Posted on 06/25/2008 9:56:55 AM PDT by HAL9000
But it does keep a lot of people employed trying to service this poorly designed platform.
Best comment at the P-I blog:
“Someone should tell Billy you can DL it directly from piratebay.org :)”
}:-)4
Purchasing Macs is/was a metrosexual, hippie, anti-establishment fad that is/was funded by the large amounts of home equity that people have been throwing around. Windows bashing goes hand-in-hand with the Bush-bashing that's been going on for the past eight years. Same crowd.
To be fair, it does seem that Gates is mostly complaining about the Microsoft website and the way it’s set up to interact (or NOT interact!) with Windows...
Most of those problems aren’t Windows, they’re MS’s website, which has been crap since day one.
I haven’t beeb Bush bashing, far from it. But I’m about to find out if my computer with Windows Vista on it can float in a little pond near my house.
My son DLed a “critical update” to his vista laptop this week. Now he gets no internet connection. Gotta love windows.
This is great, for so many reasons, one of which you know, HAL. Anyway, instant karma downloads on Bill Gates.
If Bill Gates had trouble installing Movie Maker, then he might be better off with a MAC. People who are so easily confused should keep it simple.
I read somewhere that Ballmer’s frustration with removing spyware from a friend’s PC was one of the prime motivators behind Windows Defender.
“Purchasing Macs is/was a metrosexual, hippie, anti-establishment fad that is/was funded by the large amounts of home equity that people have been throwing around. Windows bashing goes hand-in-hand with the Bush-bashing that’s been going on for the past eight years. Same crowd.”
They are no different than Obama supporters and the Kos Kids.
Frankly I’m waiting for them to go so far off the deep end that they will cut an ad with a lady telling Bill Gates that Microsoft cant have my baby.
Neither group can give you a reason to go with them rather they give endless rants on why you should hate the other side.
You got that right! The web designer should get thirty lashes before being baned from web design for life. I'm pretty sure I'd rather chew tinfoil than find and load software or patches from the MS site.
Bill Gates "buys" stuff from Microsoft? He goes to Microsoft.com to do that? He refers to Microsoft as "they"?
I find that strange.
And the saddest part is the site just keeps getting worse. Every time they change it it just gets busier and harder to navigate.
?????!
Nice to see that Bill Gates is still checking up on the people though. From what I've heard his management style was harsh, but effective. He had no problem coming down hard on top execs if even a low-position person made a good case against the status-quo. I have one specific case of that.
You can’t look at everything from a political lens. I am a staunch conservative, support Bush on most issues and love America. And I love my MAC because it is just a superior products with a much better user experience. Rush uses Macs and like him I don’t subscribe to the liberal ideology of Apple. I used Windows for years and in 1 year of owning a MAC, I have never had a crash, error message and it boots up in 5 seconds. Find me a Windows user that can say that.
Baloney. George Bush used a Mac before he was elected, and he'll use one after his term expires and he can start using computers again.
As Conservatives, we expect quality and value in the products we purchase. On that basis, Macs are a better choice than Windows.
Windows is the perfect OS for self-loathing liberals; it suits their sado-masochistic tendencies.
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