The prices are indeed steep and more than I have hoped for yes, if you look at the full retail version... come on. who of you people here are going to be buying anything other than the upgrade version..? prices are a product of supply and demand - ibm, another high-flying company forgot tha
...here in switzerland the discount warehouses they have already started "dumping" their xp stockpiles onto the market with heavily reduced prices... up to now i couldn't justify to myself the price difference for xp-profesional so i settled for xp home... so maybe i might just update to xp prof rather than vista
hallo "citizen life is a game" ..! ...by all microsoft upgrade products, to date, it's always been the same procedure... at some point during the installation (in your case vista), even a clean installation, you will be asked to insert the original cd of the software (xp) you're updating to verify your right to the (vista) upgrade product... ...so don't be scared to use the harddisk format option when installing vista 'cos a clea
"...It looks like Microsoft has accidentally leaked some details of the price of its next-generation operating system. At least for customers who live in the Great Frozen North..." BTW, prices in canadian dollars... http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=124
thanks for the help corky_q i followed your advice and haven't had any more trouble with ie7-beta3 and objeckdock..! i've been using ie7 everyday since beta3 came out a few weeks back... i haven't had any problems with it other than the little hickup with objectdock... excuse my delay in replying - i just wanted to be sure that the problem was fixed first... thanks again..! <br/
has anyone had any problems with od+ after installing ie7 (latest beta)..? after a while of using ie7 od+ just doesn't react anymore, i'm still trying to nail down when and why the problem occurs... gratefull for any input i used firefox for a while, just couldn't get into it... ie7 seems to me so much smoother, more intuitive, so i'd hate to rollback to ie6, on the otherhand od+ is the best thing t
i've had the same problem, exactly the same symptoms, hotmail doesn't work either plus a number of other websites - still don't know what causes the problem... anyway, the following helped: click on the start menu and select run, enter the following command regsvr32 jscript.dll and hit enter, then start the run command again and type in regsvr32 vbscript.dll and hit enter... <img src="http://im
i quote cnet news... "While the fine is steep, Microsoft would have no trouble paying it. For the first three months of 2006, the company pocketed profits of nearly $3 billion on sales of $11 billion, meaning the proposed fine amounts to about 10 days' worth of profits." software is big buisness, very big buisness..! a number of buisnesses worldwide, not just european also american, have been complaining about microsof
reading a little further on in theis thread... kevin, i think you have made a very objective statement... and yet the original theme of this thread was about the "bloat" of windows... and vista is bloated, mega..! or should i say giga and what do i get for my money that xp and stardock can't provide..? "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" - quote from "the who"... <br/
...it wasn't all that long ago that someone fairly high up in the microsoft circles said "who could ever need more than 640Kb RAM..." please notice, kilobytes, not megabytes..! who was that again..? oh yeah, bill gates..! sure move with the times, and a graphic orientated does need RAM, but now we're talking about 1 giga just to get vista up and running... which for me equates to a 2 giga layout... not to mention the graphic card demands... and what exactly do i get
windows xp has a function to do this... - open the the start menu - click on the programs button, navigate your mouse-cursor to the program (not a program group) you want to always appear in your start menu when you open it - right-click to the left of the desired program name - a popup menu will appear, select "add (or pin) to start menu" (don't know the exact menu item name as i'm running a german language version of xp) - the selected program will now appear i
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