XP Reloaded
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/02/26/2156254.shtml
Let the jokes begin!
I like this one: "Neo: What are you trying to tell me that I can dodge worms?
Morpheus: No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you install Linux, you won't have to."
And of course... XP "Rebooted" and "I already have it, I reload XP twice daily!"
This as one person pointed out is good for Linux and OS X in the long term because it looks like Copland: MS usually does this (charges for a SE or service pack) when their long term project date starts slipping.
Let the jokes begin!
I like this one: "Neo: What are you trying to tell me that I can dodge worms?
Morpheus: No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you install Linux, you won't have to."
And of course... XP "Rebooted" and "I already have it, I reload XP twice daily!"
This as one person pointed out is good for Linux and OS X in the long term because it looks like Copland: MS usually does this (charges for a SE or service pack) when their long term project date starts slipping.
Comments
death to M$
Morpheus: Show me.
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Morpheus: Unfortunately, no one can be....told what a Blue screen is...you have to see it for yourself.
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Agent Smith: Like the dinosaur.....Look at that windows box. It had it's time. The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time.
Microsoft has decided that 2007-08 is a bit too long for another workstation release. So they decided to release an upgrade (read: unified bugfix/security patch that we'll have to pay for) of XP... and they gave it a cheesy Matrix title. Frankly, they should be a little more honest and call it "Windows XP Millennium Edition".
[snip URL]
"Calling it an interim release is overstating the current plan," Sullivan said. "We are exploring ways to add value to Windows XP."
[translate]"Our ambitions with Longhorn are overreaching and running into resistance. They're affecting the bottom line for FY '05-'06," Sullivan said. "We're desperate to dazzle the (L)users to keep them from switching to Linux or OS X which are whizzing on us like spry, little puppies."[/translate]
"However, Directions on Microsoft analyst Rob Helm said that any new version of Windows is likely to slow Longhorn's arrival."
[translate]"This steer is officially beef."[/translate]
Screed
Note to MS, pick a trilogy that doesn't suck.
"The Wrath of--" no...
"XP: Nemesis" nope...
Screed
Originally posted by sCreeD
Well if they stayed in the SciFi genre, a sequel that didn't suck was "The Empire Strikes Back," but that of course would be way, way, waaaay too honest.
"The Wrath of--" no...
"XP: Nemesis" nope...
Screed
XP, The next generation, hire William shattner as a pitch man.
or
xp SG-2
hummm.......a tie over/$grab before the next big release, i remember this didnt they call it M.E. the last time?
after thought:
windows TZE, (Twilite zone edition), black and white wall paper, and office clippy is now windows standard and has a very ominous and deep voice describing every thing that you are doing on the PC
To borrow from Dave Chappelle: a scowling Clippy in the bottom right corner. Something goes wrong. In the voice of James Earl Jones,
"Your application has crashed. I'm Clippy, bitch."
Screed
XP reloaded => term used to describe the act of paying M$ more money to reload the same buggy operating system into your PC.
I think the minimum system requirements will be doubled just to keep the hardware partners happy.
Originally posted by a_greer
XP, The next generation, hire William shattner as a pitch man.
They definitely wouldn't be the first...
lprng
Originally posted by Eugene
They definitely wouldn't be the first...
lprng
well, dua, it fits their image,wait for others to invent, reverse enginer and modify ever so slightly and whala - windows(and all other m$ apps)