A subtle (by Loon standards) way of moving the goalposts. Every new version of Windows is attacked as follows:
(1) I hate the new interface.[1] (Any old reason will do. Note that you don’t actually need to have used the new interface — or even the old interface.)
This has never yet worked. Beta versions of the new interface take less than a month to out-sell the entire history of Linux distros. Next:
(2) It’s way too much for the hardware and it sucks and nobody likes it and what happened to all those features they promised but couldn’t deliver?[2] Nobody will use it.
This doesn’t really work, either, because it turns out that people do use it. They even buy it … as an upgrade. Finally:
(3) It’s just a service pack.[3]
Yes, and a human being is just a sperm and an egg and a bit of good luck thrown in along the way.
[1] Windows 8. Granted, I’m not keen on the thing, as yet.
[2] Vista.
[3] Everything from Windows 95 on.[a]
[3a] Totally ignoring things like NT, of course.
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It’s just a massive case of “sour grapes” — “I don’t care about your awesome new OS it’s just a [insert derogatory statement]”.
They’re green with envy while they type.
“[3] Everything from Windows 95 on.[a]”
I just cleaned up some cupboard with old stuff, and found W98, NT4, 2000 and XP upgrade CDs. Proof for it being all a service pack only, right?
The fact that the service pack in question is embedded in an “upgrade” CD which you were silly enough to purchase — Kurkos can give you a few hints on the right way to go about this — is no proof that it wasn’t a service pack in the first place.
Elementary Loon, my dear Watson.
Angry freetard:
“Yes it is, in fact, you could just as well upgrade MS-DOS to W8, it’s the same bloody thing after all.”
Where by “the same” the freetards mean to say “made by the same company” which they hate.
@RC:
Thus the OhSh!tItWorks™.
Hmm. I can’t even post my own trademarks without infringing Nanny’s objection to piano legs without petticoats.
@RC:
Now apply the concept of service packs to the corporate world.
Microsoft, 2011, is apparently a Service Pack to Microsoft, 1998.
Is that so? From current experience, I think I’d revert that service pack.
Does it, just when exactly did Windows start to work all of the sudden… oh right, when they first made it.
Kinda inconvenient if you’re trying to bash MS.
More proof of MS ebilness!!
“From current experience, I think I’d revert that service pack.”
Everyone hates on the bureaucracy; “Join the navy!” they said, “See the world!” they said — it’s full of bureaucrats!
I guess I agree.
More like ItsJustAPieceOfCrap™
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