On 31/07/15 13:01, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , John
Rumm wrote:

On 31/7/2015 10:24, fred wrote:

Sweet J****s. Microsoft bashing. So predictable, so boring. This all

Indeed... its almost laughable how many times this thread repeats
itself, with the fanboys failing to understand that *they* are
frequently one of the reasons their pet technology it not currently
ruling the roost. All that technical nouse, and yet they can't answer
a simple question, but instead decide that berating the asker for not
doing it their favoured way.

Course I can't answer a "simple" Q about Windows. I have no intention
of *ever* being able to do so, either. At least, not someone else's
question, at ant rate. I had to delve into some of it to port my
software to Win7 and was less than impressed.

Those that highlighted that MS are a great marketing organisation
actually hit the nail on the head. They make sure that they sell a
consistent product and message, and that all the manufacturers
pre-load it.

If it is not pre-loaded on your new hardware then its not relevant -
game over.

It's certainly never been preloaded on any machine I've ever bought.

Its not been necessarily pre-loaded on any machine I have nought in te
past 20 years

Except the S/H stuff.


Google have demonstrated how you get a non MS OS in to the hands of jo
public with Android, an Apple with IOS.

And, in Apple's case, with OS X. They sell about 15 million Macs a
year, which is not peanuts.



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