[Info-vax] newVMS, was: Re: [OT] Abbreviations, was: Re: Desperately Seeking OpenVMS ecosystem

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <f2f79535-2f78-4cab-9983-c8720a11079b at googlegroups.com>,
	AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes:
> On Sunday, December 8, 2013 4:49:47 PM UTC-5, johnwa... at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> 
>> E.g. Vista was a bit of a hiccup for MS, and Windows 8 seems to be headed the 
>> 
>> same way. Windows 7 hasn't exactly taken the world by storm. OK those are 
>> 
>> client/desktop products, but desktops make a lot of money for the MS world 
>> 
>> (which is much broader than just MS). Just how proven is a five-year-out 
>> 
>> bet-the-business gamble on MS? And who can answer questions like that anyway?
> 
> Just as a side comment, it seems that every other OS from MS sucks. OK, sucks 
> extra. Remember Windows ME? Then XP. Then Vista. Then Windows 7 (according to a 
> co-worker it's like XP, but with sucky sharing). Then Windows 8. So to maintain 
> the pattern, Win 95 would also suck donkey kong, while Win 98 would be "ok".
> 
> AEF
> 
> [...]

I keep seeing this "Vista sucked" stuff.  I don't get it.  I still have
two machines running Vista and see no reason to move them to anything
else.  They will probably remain Vista systems until the hardware they
run on dies.  Then I will have to decide wether or not to do another
Vista system as I will still have the licenses.

bill

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