I’ve had my same Windows XP and Office 2003 installation for at least 3 years and I have to say that I cannot understand why I have had to install at least 25 different releases of Microsoft’s Genuine Advantage software. Every time I need to do an update, “We need to make sure you’re version of Windows hasn’t been stolen since the last month you did an update.” It makes me the kind of nuts that only leads to carbines and random notes. I just don’t understand how I’m going to ‘re-steal’ a version of Windows if I haven’t stolen it the first 25 times. And secondly, why in the hell would I steal it? You’re pretty damned optimistic there Microsoft if you think anyone would steal crap.
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Mike says:
Your own damn fault. You’re techy enough to know there are alternatives. And I’m NOT talking about OSX. Hardy Heron was just released, FFS!
25 April 2008, 7:06 amWyatt says:
Yeah, it’s my own damned fault because OneNote just doesn’t run the same in Ubuntu as it does in Windows. The tablet stuff for X has never really been ironed out so trying to use my tablet in Linux is possibly one of the more ungraceful things you can accomplish. Yes, I know I have the source code, no, I don’t care to hack around in someone’s ugly driver code, yes, I will piss and moan about it because it takes 15mins to do a Windows Update vs. the 2days to get the tablet functionality working in Linux.