadron]

Re: XP Death Watch


"Moshe Goldfarb." <brick_n_straw@gmail.com> writes:

> The ironic part is, the more he plays this game the worse he looks because
> his lunacy is spread to all corners of the net so it's easy to see that the
> guy is on some kind of a twisted mission.
>
> I hope he is being compensated well for this work.

I was contacted by a reliable source from DIGG recently who revealed a
few very interesting little tidbits of information regarding Roy's
renumeration. All will be revealed very soon. One interesting thing is
that there is also a conflict of interest with Roy's academic
institution which could involve loss of privilige and/or expulsion from
his courses. As I said - it's all *very* interesting.

--
"Every piece of evidence I've heard from developers inside Microsoft
supports my theory that the company has become completely tangled up in
"
-- William Poaster <wp@leafnode.amd64.eu> in comp.os.linux.advocacy

 

[Clear Windows]

Re: XP Death Watch

He (Hayden Kirk) is stupid....

I could recommend a hummer jeep for everyone, but the extra cost makes no
sense for people in the city...
Sure it could travel any terrain but at what cost?

Having a super duper 64 bit 4 core 8 gb system just so vista can work is
crazy.. Most of that power goes to the OS itself anyway..

Vista is poorly designed and that’s why its hated worldwide by billions.

the world it turning to more efficient, greener, less power hungry, faster,
better designed OS's and computers

Vista is the last of its kind... a freak of nature... a dinosaur that will
be exhibited in a museum as the biggest mistake MS ever made.






"DS" <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.com> wrote in message
news:4853ccec$0$30195$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:25:36 +0000, the wharf rat wrote:
>
>> In article <Ot5dobdzIHA.5108@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, Hayden Kirk
>> <hayden@mobilepc.co.nz> wrote:
>>>
>>>My customers want a good 64bit system.
>>
>> Why?
>
> Possibly because that is what he recommends to them.
>
> For instance, SolidWorks resellers recommend a 64 bit system to their
> users strictly based on being able to use more than 3+ gigs of RAM for
> the application.
>

 

[DS]

Re: So help save Windows XP

Re: So help save Windows XP

>> into making Good old reliable Windows XP available for The
>> Foreseeable Future..
>>
>> Thank You ..
>>
> There is a superior operating system, (for everyone but gamers and video
> editors)

Why not video editors ?

http://www.linux.com/feature/60624

 

[Clear Windows]

Re: So help save Windows XP

Re: So help save Windows XP

vista sucks frank is stupid.,

that's the 2 basic things one should know when coming to vista.general




"Frank" <fb@sto.clm> wrote in message
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> Synapse Syndrome wrote:
>> "Frank" <fb@sto.clm> wrote in message
>> news:48532ea3$0$4264$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>>
>>>You can't be as stupid as you seem, can you?
>>>Frank
>>
>>
>> No Frank. That is the one thing that you can do better than anybody
>> else. It's your forte.
>>
>> ss.
> ss=Still Stupid I see!
> Frank

 

[Moshe Goldfarb.]

Re: XP Death Watch

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:30:19 +0200, Hadron wrote:

> "Moshe Goldfarb." <brick_n_straw@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> The ironic part is, the more he plays this game the worse he looks because
>> his lunacy is spread to all corners of the net so it's easy to see that the
>> guy is on some kind of a twisted mission.
>>
>> I hope he is being compensated well for this work.
>
> I was contacted by a reliable source from DIGG recently who revealed a
> few very interesting little tidbits of information regarding Roy's
> renumeration. All will be revealed very soon. One interesting thing is
> that there is also a conflict of interest with Roy's academic
> institution which could involve loss of privilige and/or expulsion from
> his courses. As I said - it's all *very* interesting.

There is no question that Roy Schestowitz is up to something other than
advocating Linux.
His entire operation just does not add up at all.

Keep us posted!!



--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/

 

[dennis@home]

Re: So help save Windows XP

Re: So help save Windows XP



"Alias" <iamalias@NOSPAMPLEASEgmail.com> wrote in message
news:g30k6v$htc$1@aioe.org...


> What you can't do with Ubuntu:
>
> Worry about:
> WPA and WGA raising their ugly heads,
> DRM,

Its quite amusing alias posting about DRM being a problem..

he is currently posting in the Ubuntu groups for a solution to preventing
people from editing forms he wants them to be able to fill in online..
the solution of course is DRM,
however he will just continue with his worthless comments and wont admit
that he can't solve his problem without some sort of DRM.
He wont solve it at all on Ubuntu so he will just have to accept that if
someone can display it on Ubuntu they can /edit/ it and print it.


> Viruses,
> Root kits,
> Spyware,
> and
> Malware.
>
> Alias

 

[Frank]

Re: So help save Windows XP

Re: So help save Windows XP

Synapse Syndrome wrote:

> "Frank" <fb@sto.clm> wrote in message
> news:48535705$0$4245$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>
>>>>You can't be as stupid as you seem, can you?
>>>>Frank
>>>
>>>
>>>No Frank. That is the one thing that you can do better than anybody
>>>else. It's your forte.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>ss=Still Stupid I see!
>>Frank
>
>
>
> Are you really some sort of demented bot?
>
> ss.
>
>
Are you really as stupid as you seem?
Frank