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AnonJr
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United States
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 Posted - 17 August 2008 : 10:42:27
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| Indeed. MS has enough money that they can fail at a lot of things for a while before they are in too much trouble. They can always pull an amazing turn around at any point in time too - a la IBM or Apple< |
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Carefree
Advanced Member
Philippines
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Posted - 17 August 2008 : 15:13:05
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For that matter, MS could declare bankruptcy after spending $800 billion or so, and the federal government would probably bail them out like it did the savings & loans, auto manufacturers, oil companies, etc. Seems like the more money you owe, the more likely that the feds will assist.
The small businessman is treated a bit differently. They tax the crap out of him, harass him with compliance issues (like installing wheelchair ramps, beveled and sloping sidewalks, and handicapped bathrooms). When was the last time you saw someone in a wheelchair delivering a broken tower to a computer repair facility? Have to have safety glass on windows (in case someone breaks in - don't want him to cut himself), etc., etc. They basically do everything possible to force small businessmen to close shop.< |
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Carefree
Advanced Member
Philippines
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Posted - 17 August 2008 : 15:19:43
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On the issue of whether Vista sucks, though, I have a few cents worth. I bought a new laptop for my daughter about a year ago. Came with Vista Premium. Tried to install MS Office 2007. 10 minutes later, was still waiting for the setup screen to open.
Got disgusted. Reformatted the drive, eliminating Vista partitioning, etc., installed XP. Installing Office? 1 second to open the setup screen.
XP - 10 out of 10, Vista -10 out of 10.
Built a powerhouse computer a month ago for a friend. (8GB DDR2 PCI800 memory, 1333 FSB, two core-2 quad 2.8 GHz processors, 512 MB DDR2 PCI Express, etc.)... On THAT computer, Vista is happy. But 99% of store-bought computers won't have that kind of system.< |
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JJenson
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USA
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Posted - 18 August 2008 : 09:54:03
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I have switched all of my computers but 1 to vista as well as got siblings who are not computer literate in any way to purchase computers with vista.
They have not had any issues with vista that I keep hearing about. They have all installed Office, Games for kids, and printers and so forth without issue. They didn't have to go out and buy new routers/printers/software just to run on their vista machines.
But I guess they just got lucky but so far dealing with about 7 computers in all with all of them running vista only 1 program wouldn't run tried to install on xp and still wouldn't
As far as saying that MS should make their OS work with older software/hardware this is not the case when people went from VHS to DVD they had to buy all their old VHS ina new format to make them work.
Any new game system for the most part will not play old games my wii will play gamecube but they won't let it play any of the old games like mario and goldeneye. Oh well dang nintendo.< |
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Coming End of Windows Era?
