[ale] Microsoft tries to reverse Vista's Impact on the environment

[Jim Kinney]

NewEgg still has XP Pro OEM disks for $150. These ship with SP3
installed so it shortens the upgrade time.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Bob Toxen<transam at verysecurelinux.com> wrote:
> I briefly played with Vista on a brand new laptop that I purchased to
> send to a good friend at his request.
>
> It was the slowest computer I ever have used for routine stuff.  For
> basic stuff it (about 2 GHz) was slower than Linux on my old 25 MHz
> laptop.  (Yes, slower than a 10,000% slower laptop running Linux.)
>
> My friend will be replacing Vista with XP.  (He needs M$-only apps and
> Knows about Linux.)
>
> Bob Toxen
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> them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where
> the shadows lie...and the Eye is everwatching"
> -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh with ... by Bob
>
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:03:15PM -0400, Richard Bronosky wrote:
>> First they push an OS that requires the most power hungry systems the
>> consumer market had ever seen. They go so far as to burn gratuitous
>> cycles to encrypt and decrypt data going in and out RAM because they
>> assume all their customers are criminals. Now they are going to make
>> it all better with http://www.microsoft-hohm.com/
>>
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