[chat] Scratch 'n Win Windows XP

[Rick Welykochy <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Edwin Humphries wrote:

> Geeez - you had it good. When I used Win 95, I had to pay around $500
> for utilities to make the bugger work properly. And then I had to pay
> around 2 dys lost productivity every three months to reinstall
> weverything. And ...

Ah, now you're talking. The TCO for Win XP is undefined (could be heap$$$),
and the TCO of Win95 was way way above that for Linux, in spite of MS
FUD.

I s'pose it's time to scream B-E-E-R and take this to slug-chat.


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"If every copy sold of Windows 95 crashes an average of once per day, and Bill Gates
 Gates were charged $1 per crash, his fortune would last less than a year."