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An open letter to Bill Gates by BBC reporter

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praka123
praka123 Original post #1
Feb 17, 2007 at 3:34 PM
Robert Peston ,the BBC's business editor blogged an open letter to Mr.Bill Gates :
Dear Bill Gates
Give me back my weekend. I bought a new Windows Vista laptop – and that’s when the trouble began.
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read more:
*www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2007/02/an_open_letter_to_bill_gates.html

even BBC tried selected two readers to explain what they like and don't like about the new operating system and two readers who are extolling the virtues of rival systems - the open source platform Linux and Apple's Mac OS X.
Your reviews: Vista and rivals
read:
*news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6309425.stm
Pathik
Pathik #2
Feb 17, 2007 at 3:47 PM
well he can revert back to xp if he has problems wit vista.... wher s the question of defecting to steve jobs???
ilugd
ilugd #3
Feb 17, 2007 at 4:40 PM
Vista is preinstalled on that, isn't it? How can he revert. But the advice about service pack 1 is true. Wait for the other fools to finish the testing for microsoft.
rajasekharan
Feb 17, 2007 at 5:27 PM
yes you cant revert back . . most of laptops comes preinstalled windows with out cd , in this case vista . and MS dont allow xp to be replaced instead of vista .you need to buy it separately . i dont think they should preinstall vista in laptops . they should wait for sp1 :).
subratabera
Feb 17, 2007 at 5:42 PM
Vista rejects my HP IPAQ handheld device – even though the software for that was created by Microsoft!
What a pity...
deepak.krishnan
Feb 17, 2007 at 8:04 PM
praka123 said:
Robert Peston ,the BBC's business editor blogged an open letter to Mr.Bill Gates :

read more:
*www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2007/02/an_open_letter_to_bill_gates.html

even BBC tried selected two readers to explain what they like and don't like about the new operating system and two readers who are extolling the virtues of rival systems - the open source platform Linux and Apple's Mac OS X.
Your reviews: Vista and rivals
read:
*news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6309425.stm

who asked him to buy Vista before reviews from others???
piyush gupta
Mar 7, 2007 at 1:34 PM
@UFO007

LOL what a reaction time tune to reaction time main Jonty Rhodes ka bhi record break kar diya
deepak.krishnan
Mar 7, 2007 at 3:40 PM
ax3 said:
@UFO007 ...... LOL ....... whot a reaction ......
thanks man!!!
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piyush gupta said:
@UFO007

LOL what a reaction time tune to reaction time main Jonty Rhodes ka bhi record break kar diya
thanks
R
Mar 7, 2007 at 9:29 PM
The fact is that whether we like it or not we are mired in microsoft windows systems.
aryayush
aryayush #11
Mar 7, 2007 at 10:59 PM
Not me. Not those lots of other people who have sense enough to use either Macintosh or Linux.
Not you, even - if you choose to! It is just about making a right, logical choice and not following the crowd. :)