From: Michael A. Terrell on

Jim Thompson wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:56:26 -0700, John Larkin
> <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]
> >
> >Stupid Windows won't allow me to hide the ugly icon. Or to change the
> >icon to something more appropriate. Microsoft writes garbage.
> >
> [snip]
>
> Is that Windows 7 ??
>
> I certainly can hide it with Windows XP.


I wonder if '7' is the IQ of the ad agency that's doing the new
commercials?


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From: Jim Thompson on
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:23:17 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
<mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote:

>
>Jim Thompson wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:56:26 -0700, John Larkin
>> <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>> >
>> >Stupid Windows won't allow me to hide the ugly icon. Or to change the
>> >icon to something more appropriate. Microsoft writes garbage.
>> >
>> [snip]
>>
>> Is that Windows 7 ??
>>
>> I certainly can hide it with Windows XP.
>
>
> I wonder if '7' is the IQ of the ad agency that's doing the new
>commercials?

I'm getting concerned with all the horror stories I'm hearing about
Windows 7.

My PC collection is getting aged (except for the laptop), so
replacement is in the air :-(

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From: Michael A. Terrell on

Jim Thompson wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:23:17 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
> <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >Jim Thompson wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:56:26 -0700, John Larkin
> >> <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> [snip]
> >> >
> >> >Stupid Windows won't allow me to hide the ugly icon. Or to change the
> >> >icon to something more appropriate. Microsoft writes garbage.
> >> >
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >> Is that Windows 7 ??
> >>
> >> I certainly can hide it with Windows XP.
> >
> >
> > I wonder if '7' is the IQ of the ad agency that's doing the new
> >commercials?
>
> I'm getting concerned with all the horror stories I'm hearing about
> Windows 7.
>
> My PC collection is getting aged (except for the laptop), so
> replacement is in the air :-(


You can still upgrade your XP computers with new motherboards RAM and
hard drives, but who knows how long before MS drops all support &
updates?


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From: Rich Webb on
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:20:56 -0500, "krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz"
<krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote:


>We're not *quite* that bad. ;-) It was a P4 with XP. Office '07 killed it,
>so they finally bought me a new system. Why they wanted to go to Office '07,
>I'll never figure out. It sucks.

They probably upgraded for the same reason most people end up doing so:
somebody in the documentation pool (often, where available, in an
administrative support position) upgrades. Everyone else using those
documents discovers that the between-version interoperability just isn't
quite good enough, or is too slow, or doesn't exist at all. So, they
need to upgrade and then the upgrade push gets into *their*
documentation pool, and so it goes.

Not that Microsoft ever intended for that to happen, of course.

--
Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
From: Michael A. Terrell on

"krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:32:58 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
> <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >Jim Thompson wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:23:17 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
> >> <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> >Jim Thompson wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:56:26 -0700, John Larkin
> >> >> <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> [snip]
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Stupid Windows won't allow me to hide the ugly icon. Or to change the
> >> >> >icon to something more appropriate. Microsoft writes garbage.
> >> >> >
> >> >> [snip]
> >> >>
> >> >> Is that Windows 7 ??
> >> >>
> >> >> I certainly can hide it with Windows XP.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I wonder if '7' is the IQ of the ad agency that's doing the new
> >> >commercials?
> >>
> >> I'm getting concerned with all the horror stories I'm hearing about
> >> Windows 7.
> >>
> >> My PC collection is getting aged (except for the laptop), so
> >> replacement is in the air :-(
> >
> >
> > You can still upgrade your XP computers with new motherboards RAM and
> >hard drives, but who knows how long before MS drops all support &
> >updates?
>
> They've got to get corporations (well, one anyway) to roll out '7' first. My
> computer at work was just replaced, with an XP box.


Did it replace a Win 95, or WFWG 3.1? ;-)


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