More Horror Stories from XP Land to make 98 Users Feel Good

[smith]

Link: "Ed Foster's Gripelog || The suspicious death of XP
support"

http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2008/7/15/0310/62727

Win 98 gets better every year.

 

[Lil' Dave]

"smith" <smith@smith.com> wrote in message
news:eCrgLww5IHA.2348@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Link: "Ed Foster's Gripelog || The suspicious death of XP
> support"
>
> http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2008/7/15/0310/62727
>
> Win 98 gets better every year.

Not the first time MS updates and ZA collided with a non-connectivity for
ZA.

Killing device mangler hardware listing is new to me.
Have seen all the rest of it in the xpgeneral group.
--
Dave

Bailout: Friend, relative, business acquaintance
paying a sum to get the accused
out of jail until court is ready to proceed.

Bailout: U.S. taxpayers paying a sum of
money for some critical business failure
that was fleecing the taxpayer to begin
with.
Somehow, the word "bailout" seems
very different.

 

[Bill in Co.]

smith wrote:
> Link: "Ed Foster's Gripelog || The suspicious death of XP
> support"
>
> http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2008/7/15/0310/62727
>
> Win 98 gets better every year.

No problem over here. (Of course, I've been around the block a few times
on these so-called "updates", so I don't install them, and my system still
runs like a champ, as a consequence).

SP3 (just like some of the other so-called "updates"), has some problems, at
least for quite a few people. But as to why anyone with half a brain would
even install it in the first place, (along with most of the other so-called
"updates") ... well, let's just leave it there.

 

[Franc Zabkar]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:20:28 -0700, smith <smith@smith.com> put finger
to keyboard and composed:

>Link: "Ed Foster's Gripelog || The suspicious death of XP
>support"
>
>http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2008/7/15/0310/62727
>
>Win 98 gets better every year.

Spare a thought for Vista users ...

Microsoft is providing a 53MB download for Vista users which adds 5
words to its English and German dictionaries. Yep, that's *all* it
does.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955020

=====================================================================
The words "Friendster," "Klum," "Nazr," "Obama," and "Racicot" are not
recognized when you check the spelling in Windows Vista and in Windows
Server 2008.
=====================================================================

I wonder if the spell checker suggests "Osama" as a correction ...

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

 

[glee]

"Franc Zabkar" <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> wrote in message
news:qfps74det9uovjpokip842n6decrn1ivik@4ax.com...
> snip
> Spare a thought for Vista users ...
>
> Microsoft is providing a 53MB download for Vista users which adds 5
> words to its English and German dictionaries. Yep, that's *all* it
> does.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955020
>
> =====================================================================
> The words "Friendster," "Klum," "Nazr," "Obama," and "Racicot" are not
> recognized when you check the spelling in Windows Vista and in Windows
> Server 2008.
> =====================================================================
>
> I wonder if the spell checker suggests "Osama" as a correction ...

Only on Vista computers in use at 'New Yorker' magazine.....
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Windows, A+
http://dts-l.net/
http://dts-l.net/goodpost.htm

 

[Dan]

LOL, I am using Vista Home Premium 32 bit (Service Pack 1) with a Toshiba
laptop Glen and it is okay. It certainly is great with security but still
needs work with compatibility. I tried to hook up my Ipod Mini which is a
2nd generation one with 6 gigabytes and Vista choked without any error
message and Itunes within Vista would not play my songs. Anyway, I made an
appointment with Apple for the next day and guess what Vista played the songs
without a hitch and it sure made me feel stupid that it worked the next day
when it had not worked the day before. Have you ever run into scenarios like
this?

"glee" wrote:

> "Franc Zabkar" <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> wrote in message
> news:qfps74det9uovjpokip842n6decrn1ivik@4ax.com...
> > snip
> > Spare a thought for Vista users ...
> >
> > Microsoft is providing a 53MB download for Vista users which adds 5
> > words to its English and German dictionaries. Yep, that's *all* it
> > does.
> >
> > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955020
> >
> > =====================================================================
> > The words "Friendster," "Klum," "Nazr," "Obama," and "Racicot" are not
> > recognized when you check the spelling in Windows Vista and in Windows
> > Server 2008.
> > =====================================================================
> >
> > I wonder if the spell checker suggests "Osama" as a correction ...
>
> Only on Vista computers in use at 'New Yorker' magazine.....
> --
> Glen Ventura, MS MVP Windows, A+
> http://dts-l.net/
> http://dts-l.net/goodpost.htm
>
>