Comments on: Love Will Tear Us Apart: Microsoft Wants Its Laptops Back

By: Dave Florence

Dave Florence — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:52:36 +0000

Good gesture by M$, too bad they did not think it through before sending them out. From the various blogs I have read, seems like M$ jumped the gun as usual and missrepresented themselves again. Oh…the poor whiners.
I will stick to my 64bit Linux box and avoid all the headaches and cost

By: dop

dop — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:47:44 +0000

All the guys that are complaining, are just being jealous. And in this point of view, are incapable of doing moral remarks.

By: NW Guy

NW Guy — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:11:01 +0000

Devo….any chance that you will provide “facts” on MSFT direction here?

Sorry that I have to stand in line behind Paul and bpm…maybe MSFT will send one to each host on CrunchGear so taht I won’t be left out???

By: Here, here and here

Here, here and here — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:52:16 +0000

Adesso basta. Chiudi queste finestre se ti pare e non perdere più tempo e pazienza per me. Ci sono altre cose migliori da fare, questo è certo. Cara, quando parlavo di un fratello parlavo di un fratello vero, non di un grande fratello. Non verrò più nella google machine. Se hai cose da dirmi o da mostrarmi sai come fare. (a parte il fatto che per ora non sono neanche riuscito ad installare la posta elettronica personale). Grazie per i virus comunque. Buone vacanze.

By: bpm2000

bpm2000 — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:49:55 +0000

Seriously guys if you want to pass on said bribes send em my way. Dibs after Paul.

By: Keep The Laptop, Uninstall Vista, Install XP

Keep The Laptop, Uninstall Vista, Install XP — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:22:19 +0000

Just keep the fucking Laptops, make a mirror backup on the Vista installation of the harddrive, format, install XP, be happy using the Laptop for as long as you like, and write a Blog review about how well that XP is working on the no-longer-Vista Laptop that Microsoft gave to you. That’ll teach Microsoft. Neener, Neener, Neener.

By: Paul Thompson

Paul Thompson — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:15:05 +0000

@ Anthony…..

Thanks for the tips, I appreciate that much. I have plans to replace my current older laptop eventually. When I do that (probably in the Spring or Summer of 2007) I’ll likely do the move to Vista.

Until then, it just wouldn’t be worth the extra cost and effort of moving over…….

By: drdrew

drdrew — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:21:10 +0000

“They just forgot that bloggers are usually whiny punks.”

John, too easy… :)

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:26:29 +0000

@ Paul

I’ve ran RC2 and RTM for a while and it’s fantastic! I really like it and I will be purchasing it when it comes out. My only gripe is that hardware manufactures are dragging their feet on developing good drivers for vista, especially the 64bit version. Something to think about if you are going to hooking up cameras and printers to your vista set up.

By: Paul Thompson

Paul Thompson — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:24:01 +0000

I for one will accept any said laptops from companies, evil or not…. And to top it off, I am actually looking forward to moving to vista. (I’m a photography geek and saw some features in the beta that I really liked…)

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:20:08 +0000

A seemingly good jester, and easy publicity tool, is going to turn into mayhem for Microsoft. Anyone who writes a blog that is somewhat tech related is going to wondering why they didn’t get one to ‘give away’ and will be complaining about it. It’s hard enough reading a story about vista only to hear that the OS is doomed because the activation was cracked a few times. Now, I have dig though all the dribble about how the respective blog writer didn’t get their laptop. :-(