nixen
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With things like this, gotta think there's people sweating in Redmond.
»www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Ne···t-Office
»arstechnica.com/open-source/news···untu.ars
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sbconslt
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Los Angeles, CA | Yeah, sweating all over their $80 Billion money pile. How will they make ends meet.
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firephoto
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BBC has a piece on Win7 in a swim or sink sort of way.
»news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8310867.stm
Something like Apple just announcing a 'OS X for PC' with an unknown release could crimp some early Win7 sales too. It's a stretch but I've always figured it was a possibility with just some added support cost due to hardware variances. There's also some low rumbles about some big *nix desktop environments getting some hardware vendor love but so far I think it's just small portable or touchscreen devices and not general consumer products.
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Snakeoil
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Funny thing is, the box that has ubuntu on it, I tried installing win7. First time it failed to install the wireless mouse/keyboard. Second time nothing but BSOD during install.
Ubuntu never gave me any install problems at all.
Heck, before I upgraded my built PC, I had a dual boot PC. Visita and Ubuntu. I upgrade the processor and video card. Vista crapped out. The install disk couldn'r repair ir because the installed version had been updated to many times. Meanwhile Ubuntu booted and ran with no trouble.
The only way I'll stay with windows is if a machine I buy has it. Other wise, it's ubuntu for me.
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nixen
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said by firephoto  :Something like Apple just announcing a 'OS X for PC' with an unknown release could crimp some early Win7 sales too. It's a stretch but I've always figured it was a possibility with just some added support cost due to hardware variances. The funny thing is, OSX already runs on quite a bit of PC hardware. I've got several friends that run hackintosh systems. The guy in the next cube from me has a 17" laptop with 8GB of memory in it that he put together for under $900 (assembled via eBay) - and it runs Snow Leopard.
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said by sbconslt :Yeah, sweating all over their $80 Billion money pile. How will they make ends meet. All things come to an end sooner or later.
The income sources that produce that "$80 Billion" money pile will probably be no exception.
This may just be a step in that direction.
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Laurel, MD | reply to nixen
I'm really excited about the new OS coming out in a few days.
I speak, of course, of Ubuntu 9.10.
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said by Snakeoil : I built my PC with vista certified parts. That made me LOL.
Thanks. |
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Snakeoil
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1 edit | Why your welcome. Anytime.
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"Windows 7 is Microsoft's one and maybe only chance to redeem itself. "We have learned a lot from what went wrong with Vista," is a mantra repeated by every Microsoft executive."
Then why are they asking consumers to foot the bill? This is a recall, NOT an upgrade. LOL |
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