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Hey, WinME was a killer app! |
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MS were really smart with it and if they used the same philosophy with vista, how different things could have been! |
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WinME killed so many systems, user experiences and expectations that when 2k came along every one was so pleased to upgrade (nt4 was never really pushed to users) :) |
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W.Kenworthy |
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On 01/02/2012, at 1:30, "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote |
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>>> Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office "how long before someone makes a pointless, unrelated Windows insult out of my post" pool; I just won $5. |
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>> I was using Win3.1 - and was happy with it |
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>> I was using Win95 - and was happy with it |
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>> I was using WinNT4 - and was happy with it |
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>> I was using Win2000 - and was happy with it |
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>> I was using Win Server 2003 - and was happy with it |
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>> I was using Win7 - and was happy with it |
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>> And I am also a Linux SuSe user since 6.0 and Gentoo user since |
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>> 1.something (but up until now just on the servers). |
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>> I made the final switch from Windows to Linux on my Workstation (Gentoo) |
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>> and Notebook (Lubuntu) only a few month ago. |
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>> So please, don't accuse me of making Windows insults. |
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> I feel that Win98SE was the best Windows ever, and could've been even |
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> more of a killer if Microsoft hadn't so stupidly tried to ram ActiveX |
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> down people's throats. Remove ActiveX, and 99% of "drive-by-downloads" |
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> would've disappeared. WinME was a sad joke, however. |
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> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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