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Cool! I might be able to completely bypass upgrading to Microsoft Vista after all!

Vista-free outlook for Microsoft
By Martin J Young

HUA HIN, Thailand - Microsoft has been touting its latest version of Windows this week and moved closer to dropping the much-derided Vista operating system by the wayside. Windows 7, expected in early 2010, will be built on Vista but, according to chief executive Steve Ballmer, it will be a lot better.Microsoft claims to have solved all of these glitches and is looking forward to Windows 7, while slowly pushing Vista under the rug.

Windows 7 is likely to be the operating system that Vista should have been
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I managed to buy my first PC right when Win95 came out and upgraded direct to XP from there when could no longer update internet security software re WIN95. Now I may be able to go direct from XP to WIN7 when they roll it out. Cool! :cool:
 
alevin said:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JK01Dj02.html

I might be able to completely bypass upgrading to Microsoft Vista after all!

Cool! :cool:
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For Microsoft, it's either 'get rid of Vista' or 'continue to allow Vista to be the best reason to give Apple a harder look' from a marketing standpoint. Vista should come packaged with blood pressure medication! :laugh:

I wonder if those of us stuck with the reviled operating system will have to pay to upgrade to something that works?! :suspicious: :rolleyes:

Lady
 
XL-entLady said:
For Microsoft, it's either 'get rid of Vista' or 'continue to allow Vista to be the best reason to give Apple a harder look' from a marketing standpoint. Vista should come packaged with blood pressure medication! :laugh:

I wonder if those of us stuck with the reviled operating system will have to pay to upgrade to something that works?! :suspicious: :rolleyes:

Lady
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Likely as Microsoft doesn't give away much for free.

Wait until your agency decides to upgrade to Office 2007. Suddenly none of your macros or secured files will work. You will even have to ask permission to see the files that are not secured or have no macros. Oh, by the way the upgrade will send any shortcut it doesn't like to the trashcan.
 
from http://www.247wallst.com/2008/11/citigroup-c-fin.html

on MarketWAtch. com

Barclay's may be in trouble.



At last Citigroup (C) has decided to do something to save itself beyond having town hall meetings and firing tens of thousand of people.
Thursday, shares of the big bank fell to a low of $4.39. In the summer of 2007, that stock traded about $52.
Finally, Citi has determined that it may not have the people or the balance sheet to stay in business on its own.
According to The Wall Street Journal, "Executives at Citigroup Inc., faced with a plunging stock price, began weighing the possibility of auctioning off pieces of the financial giant or even selling the company outright, according to people familiar with the matter."
Citi's board may be looking at the difficulty that Barclays (BCS) is having raising $10 billion in new capital. Some large shareholders are against the pricing and dillution which would come from the deal, and the plan to issue shares may be voted down. If that happens, Barclays is in real trouble having lost access to a huge new pool of capital"
 
Paulson is too soft on his financial buddies. He offers huge help with insufficient public protection and payback. He needs to resign along with the whole Bush administration within 2 weeks. Obama could temporarily keep key Bush appointees and offer all Bush key players an additional early severance package of 1 extra month salary beyond inaguration date to resign in 2 weeks.

Dr. Faustus, sorry for not responding to your reply about a week ago regarding my NASA recycling comments. I was not suggesting that we or anybody else collect space garbage and return it to earth. Rather extend international cooperation beyond the ISS to broad agreements on standard sizes and building designs for all commercial satellites. When they stop working collect them in a space junkyard. Add a recycling/fabrication facility on to or separate from the ISS and reuse standard parts from the old satellites, etc to then build and launch new satellites, etc in space from the fab facility.
 
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JL05Dj01.html

Richard R forwarded an article from the Euromoney newsletter that reported that another bunch of scumbags were lying, this time about their pledged US Treasury assets as collateral for debts and bets, and when it came time to make good on their losses, they could not deliver the pledged collateral!

Thus, "fails to deliver among the 17 primary dealers in the US Treasury market have rocketed to more than $2 trillion over a period of weeks and still lie above $1.3 trillion. Broker/dealers have stopped delivering bonds."
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I've heard rumbles about people shorting Treasuries lately, this is the first concrete detailed story I've run across-implies naked shorting is happening. Is everyone hiding under the covers hoping this isn't really happening? Seems like this would be hitting the papers all OVer the world, not just secondhand in the AsiaTimes. Does anyone have a way to get hold of the Euromoney newsletter mentioned? FRIXXX? :blink:
 
This morning I found the Euromoney article I fell asleep trying to find last night. Here it is. The site won't let me copy any part of the article so you'll have to go to the site to read anything more than what I posted last night. Incidentally, reading the original article I realized it wasn't talking about shorting Treasuries after all-my mistake.

Article really talking about failed Treasury buying and selling activity. Brokers/dealers afraid to borrow or lend Treasuries for fear of what could happen on the back end.

http://www.euromoney.com/Article/20...S-treasury-market-reaches-breaking-point.html
 
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