Curtis D. Levin wrote:[color=blue]
> "ceed" <ceed.spameater@dysthe.net> wrote in message
> news:1187063668.447160.102790@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...[color=green]
>> On Aug 12, 9:32 pm, "Ronnie Vernon MVP" <r...@invalid.org> wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> Paul
>>>
>>> The only thing I remember from the XP newsgroups when it was first
>>> released
>>> was "XP SUCKS". Do a google search for that term dated from Oct 2001
>>> forward
>>> and you'll see what I mean.
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>> The way I remember it is that XP actually *did* suck back then. It
>> wasn't only people saying it... :)
>>
>> The core Vista OS (kernel, memory management etc.) is actually better
>> than XP was when it first came out. The problem in Vista is all the
>> babysitter stuff tham makes it impossible to work. I have gotten rid
>> of most of it, so now it works....sorta....and it looks great! :)[/color]
>
> Notice that everyone that comes in here saying that win** sucks
> tells us that we should all run Linux instead? Or go back to XP?
> It's easy when the people who say that have no commitment.
>
> Yeah, XP is about done. Linux is even getting better than it
> used to be as far as hardware support is concerned, Even
> apple is easier, because they write one OS for one specific
> type of hardware.
>
> MS, OTOH, writes for just about everything, and everyone.
> If the guys who wrote Linux had to do it all themselves, it
> never would have gotten to where it is, and no one would have
> supported it, much less made money packaging it for money
> while the people who actually do it get nothing.
>
> Yeah, Vista is buggy. NOT. I've had it for less than a week
> and it does everything better than XP did, or Liunx when I had
> that. If the people who complained about it lurked here for a
> few days they might learn enough to fix the 3 or 4 settings
> that were causing problems. If they were polite instead of rude
> they might learn something. Something more than the manners
> their momma should have taught them. This is a Microsoft
> group, after all.
>
> If you want to praise Linux, go do it in the Linux group.
> Same same XP or mac. In the meantime, I can safely say that
> Vista is by far the best OS MS has come out with yet. And
> because it's still in it's infancy, we can expect even more.
>
> Count me as one satisfied customer.
>
> Curtis
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Well there's one at least :)