From: Michael A. Terrell on 22 Apr 2010 19:23 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? -- Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.
From: Jim Thompson on 22 Apr 2010 19:29 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 :-( ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | The only thing bipartisan in this country is hypocrisy
From: Michael A. Terrell on 22 Apr 2010 19:32 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? -- Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.
From: Rich Webb on 23 Apr 2010 07:47 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 22 Apr 2010 20:08
"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? ;-) -- Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to have a DD214, and a honorable discharge. |