- XP-lite - something feels funny
- Posted by kevin bailey on February 12th, 2004
http://www.techworld.com/news/index....ws&newsid=1002
xp-lite? what would that be?
just what are they going to remove? surely an os is supposed to be 'lite'?
i suppose they could remove wordpad and just leave notepad.
and can we buy copies?
if they are going to be selling a cheaper version of windows to other
countries what is to stop resellers from suppling europe and the US - i
mean as long as its in english.
does this mean that MS are actually just about to start drastically prince
cutting windows?
what about the server editions - windows 2003 server data center lite?
something feels and smells funny.
- Posted by Peter Jensen on February 12th, 2004
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kevin bailey wrote:
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It's pretty obvious. They just want a legitimate reason to lower prices
in the regions of the world they're getting killed in, without lowering
the prices everywhere. Had they just gone ahead and sold regular
Windows at a lower price, people would start to question whether Windows
is really worth what they're paying for it (it's not, but not too many
people know this). A lot of other products are sold cheaper in some
markets, but it's usually because of lower raw material and labor cost.
That doesn't affect a software product that's basically the same
everywhere.
On a side-note, you're not much for upper-case letters, are you?
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- Posted by john on February 12th, 2004
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:31:53 +0000, kevin bailey wrote:
Of course it does...this is Microsoft. But:
"The fact that Microsoft is going to the trouble of producing a cut-down
OS is extremely significant. It demonstrates, more than ever before, how
Linux and the rise of open-source software has caused the market to drive
Microsoft, rather than the other way around."
That's the point.
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- Posted by Erik Funkenbusch on February 12th, 2004
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:31:53 +0000, kevin bailey wrote:
There's actually a ton that could be removed. Every copy of windows comes
with about 50+ services that are of little to no use to a home user. For
example, the Distributed Link Tracking service.
- Posted by Linønut on February 12th, 2004
Fearing a spontaneous XP reboot, kevin bailey mumbled this incantation:
XP-Lite will be XP Home with a couple of tweaks to the Registry.
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- Posted by Kirk Morris on February 15th, 2004
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:37:15 +0000, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
Go tell this to people who care.
We have no use for it or for you.
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- Posted by Milo T. on February 15th, 2004
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 00:51:10 -0500, Kirk Morris wrote:
Kevin obviously cares. Otherwise he wouldn't be asking.
Are you really that stupid that you can't figure that out by reading the
posts you're replying to?
God you're dense.
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- Posted by John Bailo on February 15th, 2004
Milo T. wrote:
You want real speed? Get rid of 90% of the useless File Associations in the
registry. Remember everytime you click on a file in windos, it has to do a
Registry search to find the app to launch. Most of those associations are
crap. Many of them are from failed microshit projects from years ago.
You are a shitfuck. Get the fuck out of my newsgroup.
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- Posted by Kirk Morris on February 15th, 2004
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 06:16:41 +0000, Milo T. wrote:
Please, don't call me God.
If being smarter than you constituted Divinity, than COLA would have
created a whole new pantheon.
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- Posted by Milo T. on February 15th, 2004
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 12:59:42 -0500, Kirk Morris wrote:
Delusions of grandeur too, Kirk? On top of the stupidity? Wow.
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- Posted by Philip Callan on February 15th, 2004
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|>God you're dense.
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| Please, don't call me God.
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| If being smarter than you constituted Divinity, than COLA would have
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LMAO!
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- Posted by Kirk Morris on February 17th, 2004
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 20:00:17 +0000, Milo T. wrote:
Really makes you envious, doesn't it?
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- Posted by Milo T. on February 17th, 2004
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:30:59 -0500, Kirk Morris wrote:
No, you're just getting tiresome, actually. Welcome to the scorefile.
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