There are places you can get an OEM copy of XP, so that if your laptop has a valid Microsoft license affixed, you can load the OEM copy.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@hotmail.com> To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 3:22:20 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Blogger: Windows 8 Set for July 2011 Release I'm not ina rush for the upgrade either, Tracey. I've been on XP since I got this laptop back in '06, but I'll definitely have to go up when D.X. here gives up the ghost, unless I luck out and find a place that carries XP on disc for me to roll back to. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: tdli...@multiculturaladvantage.com Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:54:14 -0800 Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Blogger: Windows 8 Set for July 2011 Release I used to recruit for them back in the day. Back then they had a very high retention rate. Until the sky fell last year, I was left with a similar impression, but it could be just senior and middle level managers who do not start their own thing stay forever. Most of the people I meet there have been their forever, or come back. I here so few mangers quit that it is hard to more up the ladder unless a new group is being formed . God forbid you get a project cancelled. Finding another good spot up the food chain is really hard. But I also have a few friends that say never again. I know that the only thing that could probably get my husband to go in as an employee is if he got a full time gig with the experimental group. He likes working on experimental projects. I used to worry he was going to get an offer, but after the crash last year, they slashed and burned many of the experimental groups so I doubt if they will be making any more overtures any time soon. These are very strange times at Microsoft. It’s almost cannibalistic. The company is trying to redefine itself beyond windows and Office, but those groups work to undercut groups working to compete with Apple, Google,Sony, etc. So efforts to move beyond the desktop are often harmed by insiders before they even go up against would be competitor My husband just started as a consultant with the Microsoft Apple group last week. He hated Vista, but likes 7. We still run XP for our business, but he is considering switching us over to 7. I going to have to put my ear to the ground about 8. But my gut is to wait, because there seems to always be some major bug. If we move to 7, I will be in no hurry to jump to 8 From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mr. Worf Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 7:40 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Blogger: Windows 8 Set for July 2011 Release They seem to waste a lot of their talent there. They have about a 50% turn over rate with 2 years. That number increases dramatically by year 5. The RTM dates are flexible. The problem is the info about products that are supposed to be a "secret." After all of the hype about windows 7 now we find out that just a year later that they will be releasing windows 8? That is a little disappointing. On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Tracey de Morsella < tdli...@multiculturaladvantage.com > wrote: I guess it’s payback time for how they are laying off, reducing salaries and overworking the Microsoft crew. From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Mr. Worf Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 4:56 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Blogger: Windows 8 Set for July 2011 Release M$ is pissed! Blogger: Windows 8 Set for July 2011 Release Less than six months after the release of Windows 7, a blogger claiming to be a former Microsoft employee posted a timeline outlining the software giant's product releases schedule for the next three years. Share this Article Digg Del.icio.us Newsvine Facebook Google LinkedIn MySpace Reddit Slashdot StumbleUpon Technorati Twitter Windows Live YahooBuzz FriendFeed Print this Article Comment on this article Email this Article January 28, 2010 Lies, half-truths and distortions are commonplace when it comes to rumors of new products, product release dates and management shakeups in the software industry. CodeGuru has the latest scuttlebutt from a blogger who posted his version of Microsoft's product release timeline through 2012. If it was a practical joke, Microsoft officials aren't laughing. A man who claimed to have worked for Microsoft until mid-January posted on his blog in early December a list of upcoming, unannounced products and his guesses on when they will ship. On that list is Windows 8, which the former employee—Chris Green—pegs as being "released to manufacturing" (RTM) on or around July 1, 2011. Green's list also predicts Office 2012 is targeted to RTM in July 2012, and Windows Server 2012 as going to RTM in July 2012. Earlier this week, that December post, and the chart that the former employee compiled, were spotted by Stephen Chapman, a blogger who already has a bit of a track record for finding sensitive Microsoft product timing documents. Chapman publicized Green's chart in a post on the Microsoft Kitchen blog (formerly known as the UX Evangelist blog) Wednesday. Green, whose name and former company e-mail address appears on at least one apparent Microsoft document online, did not respond to a request for comment by press time. Microsoft Kitchen's Chapman said he does not know Green and can't vouch for the accuracy of the future product names and dates, although he noted on his blog that Green's chart includes caveats regarding the accuracy of the information. Read the full story at CodeGuru: Cover Blown on Windows 8 Release? -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now.
