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doublefresh:
Oh, now it's my fault bill gates is rich. LOL

600 copies at $200 each is less than $120,000

While I agree this is a huge sum of money it is not enough to make Bill rich.

It certainly was not my decision to buy this software either.

RudeCat7:
Well, I guess you're special...

One of the guys at work runs XP and normally only reads e-mail and uses m$ access. This computer has suffered from complete corruption SEVERAL times, and there is no explanation. It is a Dell, tech support says the hardware is fine, and they have actually blown us off because they have run every possibly diagnosis, and they conclude that it is a software problem. Software being win XP, outlook, office 2000, Norton AV 2002.

Hmmm.....I remember Double Fresh's first post...who would've known he was just a windoid troll.

TheQuirk:

quote:Originally posted by doublefresh:
Actually I'm a network administrator and my company  has 600+ licensed copies of MS products. As one of the IT guys I don't have a problem running MS products at home to learn to be a better network admin. I guess you could call it pirating but I prefer to call it training for work.

Again I did not say a single bad thing about any other OS. I agree Microsoft has evil built in but the OS itself is stable and does everything most people need it to.

If people need to badmouth MS do it for the real reason of Spyware and closed source. Don't bash it for crashing and being a crappy OS. It's just not true. Win 98 did crash every now and then but It's not 1988 any longer. MS corrected it's crashing problems.

If you want to compare Linux to Win 98 make sure you use a version of Linux from 1988.

And I have to say Linux in 1988 was not a user friendly system for begginers. I had to try 4 distros in 1988 before I found one that would work on my computer.

I just installed Mandrake 9.0 on this computer 5 minutes ago and I like it so far but I can't compare it to win 98 because as I said win 98 was made almost 5 years ago when a P233 was the fastest processor on the market.
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Hey, here's a hint: The "98" in "Windows 98" means that it was released around 1998, NOT 1988. And I will gladly compare any linux distro from 1998 to Windows 98, just to show you it's a piece of shit.

Linux was always stable - Windows 98 (or any Windows, for that matter) still has code from Windows 3.1.

preacher:
Your assumption is that we are morons because our computers crashed when we used to use Windows. That is funny. An experiment I did maybe a year and a half ago on my win98se box. I turned the computer on and did absolutely nothing to it. I ran no programs and touched nothing except those that started at boot time. I let the computer sit for days trying to see if I could get a super high uptime. After 7 days I come home from work to find a BSOD has occured. Im able to get out of that, but I notice that my computer is running very slow and the hard drive light just stays on. So I decide to get on the internet, and I find to my amazement that my modem no longer is detected. Im pissed at this point, so I decide to open up control panel to see what I can do when another BSOD occurs. This time nothing can free me and I reboot. After the reboot everything is fine again. Keep in mind other than trying to connect to the internet and look at the control panel, I did nothing. Shortly afterwords I switched to linux and found that after 66 days uptime, everything still ran perfectly smooth. I guess Im just a moron though.

xyle_one:
i have windows xp installed at work on a daul athlon 1.2ghz, 1gig registered ddr, geforce 4, 2ibm scsi drives, blah blah blah, and it is not stable. it crashes alot. i think i have reinstalled the os on that system about 7 times since i got it (september 2001). on my windows machine at home, i finally took xp off because of the crashing, i put 2000 on it. it still crashes, just not as much.
my parents are always calling bitching that their computer crashed. my girlfreinds windows machine crashes alot. one of my freinds is a systems administrator, he swears his sytems do not crash, but i was over at his house and he tried to show me a video, insted we got to see a windows blue screen. all of the computers at work crash regularly. our "server" (running windows 2000) has actually been up for *gasp* 35 days now. that is our record.
now, my redhat 8 install has never crashed, nor did my mandrake 8 or 9 install, or suse 8. they ran fine on a machine that windows couldnt run on.
my mac has not crashed. sometimes i have a program error in linux or mac, but they have never crashed.

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