On 28 December 2012 15:15, Chris. Aubrey-Smith <cas194@???> wrote:
> Festive greetings to all!
>
> I spent a large part of the Midwinter Festival trying (under a three-line
> whip) to upgrade a PC from Windows 7 to Windows 8. Many, many hours and
> countless re-starts later, it works. Up to a point.
>
> Much of the installed software was deemed 'incompatible' and had to be
> removed. More and yet more re-starts. Even the supplied MS Word 'starter'
> edition simply delivers advertising for the outrageously expensive 'full'
> version and then hangs.
>
> I'm still trying to work out how to persuade this machine to do something
> useful. Intuitive it certainly ain't.
>
"Yes, I know it says Ubuntu. That is the new name for windows 8!" Do you
think you could get away with that? :-)
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