"Larry" <noone@home.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9C37EF8E0EF58noonehomecom@74.209.131.13...
> Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in news:h24d45$ipe$1
> @news.eternal-september.org:
>
>> Some of us ... like probably most of the computer users in the world ...
>> actually LIKE Windows and have as much distaste for Linux as you do for
>> Windows.
>>
>>
>
> I don't distaste Windows. I've been using Micro$oft's products since DOS
> 1.0 was released on 8086 hardware! I'm using WinXPSP3 typing this message
> because it's convenient and familiar with Xnews, a very old usenet client.
>
> I'm sorry you got that impression that my post placing the 1GB limit on
> Micro$oft was simply reporting all the thousands of articles written on
> the
> subject.
>
> One of my friends wants to install Win7 on his box. I've asked him to
> wait
> until 2010 for SP2 or 3 until a significant number of major bugs users
> find
> are ironed out. He failed to listen and upgraded to Vista 1.0 on day one,
> paying dearly for his transgression.....(c;]

I am running Win7 fine on my ASUS 1000H, 2Gb of RAM that took about 15
seconds to install.

> I missed several horrible "upgrades" like ME, Vista, some NT flavors here.
> I've never been much of a "retail beta tester" for any software.....
>
> WinXPSP3 is a very stable product. I just wish its company wasn't so hell
> bent on destroying it.
>
>
>
> --
> -----
> Larry
>
> If a man goes way out into the woods all alone and says something,
> is it still wrong, even though no woman hears him?