Re: Installing Legal Copy of XP Pro

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Wayne;
You may be asking in the wrong place if you are considering a replacement
OS.
Instead search for a forum supporting one or more of the alternatives such
as Linux.
The users there will be better able to explain the advantages of their OS as
well as possible solutions to your migration questions.
Have you looked into it already? Or are you simply assuming?

This newsgroup is for Windows answers and not Linux.

It sounds like you want "an Asian company" to come in and among other
things, take more jobs away from the US. In any case, people will then
whine about "an Asian company" selling their OS for about $100. Little
would change except where people whine.

It is all your choice and not Microsoft or anyone else's.
Use the products you want at the asking price.
You choose what OS to use on each of your computers.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
http://www.dts-l.org


"Wayne" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9nKkf.247$PX2.43307@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> You can tell Microsoft what you think is best just as you can tell any
>> other manufacturer. But they choose how they are going to sell their
>> product.
>> From there it is your choice whether to buy theirs or one of the other
>> alternatives.
>
>
> Can we get a little serious? Is there really any competition against
> Microsofts operating systems considering that a lot of us grew up on
> several microsoft products
> that today you can't work on one without the other?
>
> It reminds me of the hay days at the Xerox corporation. They dominated
> the market with their 99 percent share of all photocopiers on the market,
> simply because their was no competition and were selling them at
> rediculous prices ... because they could. Today Xerox is one tenth their
> size and struggling to stay alive.
>
> I pray that an Asian company comes out with a far superior operating sytem
> one day at half the cost.
>
> Please point me to a competitive operating system that I can still work
> with all my microsoft files, like publisher files, office files etc. I
> need to migrate all these files that I have worked on over the years. Are
> you telling me I can install something like Linux and have no problems, or
> am I right ..... MS has no competition and is doing what Xerox had done in
> their domination of the market?


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