cheley_bonstell88@live.com wrote:

> On Jun 30, 7:24 pm, kevpan815 <kevpan...@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Re: That Windows XP Option Requires The Purchase Of A Vista License, Just
>>FYI. Also, Notice That It Is 4 High End Home And Home Office Dell Gaming PC's
>>Only, Also Just FYI.
>
>
> Ubuntu is Free;
>
> worth checking out, even for the hardest Core Vista fan

Why? It's a POS toy os that Vista will run circles around. It's
worthless...meant for those who are either too broke or stupid to run
Vista, the very best OS available today.

Per harvey:
>forcing PC users to buy more expensive equipment / software
>
>for the same performance?


"Intel givith.
Microsoft taketh away."
--
PeteCresswell

On Jun 30, 7:59 am, **::- Alias- ::**
<iamal...@TAKETHISOUTOFHEREgmail.com> wrote:
> harvey wrote:
> > Could it be that Microsoft and Intel are in cahoots,
>
> > forcing PC users to buy more expensive equipment / software
>
> Possibly.
>
>
>
> > for the same performance?
>
> > - Try Ubuntu..
>
> > Quite free.
>
> I'm posting from Ubuntu ;-)
>
> Alias
>
>
>
> > On Jun 30, 9:05 am, **::- Alias- ::**
> > <iamal...@TAKETHISOUTOFHEREgmail.com> wrote:
> >> harvey wrote:
> >>> Let Microsoft shoot themselves in the foot
> >>> Ubuntu is better than Vista !
> >> MS censored this entire thread. I wonder why.
>
> >> Alias
>
> >>> On Jun 30, 5:39 am, "Still learning" <notreala...@rukidding.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080630/...e/microsoft_xp
> >>>> REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP
> >>>> operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite
> >>>> protests from a slice of PC users who don't want to be forced into using
> >>>> XP's successor, Vista.
> >>>> Once computers loaded with XP have been cleared from the inventory of PC
> >>>> makers such as Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., consumers who can't live
> >>>> without the old operating system on their new machine will have to buy Vista
> >>>> Ultimate or Vista Business and then legally "downgrade" to XP.
> >>>> Microsoft will still allow smaller mom-and-pop PC builder shops to buy XP
> >>>> for resale through the end of January. A version of XP will also remain
> >>>> available for ultra-low-cost PCs such as the Asus Eee PC.
> >>>> A group of vocal computer users who rallied around a "Save XP" petition
> >>>> posted on the industry news site InfoWorld had been clamoring for Microsoft
> >>>> to keep selling XP until its next operating system, Windows 7, is available.
> >>>> The software maker has said it expects to release Windows 7 sometime in
> >>>> 2009.
> >>>> Last week, Microsoft said it would provide full technical support for
> >>>> six-year-old Windows XP through 2009, and limited support through 2014.

I seriously doubt Intel is is "in cahoots" with Microsoft on this one.
The New York Times published a piece last week say they have declined
converting from Windows XP to Vista for their many thousands of PC's.
They are only allowing a select few employees try Vista.

Hobbes wrote:
> cheley_bonstell88@live.com wrote:
>> On Jun 30, 7:24 pm, kevpan815 <kevpan...@discussions.microsoft.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Re: That Windows XP Option Requires The Purchase Of A Vista License,
>>> Just
>>> FYI. Also, Notice That It Is 4 High End Home And Home Office Dell
>>> Gaming PC's
>>> Only, Also Just FYI.
>>
>> Ubuntu is Free;
>>
>> worth checking out, even for the hardest Core Vista fan
>>
>> http://www.dell.com/content/topics/s...=19&l=en&s=dhs
>>
>>
>
> Yeah !
> Buy a high end gaming machine...then put ubuntu on it !
> Not !
> Unless you dual boot it with XP or Vista.
> Oh...and wine sucks for games

no kidding. Buy any high-end machine and put Ubuntu on it, what's the
point? Open Office does not work like MS Office, no matter what some
people say, you can't really game, except perhaps in emulation but why
on Earth would you want to run something in emulation that you can run
native? It would run faster and easier in a native setting. IMHO, Ubuntu
is worth what you pay for it.

In article <ejgIIz42IHA.5060@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>,
milt <theatreguy_dunspam_@miltsweb.com> wrote:
>
>no kidding. Buy any high-end machine and put Ubuntu on it, what's the
>point? Open Office does not work like MS Office, no matter what some

Well, you don't need ANY kind of high end machine for Office*
My Celeron 400 does just fine for that kind of thing. A high end
Linux box could be used for number crunching (scientific calculations),
various simulations, as a file/application server... Just because it
won't run Crysis doesn't mean it's totally useless.

Or run it in a virtual machine. With Ubuntu it is a little easier to set up
using VMWare but there is info on the web on how to do it in VPC too.

"Hobbes" <Hobbes@Calvins.lol> wrote in message news:g4bsc0$4tl$1@aioe.org...
> cheley_bonstell88@live.com wrote:
>> On Jun 30, 7:24 pm, kevpan815 <kevpan...@discussions.microsoft.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Re: That Windows XP Option Requires The Purchase Of A Vista License,
>>> Just
>>> FYI. Also, Notice That It Is 4 High End Home And Home Office Dell Gaming
>>> PC's
>>> Only, Also Just FYI.
>>
>> Ubuntu is Free;
>>
>> worth checking out, even for the hardest Core Vista fan
>>
>> http://www.dell.com/content/topics/s...=19&l=en&s=dhs
>>
>
> Yeah !
> Buy a high end gaming machine...then put ubuntu on it !
> Not !
> Unless you dual boot it with XP or Vista.
> Oh...and wine sucks for games