roughplanet wrote:
"keithr" wrote in message
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roughplanet wrote:

"atec 77" "atec 7 7 wrote in message
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TT wrote:

"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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Never mind folks as Msoft will not be shipping a news reader with
Windows 7, nobody will know Usenet exists anyway after that.

Do believe after the fiasco of Vista that anyone will actually go to
the next M$ operating system?

Well it is free if you know where to look

That is, until one late night when you've misplaced your glasses you
allow Micro$oft's Genuine Advantage so-called 'update' download onto your
machine & then up comes a message that says that the software isn't
genuine & the screen changes to black!

Great stuff. But a $225.00 purchase of a genuine Micro$soft WinXP will
alleviate the problem, and after all, everyone should own at least one
genuine copy.

He's talking about a free beta which self-destructs in August. I've been
trying it, it's not too bad, a lot better than Vista, but I'll stick with
my XP pro for now. Linux is OK but Photoshop doesn't run too well under it
and The Gimp is a pretty poor substitute. Its also kind of difficult to
develop C# apps under Linux.

Then use Python instead. It's a bloody sight easier to use & the outcomes,
in my experience, are pretty much the same, if a tad slower. Besides, you
can hang it on C++ code with a linker & voila! You have your app ready made
:-).

Never tried Python, I make my living with C#, Delphi, a little Perl, and
a weird scripting language that probably not more than 20 people in the
world use (or want to use). They all require Windows.

I especially dislike C++ and Java, but I suspect that I will have to use
the latter at some point. I've been writing in Delphi on and off for the
last 14 years, but it is dying and C# is similar enough to seem familiar
(they were both architected by the same man)

I have used Linux on and off over the years, especially SUSE but never
for serious work.

Keith