alt.comp.os.windows-xp

In article <0001HW.C369D6EE00026295F01846D8 DeleteThis @newsgroups.comcast.net>,
J.J. O'Shea <try.not.to DeleteThis @but.see.sig> wrote:

> Come on, now, XP is simply not _that_ bad. WinME is the second-worst OS-like
> thing to ever escape from the dungeons beneath Mickeysoft's HQ, Bob being the
> worst. Frankly, Bob was so bad that the only reason the lead manager on the
> Bob project wasn't bounced out of Mickeysoft was that she was very, very,
> VERY good friends with Billg. Even Zune is better than Bob... WinXP is
> nowhere near as bad. It's superior to Win98SE in several ways, and to WinNT4
> in others, and at least equal to W2K in a few. Of all the Mickeysoft OSes I'd
> prefer W2K, but there are things that it just won't do but that XP will. (And
> no, this is not an accident. You can see the same tactics being applied with
> Vista, but with markedly less success, because Vista really _is_ as bad
> WinME. Maybe worse.)

Bob was not an operating system. It was a response to the horrid
Packard Bell Navigator (or whatever they called it) and promoted by the
future Mrs. Gates.

The Zune remains a turd. The only ones I've seen are behind a locked
case at Wally World.