Windows 8 - coming soon!!

[Boscoe]

On April 29th, the Long Term Support version of Ubuntu will be released,
a release that Mark Shuttleworth devoted all his time to so that Ubuntu
will finally shoot Windows out of the proverbial window. Get it at

Sales of Windows 7, launched in July last year, were behind a large part
of Microsoft’s 60 per cent increase in quarterly profits for the end of
2009. Bring it on...

 

[Bill Yanaire]

Windows 9 is coming after Windows 8. BFD.

Sales of Windows 7, launched in July last year, were behind a large part
of Microsoft’s 60 per cent increase in quarterly profits for the end of
2009. Bring it on...

 

[DanS]

Sales of Windows 7, launched in July last year, were behind
a large part of Microsoft’s 60 per cent increase in
quarterly profits for the end of 2009. Bring it on...

Of course it was. That's their flagship product.

.....especially since the development costs for 7 were far far
below the cost of Vista.

 

[Bill Yanaire]

You're assuming that Windows will be around then.

Of course it will. Windows 8 maybe out in 3 years. Give it a good 3 year
run and Windows 9 should be out by 2016. Microsoft will still be going
strong and Ubuntu will have another 5,000 users within the next 16 years.
Maybe 10,000 new users if they can work on something other than the spinning
cube! LOL!

 

[Bill Yanaire]

I doubt it.

Three years ago you thought Ubuntu would take over like wildfire. Guess
what? It didn't. In 5 years, Ubuntu will still be a piece of crap.

 

[Boscoe]

On 15/04/2010 8:15 PM, DanS wrote:>

Pssst.....ALL GUI OS's are Windows like....whether it be
Windows itself, the KDE desktop package, the GNOME desktop
package, Xfce, E, etc., or any of the pre-Windows GUI's like
Commodore's GEOS, or the Zenith one that MS copied to make
Windows 1.0, they all show a window, they all have some way to
launch programs, they all have a 'X' button in the top-right,
they all have a 'control panel', etc.

I thought the whole point of Linux was to be completely different to Windows
with jargon that is deliberately contrived simply to make it appear
different to Windows, which many hard-core Linux developers openly despise.

..

 

[Bob I]

Three years ago you thought Ubuntu would take over like wildfire. Guess
what? It didn't. In 5 years, Ubuntu will still be a piece of crap.

1%ers?

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10

 

[Drew]

I doubt it.

Windows will still be here and going strong long after you are gone! why you
may ask? Because there is nothing better out there yet! Oh and that includes
your wishful thinking about ubuntu which will not catch on just like we have
told you over and over and over and over and over ad nauseum!!

 

[DanS]

On 15/04/2010 8:15 PM, DanS wrote:>


I thought the whole point of Linux was to be completely
different to Windows with jargon that is deliberately
contrived simply to make it appear different to Windows,
which many hard-core Linux developers openly despise.

The purpose of Linux was to be a free OS.

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/rhasan/linux/

Linux itself *IS* different from Windows....a lot different.

Linux is *NOT* the GUI. That is a Linux desktop package.

The GUI portion you see is developed by other groups. The big
ones are KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and Enlightenment.

They each have their own features, and their own 'look'.

 

[Bill Yanaire]

You're behind the times. Macs, PCs and Linux can and do use GUIs. Linux
isn't just for geeks any more than Windows is.

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BULLSHIT. Windows is used by corporate America and most of the home users.
Linux is for geeks who can't get laid and have no social skills.

 

[Bill Yanaire]

Yawn.

That is what most people do when they hear about Ubuntu. YAWN.

 

[milt]

You are either the dumbest numbnutted idiot out there or you are just
plain stupid.. Which is it?

Neither, he's a troll, haven't you figured that out yet?

 

[Drew]

No, Frank, Drew and "Bill" are the trolls. Suggesting an alternative to
Windows 7 is 100% on topic. I help people here and on other news groups.
You need to rediscover what the meaning of a troll on Usenet is.

The only troll here is you Dumbass! We post topics or reply to topics about
windows as do all the rest that post here! You are the only TROLL who
specifically posts about a operating system that has nothing to do with
windows!.. You deny the fact that you are a troll which in itself makes you
a bigger dumbass!! Then you accuse others who respond to your useless posts
about nothing pertinent to windows which in turn makes you the biggest
dumbass! The bottom line here is you are either a dumbass a bigger dumbass
or the biggest dumbass which do you prefer!! What part of WINDOWS NEWSGROUP
DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND !!!!!

 

[TOM]

Kindergarten's recess is over, back to class children, and remember, our
goal for this semester is to try and act like big, grown-up
first-graders and stop calling each other naughty names.