re: Windows XP. It's Just an O/S!
Tuesday, August 21, 2001 at 5:31 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ken Collins
(7 messages posted)
On your first complaint, it is true that whtout hardware and software, Windows XP
is useless. However, without the OS, the hardware and software are useless. In the
80s, there were standalone word processors in which the application software contained
the OS. The machines cost over $10,000 each and could not run any other software.
So I'm glad I have an OS that lets me run all sorts of applications from all sorts
of vendors. But if anyone would like to eliminate the OS as a separate entity, they
can probably pick up one of those old standalone word processors cheap, since no
one uses them anymore.
On your second complaint, writing Windows XP takes work. I imagine you get paid for
your work, why shouldn't the XP programmers get paid for their work just because
their boss is rich? Their boss donates huge amounts of money to charity, by the way.
He built a center in the worst neighborhood in my town to teach poor people computer
skills so that they could get high-tech jobs.
On your third complaint, the "secret number" business is very livable in my experience,
and it has no adverse affect people who don't pirate software. I recently read an
online newsletter that ran a poll on this topic. No one liked the registration scheme,
but the average reader of the newsletter installed their Microsoft software on ten
different machines!
If you don't like Windows XP, you can get a Macintosh or any one of seven flavors
of Linux, but I have to caution you that a friend of mine and his computer-savvy
son tried all seven and had bad luck with them all.
So what is wrong with this picture? Nothing I can see.
On Monday, August 13, 2001 at 5:38 pm, Gramps wrote:
>Whats wrong with this picture?
>Without hardware or software, Windows XP is worthless! I have to pay the richest
>man in the world $200 so I can run the software I bought in one store on the hardware
>I bought in another. Also, before I can do that, I have to let his O/S scan my machine
>so it can create a secret number that I have to phone in to Him so He can give me
>a 50 digit number that I have to enter into His O/S so it won't quit running after
>30 days!
>He keeps the keys to my computer. If I update to much hardware, it will quit working.
>I have to call Him again and get a new key.
>How many of you hope the Supreme Court has the stones to stop that Megalomaniac?
- Written in response to:
- Windows XP. It's Just an O/S! (Gramps: Monday, August 13, 2001 at 5:38 pm)
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