================================================ Subject: Re: Safety First... Admission after the info From: "Creed - 7M3 - Live" To: Date: Wed 22 Aug 2001 01:36:52 -0400 ================================================ The all caps might have led me to that conclusion. The continuation towards comparing XP Office and the XP operating system. As two distinct and seperate entities. Leads me to belief that a seperation between the OS and applications is a great idea. Also the person that left, which had a Juno account. Unfortunatly, I do notice subtle and extreme factors related to comments. Be it high or low priority message status or continued assalts towards my intelligence or truthfulness. Later, Jim Keith P. Mears wrote: > Go back and re-read your own posts, Jimbo. YOU made the issue Office XP, > because you couldn't find any corroboration for your ASININE assertions > about WINDOWS XP. > > And if you need proof of that, feel free to ask either Debbi or myself, as > we keep EXTENSIVE archives, and would be more than willing to make you eat > your words. > > And BTW, how is it that a post exemplifying ME for my ability to freely > admit I made a mistake (in a thread in which you were not even involved) got > twisted into a vilification of your own INABILITY to do the same? Must be > nice to live in your own little world. > > And in closing, COMMA'S. Ever heard of them? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Creed - 7M3 - Live" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 11:10 PM > Subject: Safety First... Admission, after the info > > > >>It is great for Keith to admit. When he is wrong. However, I haven't >>found any information to indicate me being incorrect. >> >> >>Since the issue seems to be that I will not admit to being wrong. Here >>is another piece to the puzzle. >>----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Microsoft, however, is pushing its new subscription model Software >>Assurance (SA) program. The software giant expects more than 50 percent >>of its customers to sign up. Subscribing to SA costs 29 percent of the >>end-user price per year and gives subscribers the right to all upgrades >>of Office. >> >>To be eligible a customer needs to run the current version of the >>product. Only Office XP will be the current version on Oct. 1, so the >>customer first needs to upgrade. Once the cost of the four-year SA >>contract is added onto the cost of the software upgrade, users end up >>paying a premium of 66 percent, the NGN calculated. >> >>----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>I again know that the information regards XP office. But, the bits are >>seeming to indicate that the issues that I posted were pretty darn >> > credible. > >>I read a subscription as regarding to pay as you go. >> >>If predictions are that 50 percent of the customers will sign up. Isn't >>that like saying that the pay up, or off you go scenerio that I >>mentioned in my earlier postings? >> >>The best way to kill an issue is to not keep posting to the list that >>inspires responses. >> >>Basically, if you don't believe it. Fine!!! ... I'm tired of the >>credibility issues. Especially, since the issues regarding sheep were >>discussed. for those that follow the subscription scheme. Be aware of >>what some seem to like to do to the poor defenseless sheep. >> >>You can be a pioneer into other operating systems. Make your own, if you >>so choose. My choice is well known. >> >>Sorry if I took the comment as more than it was meant to be. The part >>between two ----- above are excerpts from this link. >> >> > http://windows2000.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://iwsun4.infow > orld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/05/25/010525hnfight.xml > > > To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: > http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp > > -- "Bureaucracy is the enemy of innovation." -- Mark Shepherd, former President and CEO of Texas Instruments To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp