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tommyrot - Sep 30, 2007 8:33:20 am PDT #2896 of 25497
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Another editorial about the relative failure of Vista in the marketplace: [link]

At the same time, Enderle, an analyst who counts Microsoft as a customer, said, "Vista adoption is well below where I thought it would be by now...Corporations aren't even close to being ready for Vista, and many of us have been expecting this move. The biggest issue is that most don't seem to see the value in the product. Right now the majority of the comments I'm getting would indicate the people [who] don't want Vista right now are in the majority."

Enderle, mind you, is about as pro-Microsoft an analyst there is in the business today. If he's saying that people don't want Vista, and the OEMs, which at the end of the day are all about selling units, don't want to sell it, the only conclusion you can come to is that Vista is failing to win the market.


Tom Scola - Sep 30, 2007 8:41:30 am PDT #2897 of 25497
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Just because Enderle is pro-Microsoft doesn't mean he's more right about them than anything else. He's full of shit.

At my company, I just had my Win2K PC replaced with one running XP a couple of weeks ago.


DXMachina - Sep 30, 2007 10:29:02 am PDT #2898 of 25497
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Just because Enderle is pro-Microsoft doesn't mean he's more right about them than anything else. He's full of shit.

I think you may have misread what he said. I know I did first time through, because that last sentence in the first paragraph is very badly worded. He's saying the majority of business customers DON'T want Vista.


Allyson - Oct 01, 2007 8:03:27 am PDT #2899 of 25497
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I'm not sure where to look, would someone point me in the direction of free excel templates? I really want to have a monthly expenses planner where I can plug in expenses, paychecks, and see what's leftover, with a sheet for each month.

I've googled, become confused, and so thought it more likely that someone here would know just where to go.


le nubian - Oct 01, 2007 8:34:40 am PDT #2900 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

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I found the above link, but it is Office 2007.


Allyson - Oct 01, 2007 8:36:50 am PDT #2901 of 25497
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

This looks perfect, LeN! Thanks.


le nubian - Oct 01, 2007 8:45:43 am PDT #2902 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I have used Excel for years, so if you need help, let me know. I use it to manage my finances currently (though I use quicken as well...quicken is better day to day, while excel gives me a better idea of long-range budgets and planning).


Zenkitty - Oct 01, 2007 3:33:27 pm PDT #2903 of 25497
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Once again I turn to the hivemind. I have iTunes on my home PC. It's synced to my iPod. i just downloaded iTunes onto my laptop and signed in, so it knows it's me. A co-worker told me I should now be able to plug in my iPod and it would put all my stuff on the laptop. But it won't. It tells me the iPod can only be synced with one library and it won't pull anything off of it. Am I doing something wrong, or is my co-worker simply mistaken?


le nubian - Oct 01, 2007 3:44:59 pm PDT #2904 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

coworker is mistaken. ipods (for the most part) work only one way on itunes.


Ginger - Oct 02, 2007 7:15:53 am PDT #2905 of 25497
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Does anyone use an online fax service to receive faxes? I need my fax machine something like 10 times a year these days, so it doesn't seem worth the space it takes up.

By the way, one use of the fax is a client who faxes me web pages she's printed out. **headdeskheaddesk**