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        <title><![CDATA[win8]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[the stuff you compile for ARM won't run on the intel/AMD machines and vice versa. So there will not be backward compatibility (or any compatibility for that matter) for running non WinRT applications on ARM. There will be ARM versions of Office - details on that we will find out tomorrow.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:58:27 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thanks for a well written response, Let me expand it!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think the thing that bugs me most is all the rules, regulations, hidden traps, and lack of support. A close second is pricing and how MS actually affects the costs of hardware and software from the marketplace. Do you remember when loading drivers were a big problem? How great functioning boards were obsoleted by their software changes?Then we get into our time with trying to solve customer problems over their changes. We do work for them at many times for no be befit. I have had the experience of customers blaming our company for MS problems that could not be resolved either by compatibility or other quirks in a system. How long should they support their product? MS gets a pass in the name of  &quot;New and Improved&quot; and we are forced to make do.Tired of needless problems!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[J.E.Trees]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:18:44 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Search function is poorer in win 7]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Perhaps I have missed something, however, the search in XP would find search terms within documents and seemed to only report what was asked for.  Win. 7 search function, for me, cannot locate imbedded material and also reports files that seem to have absolutely nothing to do with the searched term(s).  Plus if the chosen item is not what you were seeking the whole thing has to be started since there does not seem to be a way to return to the first set of choices.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:13:53 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[anti-Vaccination]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[So what's your point?  What does this have to do with microsoft and its offerings?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:43:21 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Steve Balmer]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[While just a lowly non-&quot;IT professional&quot;, who does enjoy the information and discussions, I seem to agree with Alpha_Dog.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:21:10 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[cheated by microsoft.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[here is an example of how microsoft treats its customers, a couple of years ago microsoft convinced me to move up to vista sp2, my experience with vista is quite positive because i think my hardware is suitable, now i find out that support for my version of vista ( home premium ) will not be supported after april this year BUT xp will be supportd until 2014, i was better of staying with xp (support wise ) and moving up to windows 7 will only give me support to 2015 only 12 months more than xp. i feel cheated and there is no way microsoft will refund my cost of moving to vista, which in the end i was better of staying with xp.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[danerd]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:39:17 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[best thing about Microsoft]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[One of the best thing i know about Micrsoft ...launching of any MS product creates lot of jobs/business in the market.... and that is the one required to rollout the money in marketAbhishek Joshitechnotra.com]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:31:53 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Microsoft and its reputation or what's left of it !]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Personally I could not care less about the failure of Vista or the market explosion of Ipads or anything else I.... I care even less about the debate that just goes on and on about Linux vs Apple vs Microsoft.I do not need someone else to tell me I am right or wrong by virtue of their interpretation of what they like and think I should have just because they say so. It's just a form of modern day bullying tactics to try and force a 3rd party view onto another person or business. That's like an electronic version of good old fashion slavery. The FACT is 60% of the world still clings to XP. You might not like it but there it is. There is a good reason for this. XP does what most people want and need. It does it without any new cost or new learning, it's familiar and cosy and the majority of people who still choose to use it are happy with it - because for them it works and is the right fit. Also and this is important - they have yet to repay the investment they laid out for XP so it's a hard sell to convince XP users to keep investing in Microsoft when they have yet to receive a sufficient payback on the original XP investment- a point conveniently overlooked by modern day commentators.Even new PC's are having the pre-installed version of W7 erased and reloaded with older XP licences and that fact again is being ignored because its not what any of you wish to recognise or accept.All your other commentators ought to respect many people just do not see the need to rush off and buy W7 or W8. When you add the fact that Microsoft put a massive disincentive into the choice argument by NOT providing a direct upgrade to W7 from XP is it any wonder resistence remains. Personally I am surprised the Microsoft brains trust keep failing to see the market opportunity in keeping XP alive and further improving it. Many personal owners and small business would love to see that happen and would pay for it . So I am surprised Microsoft shareholders continue to turn a blind eye to making their Execs accountable for lost opportunities and in part continuing the process that is dragging Microsoft down even more. We owe Microsoft some debt of gratitude but I have to say since Bill Gates departed nothing coming from Microsoft is really hitting the mark in a way that is a compelling - must have product. I agree with the constant name change view and it does not help but in essence if people cannot understand what the product does - cannot see it in simpler terms , cannot understand how to use it or derive benefits from it then it becomes a very pointless exercise. At present Microsoft has been getting a loud and clear message from XP Users - start looking after us or lose more market share.And if the past is any indicator they will continue abandoning XP users - gifting Apple a potential 60% market share and I am seeing that quantum shift happening right now.Ken McAvoyIT DirectorMelbourneAustralia]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:40:37 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sure it works...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[...As long as he can get a C:/ prompt!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[_Papa_]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:09:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Where's the stirring music? I could almost hear it....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;....and next time you're walking down the street and you see a noble, misunderstood Microsoft employee----reach out and buy him or her a venti latte, won't you?&quot;]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[hippiekarl]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:07:59 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[On this planet (since you asked)]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-346495-3506787]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[...I'd have to guess Ted Turner, Sumner Redstone, and Rupert Murdoch. Because through their holdings and affiliates, they kind of do, after all.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:55:53 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[CEOs can plan to clean up in the short term and cash out]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-346495-3506800]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[...or plan for the long haul. Most ways to clean up in the short term (early part of a business's 'life cycle') will have repercussions on its reputation in the long run....]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[hippiekarl]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:41:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Well, I 'plus 1ed' you back to zero, jk.......]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm used to (and grudgingly acceptant of) Microsoft releasing iffy products and doing everything from gross fixes to little tweaks AFTER the products are in the marketplace....because they seem to usually get it usable around 'Service Pack 2' critical update. Big Pharma? They aren't showing up post-vaccination to remove (or even explain the presence of) mercury, monkey genes, et al in their periodic and always-rushed-to-market vaccines.Their population-wide, hysteria-induced campaigns always seem to disappear between one day and the next, a few months later (when the 'pandemic' of the moment turns out to cause less mortality than the generic colds/flus also going around at the time). Most vacccine-recipients I've known suffered 'flu-like symptoms' in the first days after their innoculation. I suppose your wife's occupation has her so far up the medical establishment's thought-collective that she couldn't imagine there being any profiteering and/or eugenics agendas attached to the annual death-flu scares. Good for your kids, BTW.....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:59:36 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[rfolden: Why in heck should a charity ...]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-346495-3506361]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[...need to know how to debug *any kind* of software? I have used Linux for at least ten years,  probably give more to charity than you do (Why should I base my gift on what you seem to think I owe Microsoft?), and since I'm sixty-five and my Momma has been dead for years, and I could care less who can debug a C program. I run Linux because I like it. Nobody is going hungry because I do.Alpha_Dog, please note:&quot;Since 1983, Microsoft and its employees have given more than $2.5 billion in cash, services and software to nonprofits around the world through localized, company-sponsored giving and volunteer campaigns&quot;.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[_Papa_]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:08:06 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[If you buy a notebook that says &amp;quot;Windows 7&amp;quot; on it,]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-346495-3506344]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Be sure it can be upgraded for *free* from &quot;Windows 7 Starter Edition&quot; which won't do squat to &quot;Windows Home Premium&quot; which does a little more. Don't charge $200 bucks for a *download* code. If I need to reload, I have to be online.Good thing I'm not relying on a dial-up line.Furthermore, quit assuming that a home computer will used more for entertainment than anything else. I didn't pay this money for an OS that specializes in playing music and watching movies!!!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[_Papa_]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:20:38 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Let's just face it]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[you and rfolden are just shills.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[AnsuGisalas]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:20:10 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The customer is always just money to Execs]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It's the techs, Sales/marketing, Engineering/Technical and customer support who are concerned with the end user. The &quot;Deciders&quot; look only at the stock performance and give grudging acknowledgment to reports from middle management, who get reports from lower management, who get *facts* from the floor who get input from the customers which gets buried on the trip upstairs.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:55:14 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A truely wonderful company]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&gt;&quot;People get frustrated with their products when things do not go right,...&quot;Things would go swimmingly if MS would allow them to, but they assume they know better than me how I should use my computer. Each release of a new OS allows less and less personal autonomy. It's the built-in limitations, the assumption that I have no authority to control my own network, or that I must check with someone else to load my preferred software, of that I don't have the right to view my own files, et c. &amp; et c. Frustrated? angry?, well yeah!&gt;&quot;I think this anger toward MS says a lot more about us&quot;Tell me, just what is it saying about &quot;us&quot;? What do you hear it saying? That we are, well, somewhat biased against MS? I can't speak for &quot;us&quot;, I can only speak for myself. Microsoft sell a fine product with many good traits. The graphics are outstanding. Uh, lets see. Oh, yeah, lots of commercially available software. Mmm, did I say good graphics? Oh, I said that.&gt;&quot;next time you actually deal with a MS employee, try to be a little objective and give them a fair shake.&quot;Oh, I'm objective. The object of my call is to find out what I can do about so-and-so. &quot;Oh, you say my Windows is pirated?&quot; &quot;You want me to send you a copy of my sales receipt?&quot; &quot;Is Office Max an authorized MS dealer?&quot; &quot;What do you mean, 'Your computer is not the one that copy is registered to?&quot; &quot;No, I can't read the COA on the bottom of my laptop.&quot; &quot;Yes, the computer is out of warranty. I thought you supported your software through 2012.&quot; &quot;yes, please do have your supervisor call me ASAP.&quot; &quot;Monday?&quot; &quot;Sure, I'll run on Linux until he calls. Thank you.&quot;&gt;&quot;They are on the right track and heading in the right direction,...&quot;I'm glad to know that, I'll send them a post card to congratulate them.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[_Papa_]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:27:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[Please tell them to send me a job application. I'd like to found a religion to give them the praise such incredibly powerful people deserve. I have experience here, I used to be a Mormon!This'll get marked down, want it?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[_Papa_]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:25:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[Linux doesn't have to *win* in order to stay alive. Enough people like it well enough to use it. Now if Windows was as cheap as most Linux distros, they would probably start losing their grip on the market, because they couldn't advertise and they couldn't made the sweetheart deals with the OEMs. People who don't care about having control over their own systems will probably stay with Windows because it is flashier. People who want control over their own computers will probably opt for a Linux distro that allows it. People will also opt  to save money on applications as well, and can browse and download hundreds absolutely *free* of charge. Most allow you to alter them any way you want to customize them to your special needs. MS will do anything they can get away with to discourage you from doing this up to allowing their system to crash and blaming your software, or even have their OS remove or destroy it. So if your trust leaving the fox to guard your henhouse, and like buying apps the fox approves at inflated prices, stay with Windows and MS products.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:48:00 -0700</pubDate>
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