i personally believe that the only reason for anyone to be involved with a microsoft product is if you are one of the legions who make a living at supporting users of microsoft products. otherwise, it's just plain stupidity.
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Loren Faeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You said it: I will believe it when I see it. I have NO plans to > replace XP with any other M$ product. My 03 servers are fine. I > love the mac books! Fast, light, sleek, no 2 -3 lb power > supply. You get your choice of OSX of XP at boot, or running XP in > parallels. > > With OSX, there is one version to support. Vista has how many > versions? server has 4 versions Sheesh! then there is 2 verions of > xp and all the subversions: mobile and all the crap. Tell me again > that a Mac costs more? I simply don't believe it. > > Mac shops do not have an army of PC support staff. They just don't > need it. What costs more, a $100 car that needs constant > intervention and $$$$$ or a $200 car that just runs? (MB content) > > Gartner is late. I called this 2 years ago. TO their credit, M$ has > released some products that make a good case for staying on their > platform in the corporate world, but in comparison to XP/ Office > 2003, MS is looks bad compared to OSX and LInux > > > > At 12:48 PM 4/15/2008, you wrote: > > >Yawn, they haven't heard of Windows 7. Its in development and is > >purported to have a kernal size more like Windows 98 but on the NT > >type OS standard. Goodbye bloatware. > > > >Apparently Microsoft is listening and Vista will be the Windows Me > >of its generation. > > > >I know I know, I'll believe it when I see it. > > > >-Curt > > > >Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:22:59 -0400 > >From: "Allan Streib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: [MBZ] OT: Gartner predicts the collapse of Windows > >To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <[email protected]> > >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" > > > > > http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9076698 > > > > > >Pretty much say that Windows has become too bloated and unmanageable, > > it > >will not be able to keep up in the future without pretty dramatic > >changes. > > > >Allan > >-- > >1983 300D > > > > between 0000-00-00 and 9999-99-99 > >_______________________________________ > >http://www.okiebenz.com > >For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > >For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > Loren Faeth > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
