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from the can't-resist-that-minty-freshness dept.
prospectacle writes:
How to best replace Windows XP has become interesting to a much wider group of people, due to the end of official support for the product. (a previous story mentioned an Indian state government that urged its departments to use India's home-grown linux distro "BOSS Linux").
Some people may be using XP because it came with their computer and they never gave it a second thought, but there are probably plenty of others who don't want to spend the money, don't like the look of Windows 8, have older hardware, or are just used to the XP interface.
To these people, ZDNet humbly offers Linux Mint as a suggestion to replace XP.
They provide fairly compelling arguments to their target audience like:
- You can make it look almost exactly like XP
- It's free
- You can boot the live CD to try before you "buy".
- Decent, free alternatives exist for email, office, book-keeping and web-browsing.
- Virtually no need for any anti-virus for home users.
- Installation is quite easy these days.
- Works on fairly modest hardwar
Ending free support for a 12 year old product seems like a sensible policy for a for-profit entity like microsoft. In the past they've been able to count on people upgrading from old microsoft products to new microsoft products, and so any measure that would encourage (or pressure) people to upgrade would increase their sales.
Seems like a winning formula.
(Score: 1) by gishzida on Tuesday April 01 2014, @03:25AM
Oy Gevalt! The moderator mash of redundancy!
Is there irony or sarcasm here?
I know.
I know!
-I- am redundant
which is why I can spend
as much time here annoying you...
but you? Don't you know how to READ? ---
I raised the sarcasm flag... Did you flunk Dr. Suess?
But I've taken it down now, you Oh so nearly famous Moderator Goose,
For it is obvious you'd not know a Zillion Ampere touch of Zeus,
Nor the sweet taste of sarcasm and its use.
No you apparently don't, won't, can't shan't...
It is beyond you!
YOU!
You Sur-moderator!
Hear you this: Your commentary is obviously pungent,
Your bias and opinion are unfailingly redundant!
I find a kind of glee in your alleged ascendency
with the powers of micro-momentary famously feigned pendantry.
"Ha! I say! Ha! THAT! IS That!"
I hear you say in your bestest pendantry endantry.
"Ha! I say! Ha! THAT! IS That!"
So No is no... you apparently don't, won't, can't shan't...
The truth of everything is beyond you!
You Sur... Your editorial commentary opinion FAILS
Are you by chance related to the editors of Jimmy Wales?
This Soylant place has the blessing of Ada, the Goddess of Data
But thee? Return! Get thee down into the Darkness of Beta!!!
But before you go
so it won't be said I did not try:
let me educate you
you ignoble Child of Uranus--
It as I had predicted in a previous post.
Turkey has turned unwanted traffic to toast... [go look you'll see} [dev.soylentnews.org]
And rather than say I told you so
I chose to devalue a comment without value
to make fun of its irrelevant cheesiness of the comment above mine
(a comment about Little Caesar's Cheese which of itself might be taken as editorial commentary of the editor's!)
but you Sur-Moderator
Simple, noble, and the fighter for higher something something something
you have missed your teachable moment
Fox News has nothing on you
your editorial truth is better
(especially when yours is kept in fetter)
You're gracious, Geisel-able and great
at least in your own mind
Ah so sad, sad Sur-kind
You are not but a Pseudo-anapest
who has failed to get
the cream of the jest.