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Wow, MS is hellbent on dissuading everyone from buying their next buggy, bloated, swiss cheese POS."
Let me guess your a Apple boy no?.Figures!
- by shycelticwitch June 18, 2009 11:49 AM PDT
- Downgrade? isn't that something truckers are supposed to watch for on mountain highways? Who in their right mind would want to go BACKWARDS in technology? That makes the following statement a fact, and not just an analogy...
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- by ncalishome June 18, 2009 3:09 PM PDT
- Could you explain how what you said makes that a fact, or how it is a fact at all? Break it down please.
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Showing 2 of 2 pages (67 Comments)"Windows is.... A 32-bit extension to a 16-bit graphical interface, sitting on an 8-bit operating system, originally written for a 4-bit processor by a 2-bit company without ONE BIT of common sense."