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[philip paisley <ythe1300@xxxxxxxxx>]

We could also work in a hardware news section, new CPU, Video cards, Motherboards, and pre-built computers.


--- On Thu, 10/23/08, Charles Olsen <charles.olsen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Charles Olsen <charles.olsen@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Linuxmint-podcast-project] Hey all, here's an idea
> To: "Adam Hainstock" <hainzy@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linuxmint-podcast-project@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 8:01 AM
> Adam Hainstock wrote:
> > That's a great idea. I definitely think that this
> type of thing should 
> > be in there. But I didn't mean how to do Win2Lin
> things, I meant address 
> > new MS plans/schemes/announcements/whatever. You know,
> like "Blah blah 
> > blah is in Windows 7" or "Linux is an
> intellectual virus..." or even new 
> > accomplishments.
> 
> Yes, I definitely want something like this. Especially when
> Microsoft is 
> screwing over their users, like in this article of mine 
> (http://charlesolsen.typepad.com/charles_olsens_writings/2008/10/whose-pc-is-it.html)
> 
> where I talked about how Microsoft ignored users'
> settings for Windows 
> update, and updated PCs even when users had auto-update
> turned off.
> 
> And whatever Steve Ballmer is up to is usually
> entertaining.
> 
> But it wouldn't be just MS bashing. If they do get
> something right, we 
> can mention that too. I don't want to get a reputation
> for arbitrarily 
> hating Microsoft. If we get to that point, then everything
> we say is 
> suspect.
> 
> That, incidentally, is how they see me at the office. I
> spend most of 
> the day fighting with MS Word 2003, a program that keeps
> finding new 
> ways to screw me over. I spend a lot of the day cussing at
> Word.
> 
> One day recently I was talking to someone, and I said
> "Microsoft OneNote 
> is a good program." The woman in the cubicle next to
> me almost fell out 
> of her chair. She was astonished that I had said something
> positive 
> about Microsoft, or at least a Microsoft program.
> 
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