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Drop Vista altogether on 20th May

50 points posted to Operating Systems by steveoc 04/20/07

http://www.mikealix.com/nj990524.htm< May - 1999

An ocean liner carrying over 1000 passengers, ominously named 'Vista', sunk to the bottom of the ocean on 20th May 1999 off the coast of Penang in Malaysia.

Dell should honour the date of this tragic event by dropping that other 'titanic' disaster - Microsoft Vista - on 20th May 2007.

premcv
04/20/07		 Wow! That's going to be a tough ask. But could be done!
bennish
04/22/07		 Do you, like, have a life, or what? 'Cause I'm sure we could get some of the guys on here together and maybe find you one? We'd be happy to...
jervis961
04/23/07		 It was actually called the Sun Vista and was built in the sixties. Does this mean we should drop all Sun products on 20th May also?
Compairing a 40+ year old boat to a brand new program doesn't make much sense. Maybe if you want to do that we should drop Vista in 40 years on 20th May so we get rid of it befor it sinks?!?
steveoc
05/01/07		 Maybe it was an elaborate stunt to ensure that SUN thinks twice about offering Vista on their hardware ?

I dont know for sure .... but it would make an awesome modelling subject for those rainy weekends anyway. Carve up a few crew figures in 1/350 scale to look like Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer rushing to the lifeboats first whilst the paying customers are locked down below decks to 'avoid panic'.

Top marks to jervis for having read TFA :)
jervis961
05/01/07		 I thought it was interesting, I'm weird like that sometimes.
 
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