At 10:30 AM 3/11/2006, Chuck Andrews typed:
I feel the life of an operating system should span the life of the
computer and I have not seen one shred of evidence to support the
idea that computers should not last at least 5 years. What is wrong
with the idea of selling the computer with the old operating system
on it and buying a new computer with the new operating system that
you want on it?
I purchased a Dell L400 that came with 98se on it 6 yrs ago. I nearly
instantly upgraded to Xp & have swapped out the mombo with cpu a
couple of times with out any problems & without having to call MSFT
but my point is there is no reason that 98se couldn't still be
running on it. So what's your point? The software & hardware for the
most part have lasted the 5+ yrs that you claim they should. I never
had to upgrade that machine to Xp if I didn't want to but I wanted to
for consistency sake.
For every power user who knows what he is getting and gets his
money's worth from an upgrade, there are 9 who attempt to upgrade
and it is not worth their money.
As per usual you do NOT quote any statical analysis from anywhere so
I must assume this is your opinion of which I do NOT share.
I have seen a few computers (and I did not build every one of them)
that I thought were worth upgrading the operating system on, but for
most, it is not worth it to anyone but Microsoft.
Of course if someone buys a system that barely meets the 98se
hardware requirements it'll certainly will NOT meet the Xp
requirements & the same will apply when going from Xp to
Vista. Again "for most, it is not worth it to anyone but Microsoft."
is your opinion which is unsupported by facts. If people think they
may need a machine to last 5+ yrs then they need to buy better
quality machine than the bottom of the line & if they still buy the
bottom of the line then no amount of crying about it will do any good.
I do not sell them Windows again. I use their Product Key on their
COA and I often have to call Microsoft. Windows costs $90.00 for an
upgrade or OEM and more for FULL. My total bill for a format and
reinstall job is only $50.00 and that is all labor.
Several times you've stated that if the end user didn't provide a CD
Key that you've FORCED them to buy another copy of Windows when the
CD Key is easily retrievable from a working OS with the likes of
Magical Jelly Bean's Key Finder <http://www.magicaljellybean.com/> &
they even make one for BartPE or XpPe that can be run remotely even
across a LAN.
Why charge them the $50 when all you need to do is cleanup which apps
are starting up. Actually this is a service that you could provide
for free at the clients home that Dell & the others can not that
would endear you to your prospective clients but instead you'd rather
complain how unfair things are.
Life is unfair, get over it. I have an incurable illness. Is that
fair? No but I don't complain about with nearly every post to this
or any other list.
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:59:52 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed
Windows XP is such a dog about being repairable
This is NOT true but you resist researching or listening here on how
to tweak a machine. Your philosophy has NOT changed over the years &
neither has your complaints.
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Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
<http://www.wavijo.com>
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