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Finally understand what MS is up to.
Name: Hmmm Date: June 22, 2002 at 15:45:08 Pacific
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MS have called their current Windows XP-why because eventuallly they'll put the X in front of the Windows and "WAMMO" MS has invented XWindows.
XP is short for eXperience and thats what it stands for.
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Response Number 4
Name: Hmmm Date: June 22, 2002 at 16:27:06 Pacific
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Its an experiance I'm happy to live without as long as possible thanks-product activation, yearly registration, it's all crap. Just paroniod bulls---.
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Response Number 5
Name: Jeff J Date: June 22, 2002 at 18:05:35 Pacific
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No, no, no. Everyone's obviously in the right spirit of the thing, but don't forget their mission. XP stands for Xtra Profit! You have to register it with them directly, which means more copies per household if there's more than 1 computer, and thus new meaning is brought to the phrase "to rape and pillage."
It's only temporary though, since many home users will get fed-up paying more for XP, and turn to linux and XP cracks. What's the expression? Ah yes, "Penny wise but pound foolish..."
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Response Number 6
Name: Hmmm Date: June 22, 2002 at 18:27:37 Pacific
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Hmm... XP cracks... I beleive it has a lot of them.
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Response Number 7
Name: junky_toof Date: June 23, 2002 at 01:26:36 Pacific
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I love a M$ joke along with everyone else, but everyone must admit that the new black screen of death is much nicer than the old, overinformative, blue screen of death that plagued all 9x users at irregular intervals daily.
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Response Number 8
Name: ramadog Date: June 23, 2002 at 02:59:08 Pacific
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It is not just 9x that blue screens. I had fun fixing a nt4 machine at work that was bue screening like a 95 box. The expresion on a person face when after saying how reliable 2000 is and having it blue screen on them is good value.
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Response Number 9
Name: Sparkchaser Date: June 23, 2002 at 06:49:08 Pacific
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XP hasn't eliminated the blue screen of death, it simply automated it. Under 9X, you had to turn off, and restart your system. With XP, it turns itself off saving you the bother of doing it yourself, and it also saves you the frustration of vainly attempting to save your work.
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Response Number 10
Name: junky_toof Date: June 23, 2002 at 08:55:49 Pacific
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Thoughtful little buggers M$, making crap code into a "feature" like that. You would think that they listen to their own horsesh*t too much.
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Response Number 11
Name: hmm#2 Date: June 23, 2002 at 15:08:37 Pacific
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XP.....stands for XPlode?
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Response Number 12
Name: Jeff J Date: June 23, 2002 at 15:52:33 Pacific
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Yes, a sentimental nod to the entire Windows experience. You know, as in the sound made whenever a poor sod whigged out after 9x crashed too many times, and the monitor was tossed out onto the tarmac. Others say it's what happens to one's temper, if CTRL+S isn't pressed in time...
Or maybe a guarantee: it will still XPlode.
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Response Number 13
Name: xnot Date: June 24, 2002 at 11:32:50 Pacific
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Ok lets use our time making linux better and not bashing M$... LET them just die away as they will!
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