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.
Brian

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

Cheers TT


Well it is free if you know where to look

"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.
Brian

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

Cheers TT
Well it is free if you know where to look

What service pack number is it up to already? And how many dodgy drivers
are included :-))

It will take a lot to get me away from XP Pro ;-)

Cheers TT

TT 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.
Brian

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

Cheers TT
Well it is free if you know where to look

What service pack number is it up to already? And how many dodgy drivers
are included :-))
so far proving not to need them

installed ferpectly on a quad xeon (3 gig) with 11 gig ram and 6x174
gig scsi...

It will take a lot to get me away from XP Pro ;-)
it's ok for a home o/s I guess
maybe you should try a real o/s from one of the unix areas ?

Cheers TT

"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.

ruff

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

"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
. ..

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.

ruff


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.

Keith

"TT" wrote in message
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"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.
Brian

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

Did you TT? I don't know anybody who bought it who is still using it. I have
had 3 computers running XP since 2002 and none of them have even come close
to falling over.

Why would you change?

ruff

"roughplanet" wrote in message
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"TT" wrote in message
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"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.
Brian

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

Did you TT?

No, not me. But I do have two daughters with Vista on their
laptops that I am the IT "eggspurt" for ;-) They use it as
a word processor and email/MSN device only. And because it
keeps asking them for admin rights they don't get to change
anything. Oh and they think it looks pretty ;-)

I don't know anybody who bought it who is still using it.
I have had 3 computers running XP since 2002 and none of
them have even come close to falling over.

Same here, 3 desktops and 2 laptops. I have even bought a
new Dell (El Cheapo for work) and *paid* to roll Vista back!


Why would you change?

Exactly. But I do have a mate that has just gone Apple.
Well that was an interesting exercise to say the least. He
keeps asking me if I know how to get things working. M$
maybe a PITA but at least I know how to stop making it itch
;-)

Cheers TT

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

Anybody too lazy to download Thunderbird (for free) deserves everything
that they get.

Keith

"keithr" wrote in message
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Brian Gaff wrote:

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

Anybody too lazy to download Thunderbird (for free) deserves everything
that they get.

Hear hear, as well as Firefox. M$ deserve everything that happens to them.

ruff

"George M. Middiot" wrote in
message

My Master and Commander just demanded that it be made Ethics
Commissioner for Usenet's audio groups.

As usual Middiot, you are very confused. My recent discussion with some of
the lesser members of the Middiot Posse related to cowardice, not ethics. Of
course as Senior Coward of the Middiot Posse, you would like to obfuscate
that fact.

Middiot, I wonder why you are still soldiering on after all these years? At
this point, you've rendered RAO totally useless for any reasonable purpose
at all. It appears that Bill Gates is going to render all of Usenet useless
with the next release of Windows. You've put forth all these years of
effort, and what you are left with is *nothing*.