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Banging On A Frying Pan

A random collection of whatever thoughts happen to be going through my mind at the time...



I hate Microsoft! I'm tired of Microsoft pimping Windows Vista. I don't want to upgrade to a memory-hungry, unstable monstrosity of an operating system; maybe once they've released a service pack or two, and fixed the most egregious problems, I'll consider it. But I don't think it's very nice of them to discriminate against XP owners when it comes to games. The Windows version of Geometry Wars requires Vista; since this is a simple little game based on the vector graphics style of 80's arcade games, why the hell couldn't they make it compatible with XP? (You might wonder: why haven't I just downloaded the Xbox Live version? Because I'm not on Xbox Live. I live in a house built in the 1930's, and expanded in haphazard fashion in the 1960's; and there's no way to connect my Xbox to the Internet without tripping myself daily with a grotesque tangle of wires. I haven't even bought that USB Wi-Fi doohickey for the Wii yet, because I'm not sure it would work with the bizarre layout of this room.)

Posted by: Nobue Ito Sat Mar 24, 2007 @ 01:29am

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Commented on: Sat Mar 24, 2007 @ 05:06am


	I'm on the same page, really. Although Microsoft will only support XP less and less until '09, so you kind of get screwed unless upgrading to that piece of crap.

Commented on: Wed May 02, 2007 @ 02:17pm


	Switch to FOS (Free Open Source). I only use XP when I have to, but I use a Linux distrobution for everything else. Completely free, with counterparts to Paint, Word, all the main Microsoft programs that are as good or better than the $100+ counterparts Microsoft pushes.

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