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Old 01-19-2004, 06:53 PM   #1
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Talking Funny Win XP Boot Screen

http://members.lycos.co.uk/merlin371/21962.jpg

 
Old 01-19-2004, 06:54 PM   #2
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Odd you should choose XP, because I've never had any problems with it. 98, 95, yeah, but not XP...
 
Old 01-19-2004, 06:55 PM   #3
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Pretty good, but they could do better if they added the parts about MS sending info back to themselves, their intention to make you pay monthly fees to use your own computer, their software not being compatible with anything developed outside of MS's "campus".
 
Old 01-19-2004, 06:58 PM   #4
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MS sending info back to themselves, their intention to make you pay monthly fees to use your own computer
They Wnat to do what now????
 
Old 01-19-2004, 07:06 PM   #5
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Now? They've been doing that for a while. Other countries aren't real happy about some of the data sent to MS under the pretext of "user satisfaction", although I must confess that I've only read the stories, not investigated them myself. (This is a bit hard, as I haven't had Windows on a personal machine of mine since mid-1999.) I believe there have been a few legal situations with this as well, but I'm too lazy to google it for now. Feel free to prove me wrong.
 
Old 01-19-2004, 07:06 PM   #6
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I don't see how there could be any "legal" situation, since using Windows is a choice on the part of the individual user.
 
Old 01-19-2004, 07:11 PM   #7
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Okay, funny picture, but lets steer this topic back on course as we don't yet need another M$ bashing thread, etc. We have enough of those already.

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Old 01-19-2004, 07:57 PM   #8
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Wow, that' a great startup screen! Awesome!
 
Old 02-06-2004, 09:18 PM   #9
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Sorry, I didn't realize what a Moderator was until after I posted the reply.
Regards,
Noah
 
Old 02-06-2004, 11:06 PM   #10
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funny...i used to use that one
 
Old 02-06-2004, 11:49 PM   #11
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Okay, funny picture, but lets steer this topic back on course as we don't yet need another M$ bashing thread, etc. We have enough of those already.

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Yes, true enough, trickykid, but I must say without hesitation that overstatement of the reprehensible performance of doz = a reprehensible performance of a closed source OS at such ^^$$ would open your own thoughts to its absurd worthless uselessness to a forked over public that has been A** rap** by this crap WAY too long 'nuff said, re: my other posts Oh, It's True, It's True! /End/rant/end/bin/laden/other-idiots/var/log/core-dump!
 
Old 02-07-2004, 03:06 AM   #12
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ROFL
 
Old 02-09-2004, 06:37 PM   #13
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My bro-in-law has this as his XP boot screen:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/merediac/kuvat/PiratedEdition.jpg
 
Old 02-09-2004, 08:48 PM   #14
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lol
i had that one also

go to themexp.org and check them out
search for linux
they got some cool ones
Last edited by SykoMachine; 02-09-2004 at 08:50 PM.
 
Old 02-11-2004, 11:50 AM   #15
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not totally related to the screen posted in the first post, but i found this on another forum, and advertisement for ms frontpage, any body see whats wrong with it?
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2026&...p;1076027963680
 
  


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