Sure am.

So, "will" i... but to me any new OS has to be matched with another PC.

Recycle syndrome strikes again.

sweet.  I signed up for Houston.  Although I will still keep my $50 pre-order...I was needing a 2nd copy anyway

That second copy is for me, right?

Man, I really wish I had taken advantage of the $50 pre-order when I had the chance...

Man, I really wish that $50 pre-order was available here in Oz to take advantage of.

Sheesh, just because we're downunder, don't mean we're all sheep shagging bogans who don't appreciate modern technolergy.

Is that inappropriate? I can't tell

It might be a teensy weensy bit politically incorrect... I guess .

  Contagious as it is, i doubt your exclusive boomerangs spin in circles too fast either for someone to catch mid-flight if lucky enough.

So let me get this straight.

Bear with me everyone.

Starkers: you do not trust Google becuse of your own reasons yet are willing to buy into a company that data mines more than Google and has shoddy business practices?

No logic like I said...

(I now return you to your thread.)

photoshop yr own personal IT business card, and storm in there in yr army boots, black jeans and sunnies and make out like you own the world while your guzzeling a cola......that will work....promise...  having a babe on each arm helps too...*smirks*

@ kona.

There is a difference!  Microsoft HAS a product to sell that I'd find most useful... Windows 7.  However, Google has NO products or services of interest to me, for sale or otherwise... simple as that.

Enuff said!

Still no logic to your hate of google. no logic at all. Oh well.

Orright!  Microsoft doesn't bombard me with unsolicited/unwelcomed ads... Google does/would if I didn't block them.  I hate my web page real estate being taken up by ads... or where they would be, had I not blocked them.

Not only that, I don't get discount on client products and sevices after years of resentfully having to tolerate pesrsitent and annoying Google ads.

I mean, they know everything I say here, least they could do is send me discount coupons.

Now is enuff said???

I have one thing to add: Google does NOT bombard me with ads. Even with adblock off. Sounds like you need to look into Google again. Things have changed.

I'll post in another thread if i have more to say.

Nah, my life functions perfectly well without Google... or put another way... Google has nothing I want or need.

I find that a contradiction in terms!  Google is an ad company!  Its primary source of income comes from ads, so why would things have changed?  Google would not cut off its nose (income/revenue) to spite its face (bank balance).

Anyhow *back on topic*, I hope the launch of Windows 7 is the success MS hopes it will be... it simply is the best OS they've ever produced and blows Vista (everything else before it) out of the water.