Re: Sounds like Ubuntu is the way for YOU

Bill Yanaire wrote:
"Kevin Young" <KY.NNTP.NoSPAM@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:unzdYE$2IHA.5088@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hobbes wrote:
I view this forum thru aoie.org ... ringmaster(Albright) post are deleted from there too.

A vengeful sheep is getting even with him. :)

I agree you should be able to gripe here...it a forum for general vista discussion. It doesn't say technical help only.
I "scam" corrected Hobbes! ;-)

This will be my last post to this thread so if others want the last word feel free to jump in. This little adventure in to Anytime Upgrade land has made me realize that I can no longer do business with a company that in my opinion is screwing it's own customers with it's pricing. I don't expect that my departure will have any impact on a multi-billion dollar corporation like MS but if enough people eventually come to the same conclusion it may have some small impact. If not, that will be fine as at least I will be doing what I believe is right.

I was going to upgrade to Ultimate on my latest machine and would have also purchased a license for Office 2007. Instead what I did today was removed the Office 2007 trial from the mini and installed OpenOffice. I also transfered all of my email accounts off the MS WLHotmail servers and now have them hosted on Google Apps. I'm switching back from Outlook\WLM to Thunderbird and Firefox is now my default browser. MS will not be seeing another dollar from me so Windows 7 will not be in the cards and eventually I will do a total migration to Linux. I've ran Vista and Ubuntu in tandem for several months so I know what to expect and I am not making this decision blindly. I hope that someone in MS reads this and really thinks about how they are running the Company and treating their customers. If not, so be it.

If others are happy with MS all the power to you but for me this has been the last straw. My decision was not based on the quality of their products like some but rather business practices that to me seem unethical.

Sounds like you are having so many problems with Microsoft, it would be better for YOU in the short term to ditch Microsoft software and install Ubuntu and their OpenSores Office. That is just about your speed. I'm sure Microsoft won't be missing your money. There are always people who can't get MS Office or Vista to work. they just don't have the brains for that.



There you go again, posting about Ubuntu and Open Office. How long have you had this hateful obsession?

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