[Klug-general] Offer: VB .Net manuals

[Thomas Edward Groves]

"pretty decent actually"
Compared to previous Windows - sure.
Compared to an evolved OS with lots of competition and interested input?
I think not.

Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: Karl Buckland <buckland.karl at googlemail.com>
To: Kent Linux User Group - General Topics <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Cc: Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Offer: VB .Net manuals


> 'We are the Microsoft'... Doesn't quite have the same ring to it?
>
> I think with Windows 7, they wanted to get away from the idea of using
> 'brand' names like 'Vista' and 'XP'. Whatever they did, it worked.
> Windows 7 is well received and sells well - much better than Vista.
>
> Anyway, why the random Microsoft bashing? I think Windows 7 is pretty
> decent actually.
>
> Karl
>
>
> On 11 March 2011 18:03, Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 11 March 2011 16:14, Julia Freeman <klug at quixotic.org.uk> wrote:
> >>
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> >> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 04:13:07PM +0000, Peter Childs wrote:
> >> > On the subject of Microsoft...
> >> > Window Seven always seam to remind me of the Borg. But this might
just
> >> > be
> >> > because I'm a Trekie at heart.
> >> >
> >> > ie to quote...
> >> >
> >> > This is Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero-One.
> >> > We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Your biological and
> >> > technological
> >> > distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile
> >> >
> >> > (Just replace the word Borg with Microsoft and you'll see what I
mean!)
> >>
> >> Or Apple, or Redhat or Sun or $Brand...
> >>
> >
> > Its more the bad choice Microsoft has for names.
> > Why Call it Windows 7
> > Its not a version number and the previous version was Vista and its not
> > really a whole version of change from vista anyway, more like Vista
SP2....
> > Peter.
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