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

[Geoffrey]

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

Last I checked, you could still purchase oem XP from both Microcenter 
and Vision computers.

> 
> 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
>> bob at verysecurelinux.com               [Please use for email to me]
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>> Quality spam and virus filters.
>> Quality Linux & UNIX security and SysAdmin & software consulting since 1990.
>>
>> "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
>> 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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Until later, Geoffrey

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