[X4U] Re: Good Reading

[RR]

It's the industry's dirty little secret.  It's very expensive for our 
company to keep all the Windoze boxes functioning.  Most of my 
associates are "experts" and do a reasonable job at controlling the 
mess at work.  Most of us don't use windoze full time at home, it's 
just to big a headache.  I talked a friend into dumping her XP laptop 
and getting an iBook.  She was pretty upset with it for the first week 
or so, but she has warmed up to it.  Now you can't shut her up she 
raves about it so much.  She's a total novice, and was the perfect 
"mark" for all the malware vomit spewed into her windoze life.  Her old 
dell laptop?, the cat got to it and damn near caught it on fire, it's 
now languishing in the dump.

BTW: dell's quality control doesn't exist anymore, they are ravenous 
about squeezing price and schedule from their suppliers.  The net 
result is a pc that is a hyped piece of crap foisted on an unsuspecting 
public.  It's the physical equivalent of the vicious malware that comes 
to dominate the hard drive 8 minutes after you connect to the web.

Apples new motto should be- get a mac, get a life.

On Jul 17, 2005, at 9:13 AM, Timothy Luoma wrote:

>
> it astounds me what people will put up with, esp. Windows users.
>
> I've seen people who had to login 6 times.  Why? To access shared 
> network
> printers that they NEVER USED and had never complained about because 
> they
> assumed nothing could be done.
>
> Others put up with popups because they thought they had to.
>
> Ick
>
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