Well I expect that Vista will rival the success of Windows ME. I know why the gave it the name Millennium. You would have to spend a 1000 years to get it to work. They have had enough complaints over Vista that I suspect they are working on the next greatest thing already.
--- On Thu, 7/10/08, Trevor Cunningham <tr_cunningham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Trevor Cunningham <tr_cunningham@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Windows Vista
> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thursday, July 10, 2008, 6:55 PM
> vista has been a colossal failure...i was reading that
> microsoft was either designing a new kernel, or thinking of
> extending the XP evolution, rather than continuing with
> vista...i could be wrong
>
> "somewhere between zero and one...everything else is
> exaggeration" - Anonymous
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Bob <w8imo@xxxxxxxx>
> To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals -
> Students <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 6:47:50 AM
> Subject: Re: Windows Vista
>
> Ahhhhh,
> sort of like the Old Timer down East that had the same axe
> that his
> father gave him. Four new handles and two new heads, but
> the "same
> axe......"
>
> Bob
>
> wpettit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I assure you, I am mortal, and foolish! The machine has
> had several different motherboards and processors, and
> before each OS upgrade, I cloned (Norton Ghost) the hard
> drive over to one with higher capacity. I did it just to
> see if I could.
>
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: mlent@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Jul 10, 2008 3:33 PM
> To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals -
> Students <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Windows Vista
>
> WOW... a machine that ran Win3.1 now runs XP??? You are not
> mortal, sir! :-) Bow, Bow, Bow...
>
> Man, I remember those horrible days of Win3.11- Windows for
> Workgroups, Which is actually an old indian phrase that
> means "doesn't run worth a hoot". And
> don't even THINK about running Photoshop!!!
>
> Who else here remembers Photoshop BEFORE it was an Adobe
> product? The first flatbed scanner I purchased came with
> "Thomas Knoll's Photoshop, v0.79", which was
> two floppy discs (And yes, I still have those disks).
> Primative by today's standards. Who remembers when you
> had to select with the marquee too to zoom-in, and then had
> to remember to zoom-out, otherwise your photo would have
> this Picasso look to it. :-). Ahhh... Thems' was
> th' days... hehehe.
>
> Mark Lent
>
>
>
>
> --
> /////
> ( O O )
> --------------------oOOO-----O----OOOo-----73 de
> w8imo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I plan to live forever. So far, so good......
