JimH wrote:
" JimH" ask wrote in message
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"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
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HK wrote:
Microsoft: 88 Million Copies of Vista Shipped
Despite underwhelming consumers and being snubbed by enterprises,
Windows Vista's numbers keep growing.
Eric Lai, Computerworld
Friday, October 26, 2007 09:00 AM PDT

Despite underwhelming consumers and being snubbed by enterprises,
Windows Vista's numbers keep growing, with Microsoft Corp. saying
Thursday that it has now shipped *88 million copies* of the operating
system, almost double the number of copies of XP in the same amount of
time at its launch.
The 88 million figure mostly includes Vista-installed PCs bought by
consumers and small businesses,
JimH purchased Vista thinking it was great and the first thing he wanted
to do is figure out a way to tweak it so it wouldn't run so slow. It
just goes to show you PT Barnum was correct.
Hey dummy, I did not purchase Vista. I purchased a laptop with Vista for
my son.


BTW: Why are you so concerned about what decisions other people make?
What business is it of yours Jim Gallow, I mean Reggie? You are a regular
busybody.



We are just discussing Vista in general, you only come up in passing
because you mentioned your computer and you wanted to try to tweak it to
speed it up and free up resources.

John H. wrote:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:25:20 -0400, " JimH" ask wrote:

" JimH" ask wrote in message
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"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
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HK wrote:
Microsoft: 88 Million Copies of Vista Shipped
Despite underwhelming consumers and being snubbed by enterprises,
Windows Vista's numbers keep growing.
Eric Lai, Computerworld
Friday, October 26, 2007 09:00 AM PDT

Despite underwhelming consumers and being snubbed by enterprises,
Windows Vista's numbers keep growing, with Microsoft Corp. saying
Thursday that it has now shipped *88 million copies* of the operating
system, almost double the number of copies of XP in the same amount of
time at its launch.
The 88 million figure mostly includes Vista-installed PCs bought by
consumers and small businesses,
JimH purchased Vista thinking it was great and the first thing he wanted
to do is figure out a way to tweak it so it wouldn't run so slow. It
just goes to show you PT Barnum was correct.
Hey dummy, I did not purchase Vista. I purchased a laptop with Vista for
my son.

BTW: Why are you so concerned about what decisions other people make?
What business is it of yours Jim Gallow, I mean Reggie? You are a regular
busybody.


Jimh, if you don't want comments about the decisions you make, why do you
continue to tell us all your decisions?

JohnH,
Don't you think that is a tad bit too obvious?

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:03:32 -0500, John H.
wrote:

if you don't want comments about the decisions you make, why do you
continue to tell us all your decisions?

It's a given that all decisions and opinions posted here will be
examined, parsed and discussed in great detail. Those with thin skins
should not bother.

Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:03:32 -0500, John H.
wrote:

if you don't want comments about the decisions you make, why do you
continue to tell us all your decisions?

It's a given that all decisions and opinions posted here will be
examined, parsed and discussed in great detail. Those with thin skins
should not bother.

Wayne,
I hate to have to correct you on every post you make, but I think you
forgot the part about beating a dead horse.

JimH wrote:
"John H." wrote in message
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:25:20 -0400, " JimH" ask wrote:

" JimH" ask wrote in message
...
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
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HK wrote:
Microsoft: 88 Million Copies of Vista Shipped
Despite underwhelming consumers and being snubbed by enterprises,
Windows Vista's numbers keep growing.
Eric Lai, Computerworld
Friday, October 26, 2007 09:00 AM PDT

Despite underwhelming consumers and being snubbed by enterprises,
Windows Vista's numbers keep growing, with Microsoft Corp. saying
Thursday that it has now shipped *88 million copies* of the operating
system, almost double the number of copies of XP in the same amount of
time at its launch.
The 88 million figure mostly includes Vista-installed PCs bought by
consumers and small businesses,
JimH purchased Vista thinking it was great and the first thing he
wanted
to do is figure out a way to tweak it so it wouldn't run so slow. It
just goes to show you PT Barnum was correct.
Hey dummy, I did not purchase Vista. I purchased a laptop with Vista
for
my son.

BTW: Why are you so concerned about what decisions other people make?
What business is it of yours Jim Gallow, I mean Reggie? You are a regular
busybody.

Jimh, if you don't want comments about the decisions you make, why do you
continue to tell us all your decisions?

If you recall John, my question on Vista was to Harry. The dumb and dumber
twins then got into the picture and the thread went downhill from there.

What other "decisions" have I told you about and asked you to comment on
John.



JimH,
I would recommend you use email for those topics you don't want
discussed in rec.boats. If you don't know Harry's email address let me
know and I will send it to your email.

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:27:09 -0400, HK wrote:


Despite underwhelming consumers and being snubbed by enterprises,
Windows Vista's numbers keep growing, with Microsoft Corp. saying
Thursday that it has now shipped *88 million copies* of the operating
system, almost double the number of copies of XP in the same amount of
time at its launch.

Almost double? Doesn't seem that impressive when you consider the personal computer
market has almost doubled since XP was introduced. In 2002, there were 51 million PCs sold.
In 2007, 96 million are expected to be sold.

WaIIy wrote:


BTW, did your Vista come with a new computer or did you buy it outright
and if so, for what reason.


1. No.
2. Yes.
3. Because I wanted to buy it.

Every two years or so I assemble a new desktop computer from what I
believe to be the best or fastest or both components generally
available. The vendor from whom I bought the ASUS motherboard had some
good prices on VISTA OEM, so I asked him to tuck in a copy. So, not only
did I buy a copy of VISTA, I bought it from an OEM supplier sans OS
technical support.

The few issues I have had with VISTA have been minor and easy to
resolve. All of my software but one program works just fine on VISTA,
and when I connected up everything, it found all my hardware and
installed all the necessary drives, but for one, and that issue was
easily resolved.

I run this desktop on the bleeding edge. It is full of beta and even
some alpha software, and it has been rock steady.

It is kind of humorous that my actual experience with VISTA has been
relatively trouble-free and a good learning experience while so many of
you are the wimps I suspected you were.

But, then, I'm just an English major.

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:12:28 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

Did you see where Mac has doubled their market share since the
introduction of Vista. That is double the market share, not double the
units.


There are lots of people who like Macs but I'm not one of them. To me
they are too cutesy, over priced, over hyped and way too Apple
centric, which is of course the way Apple wants it. I'd probably get
serious about Linux before switching to a Mac.

Obviously not all consumers are as dumb as MS thought they were.

Not at all. Those who have been through the upgrade cycle a few times
are beginning to get quite savy about it. My friends and neighbors
tend to regard me as "their computer expert" and when I advise them to
wait, most nod in agreement. That would change if I heard some cogent
and compelling reasons to upgrade, and if the compatability issues
were largely behind us. I'm still running a lot of relatively old
software that does a good job at what I purchased it for. If it isn't
compatible with a new operating system, what's the point of upgrading
everything unless there are really good reasons? As it stands right
now you not only need a big hardware upgrade to run VISTA, but
probably need to upgrade your application suite as well. I'm
perfectly happy to let the early adopters sort things out, report on
their experiences, and help Microsoft get it debugged. Micrsoft
should compensate their beta testers in my opinion.

Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:03:32 -0500, John H.
wrote:

if you don't want comments about the decisions you make, why do you
continue to tell us all your decisions?

It's a given that all decisions and opinions posted here will be
examined, parsed and discussed in great detail.

Not by me. I already know whose posts are worth reading carefully and
whose are not. These days, I give your posts the 10 seconds they
deserve, but you do get more time than Reggie and a few others.

HK wrote:
WaIIy wrote:


BTW, did your Vista come with a new computer or did you buy it outright
and if so, for what reason.


1. No.
2. Yes.
3. Because I wanted to buy it.

Every two years or so I assemble a new desktop computer from what I
believe to be the best or fastest or both components generally
available. The vendor from whom I bought the ASUS motherboard had some
good prices on VISTA OEM, so I asked him to tuck in a copy. So, not only
did I buy a copy of VISTA, I bought it from an OEM supplier sans OS
technical support.

The few issues I have had with VISTA have been minor and easy to
resolve. All of my software but one program works just fine on VISTA,
and when I connected up everything, it found all my hardware and
installed all the necessary drives, but for one, and that issue was
easily resolved.

I run this desktop on the bleeding edge. It is full of beta and even
some alpha software, and it has been rock steady.

It is kind of humorous that my actual experience with VISTA has been
relatively trouble-free and a good learning experience while so many of
you are the wimps I suspected you were.

But, then, I'm just an English major.

Harry,
You are definitely on the bleeding edge. Absolutely every software
designer would tell you NEVER install alpa software on your working
desktop. Most would warn you not to install Beta software on your
working desktop.

But then again, you are an English major. Univ. of Kansas can crank out
some really smart ones.

How did you pick Univ. of Kansas out of all the the great state schools
in the general area. New York, Mass, New Jersey etc. While I don't
think of them as a top tier school, it definitely is head and shoulders
over Univ. of Kansas.