Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:34:15 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
"Reggie is Here wrote:

Throw Vista away.

On CNBC this morning, there was a segment on Vista and the guests to a
person said Vista is an unmitigated diaster and may be a sign of the
begining of the end for Microsoft as a market leader.

I saw a survey where they asked Vista users if they would prefer
keeping Vista or using the previous Windows version they were using.
90% of the Vista users wished they could have their old OS (WinXP,
Win98 etc.)

At one time, Vista's problems were writtten about and discussed in the
computer magazaines and forums, today you read about it in CNN, ABC,
AP and all of the other mainstream media.

Over 110,000 people have already signed the "Save WinXP" petition. MS
may want to put on blinders and ignore the users and try to bully
their way past all of this, but if they do, the experts on CNBC will
be correct.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h...6DntwD901KB280

http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/


SWS,

I really think

TROLL

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:26:24 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III" "Reggie is
Here wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:34:15 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
"Reggie is Here wrote:

Throw Vista away.

On CNBC this morning, there was a segment on Vista and the guests to a
person said Vista is an unmitigated diaster and may be a sign of the
begining of the end for Microsoft as a market leader.

I saw a survey where they asked Vista users if they would prefer keeping
Vista or using the previous Windows version they were using. 90% of the
Vista users wished they could have their old OS (WinXP, Win98 etc.)

At one time, Vista's problems were writtten about and discussed in the
computer magazaines and forums, today you read about it in CNN, ABC, AP
and all of the other mainstream media.

Over 110,000 people have already signed the "Save WinXP" petition. MS
may want to put on blinders and ignore the users and try to bully their
way past all of this, but if they do, the experts on CNBC will be correct.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h...6DntwD901KB280

http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/

Now they're up to 110,001.

Thanks for the info.
--
John *H*
(Not the other one!)

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:26:24 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
"Reggie is Here wrote:

At one time, Vista's problems were writtten about and discussed in the
computer magazaines and forums, today you read about it in CNN, ABC, AP
and all of the other mainstream media.

The segment was very interesting not so much from a trading
perspective as it was informative about Vista's problems.

Apparently, there are a lot of IT insiders who are petitioning MS to
continue to support XP until they get the Vista problems fixed.

Also mentioned was the "red circle of death" on the Xbox which is
continuing to be a problem for MS to the point where they have to put
quite a bit of money aside for the potential repair/warranty bill.

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:12:43 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:34:15 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
"Reggie is Here wrote:

Throw Vista away.

On CNBC this morning, there was a segment on Vista and the guests to a
person said Vista is an unmitigated diaster and may be a sign of the
begining of the end for Microsoft as a market leader.

I just spoke with a Toshiba representative about their laptops. They're
selling many with XP instead of Vista, and it's possible to get them that
way right now. No extra charge, of course. The Satellite X205-SLi5 looks
interesting.

http://tinyurl.com/5xd8v7
--
John *H*
(Not the other one!)

"HK" wrote in message
. ..
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:34:15 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
"Reggie is Here wrote:

Throw Vista away.

On CNBC this morning, there was a segment on Vista and the guests to a
person said Vista is an unmitigated diaster and may be a sign of the
begining of the end for Microsoft as a market leader.

I saw a survey where they asked Vista users if they would prefer keeping
Vista or using the previous Windows version they were using. 90% of the
Vista users wished they could have their old OS (WinXP, Win98 etc.)

At one time, Vista's problems were writtten about and discussed in the
computer magazaines and forums, today you read about it in CNN, ABC, AP
and all of the other mainstream media.

Over 110,000 people have already signed the "Save WinXP" petition. MS
may want to put on blinders and ignore the users and try to bully their
way past all of this, but if they do, the experts on CNBC will be
correct.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h...6DntwD901KB280

http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/


SWS,

I really think

TROLL

I think it's a case of Vista working just fine for many people, you
included. But....it's hard to deny there *are* lots of problems affecting
many people. Shades of ME, could be. I don't believe all the negative
publicity Vista is receiving is published just because someone has it in for
MS, there's something to it.

I also think MS does have a business problem, investors sure do. The stock
price has been essentially level for the past 8 years. I made good money in
MSFT but when the bubble burst the party was over.

Why do you think they are so hot to buy Yahoo. Their OS and Office software
just cannot sustain growth any longer.

HK wrote:
JimH wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
...
JimH wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" "Reggie is Here wrote in
message ...
InfoWorld and CIO are all saying YES.
Troll
Yup. Nothing but.

Just for Dick....... ~giggle~



Must be something in what remains of that Atlanta water supply, since
both Reggie and Loogie claim to live in that area, and both of them are
the predominant trolls here. And I see second hand that poor dumb Loogie
is *still* trying to get me to notice, poor little **** that he is. Too
much skanky homebrew beer and pot, maybe.

2nd hand? You are a lying POS, Krause. You read EVERY post - you can't
help it.

FOAD

John H. wrote:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:12:43 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:34:15 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
"Reggie is Here wrote:

Throw Vista away.
On CNBC this morning, there was a segment on Vista and the guests to a
person said Vista is an unmitigated diaster and may be a sign of the
begining of the end for Microsoft as a market leader.

I just spoke with a Toshiba representative about their laptops. They're
selling many with XP instead of Vista, and it's possible to get them that
way right now. No extra charge, of course. The Satellite X205-SLi5 looks
interesting.

http://tinyurl.com/5xd8v7

I researched Lenovo and they seem to have an excellent track record
selling and servicing to business users. They recently have set up an
educational division. My son's new school offers Dell, Apple and Lenovo
at an educational discount. When i asked the manager of the Computer
sales dept at my son's school, which PC he would recommend he said they
had substantially less problems with Lenovo.


http://shop.lenovo.com/

Lenovo

D.Duck wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:34:15 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
"Reggie is Here wrote:

Throw Vista away.
On CNBC this morning, there was a segment on Vista and the guests to a
person said Vista is an unmitigated diaster and may be a sign of the
begining of the end for Microsoft as a market leader.
I saw a survey where they asked Vista users if they would prefer keeping
Vista or using the previous Windows version they were using. 90% of the
Vista users wished they could have their old OS (WinXP, Win98 etc.)

At one time, Vista's problems were writtten about and discussed in the
computer magazaines and forums, today you read about it in CNN, ABC, AP
and all of the other mainstream media.

Over 110,000 people have already signed the "Save WinXP" petition. MS
may want to put on blinders and ignore the users and try to bully their
way past all of this, but if they do, the experts on CNBC will be
correct.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h...6DntwD901KB280

http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/

SWS,

I really think
TROLL

I think it's a case of Vista working just fine for many people, you
included. But....it's hard to deny there *are* lots of problems affecting
many people. Shades of ME, could be. I don't believe all the negative
publicity Vista is receiving is published just because someone has it in for
MS, there's something to it.

I also think MS does have a business problem, investors sure do. The stock
price has been essentially level for the past 8 years. I made good money in
MSFT but when the bubble burst the party was over.

Why do you think they are so hot to buy Yahoo. Their OS and Office software
just cannot sustain growth any longer.




I'm not denying some users are having "problems" with VISTA. I go back
to the original IBM PC, and I recall "problems" with DOS and with Win
98, 98, Win2K, XP, and Vista. I've had no major issues with VISTA.

I have a recent vintage Apple MacBook. Apple has OS problems, too. It is
now on the second Leopard OS 10.5 service pack (since last fall), and a
third is finishing up an extensive beta.

MS, of course, has the lion's share of the small comptuter OS market,
with probably hundreds of millions of users. There are probably 25,000
or more software packages that run under various iterations of Windows,
and probably 5,000 hardware devices for Windows machines, and many of
those require drivers and software that interact with the OS.

Naturally, there are going to be problems. How could it be otherwise?

What's so funny and pathetic here in this newsgroup is that we have a
couple of computer numnutzes, like, for example, "Reggie," and Herring,
and several more, people who know less about computers and computer
operating systems than my pet cats, and who post "clip'n'pastes" to make
it appear they do know something. Paying attention to these clods about
computers is like taking a ship's bridge operations class from the
former skipper of the Exxon Valdez.

Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
John H. wrote:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:12:43 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:34:15 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
"Reggie is Here wrote:

Throw Vista away.
On CNBC this morning, there was a segment on Vista and the guests to a
person said Vista is an unmitigated diaster and may be a sign of the
begining of the end for Microsoft as a market leader.

I just spoke with a Toshiba representative about their laptops. They're
selling many with XP instead of Vista, and it's possible to get them that
way right now. No extra charge, of course. The Satellite X205-SLi5 looks
interesting.

http://tinyurl.com/5xd8v7

I researched Lenovo and they seem to have an excellent track record
selling and servicing to business users. They recently have set up an
educational division. My son's new school offers Dell, Apple and Lenovo
at an educational discount. When i asked the manager of the Computer
sales dept at my son's school, which PC he would recommend he said they
had substantially less problems with Lenovo.


http://shop.lenovo.com/

Lenovo

Just beware of their memory sockets. They have had problems with them
failing and it costs too much to get the sockets replaced. You just run
the laptop on 1/2 of your memory until you can't stand it anymore and
then you purchase a new laptop from some other manufacturer.

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:12:43 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


On CNBC this morning, there was a segment on Vista and the guests to a
person said Vista is an unmitigated diaster and may be a sign of the
begining of the end for Microsoft as a market leader.

Well, they have one hell of a long way to go before they are not the
market leader, but . . .

With a several year build cycle for an OS, they sure as hell can't afford
to blow another one. It's also worth noting, MS Office 2007 isn't
burning up the sales either, and those are the only two product lines MS
makes money on.