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[Peter Cannon]

Christopher Hunter wrote:

>> Microsoft is going to have a choice "Please choose Firefox, Opera,
>> Chrome or have ours Explorer" If that's the case I want to see Explorer
>> available native, none of that wine crossover rubbish, in the repo's.
> 
> That doesn't make sense...

Yes it does, banging on about the EU directive is just stupid its like
school playground tactics "Miss miss its not fair they wont let me kick
the ball, make em stop wearing them Nike boots then maybe I've got a chance"

What has the EU Directive got to do with the quality of Windows 7
anyway? Are we saying "Rip out Explorer and stick Firefox in?" surely
that would make Windows 7 even better?

>>  I'm using 2007 but have tested it with 2010 as well and its fine.
> 
> Nope - it crashed.  It began to get slower at doing ANYTHING.

Hang on, did Office crash or was it Windows 7?
We've now done 487 installs of Windows 7 Pro and Ultimate and not one
has had an 'Office' problem, yes there have been some glitches with some
3rd party apps but that's to be expected you cant blame W7 for that.

> No.  "Windows Update" is badly broken, and F-Secure is a joke.  Windows
> Update actually broke some of the basic facilities of Windows.

Again not broken anything of my customers what 'facilities' are broken?
I'm intrigued.

> Because it wouldn't work.  The web page kept timing out - probably
> because of the huge number of people trying to "activate" the rubbish at
> the same time, and probably because they tried to host the webshite on a
> Windows server.

But you don't see a webpage just a pinging progress bar? Methinks this
is a classic 'user interface error'

>>  You clearly state later that your network failed which means you had 
>> Internet access so I'm a tad confused.
> 
> We started with working networking on both machines.  Shortly after
> "activation" the networking failed on one of them.

But 'Activation' has no effect whatsoever on your network capabilities
you're doing the classic customer comment "It worked fine till you
touched it" Activation does not break your connectivity period.

> No.  Because Windows is unstable crap.

Interesting, it was good enough for everybody until the 'freebie'
crashing crap came along. Have you seen the complaints about Karmic?

> No.  It's an abysmal, overpriced, bloated mess of a product, which still
> contains Cutler's undocumented, hacked together demonstration kernel and
> the same broken IP stack that its always had.

Over priced? wtf students can get it for £30 it costs a pathetic £147
for Ultimate and a measly £72 for the Home edition
http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/factfinder/search.asp?querytext=windows+7+home&image1.x=0&image1.y=0

>> Is it a threat to Linux? I doubt it.
> 
> No.  It's certainly no threat to Linux, but is a serious threat to
> Microsoft.  I'm tempted to run a book on how long they last...

I'll take that bet please what time scale you offering? Of course you'll
have to pay out to my great, great, great, great grand children

I never want to see Microsoft go away they are the benchmark we gauge
our popularity against, without them there would be very little
incentive 'to do better' after a year or so complacency would set in if
it was just Linux and Mac.

Slinging dirt at the opposition is a poor salesman's tactic and shows an
inability to promote your product or service as a quality alternative,
explaining the similarities with our products to theirs, and
demonstrating the reasons ours is better than theirs is a far more
effective and professional way.

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