[MLUG - DISCUSSION] interesting note on quad core chips

[Jim Locke]

Agree completely.
CPU and Graphics card makers would have less incentive to make it
better/faster if there wasn't a need from more Windows bloat.
MS charges from the $100s to the $400s for Vista, depending on the Edition.
I think this is an absolute F-ing joke.  Then they hide it in the price of a
box, so a user needs to shell out an extra $100 plus for XP, to DOWNGRADE if
they don't want the latest.

I told my dad you could not pay me $100 to go to Vista on our home box.
Maybe, possibly in a VMWARE Server guest OS to play with it, but I have
better things to do than wait for MS's recent piece of crap/bloatware.

Maybe Google is working on an OS.

Now, let me tell you how I really feel.....   :)

On Nov 29, 2007 11:00 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Jim Locke wrote:
>
> > Wintel machines are not really much faster doing some things than they
> > were years back, especially if running Vista.  Chip companies make
> > faster chips and Windows adds more bloat.
>
>
> I have wondered if Intel and Windows were colluding to get more money out
> of us.  For example, maybe Microsoft creates the need for faster computers
> by writing inefficient code and Intel does something to repay them.  When
> you have a monopoly, you don't have to worry about competing by writing
> better code.
>
> Windows has sunk so far it is amazing.  It seems like almost everyone
> hates Vista.  Meanwhile, Ubuntu and other Linux distros have been
> improving by leaps and bounds.  It seems certain that the success of Linux
> will start soon to have an impact on Microsoft.  Many people will buy the
> FUD and accept the lock-in and not even try to do anything for themselves,
> so Microsoft is in little danger of extinction, but they will lose more
> market share if they don't snap out of it.  Both Mac and Linux are
> grabbing bigger pieces of the pie.
>
> Mike
>
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