A few days agoI had to reinstall XP on my desktop PC because the system had been corrupted by a virus. It took me hours to reinstall XP and to update the system with all those service packs and patches available. There were about 100 updates that had to be installed even after Service Pack II had been installed. I guess at least once a week they find a new security hole that needs to be fixed. I can't do it right now. But I decided to switch over to Apple as soon I buy a new computer. I really got enough of this shit. The big advantage of Microsoft used to be that you could get new software very "easily". But those times a gone, cause you always risk that along with the new software you get all kinds of viruses, Trojan horses or other malware.

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Gates (an amalgam of the previous Robber Barons' Carnegie, Gould, and J. P. Morgan) finally got what he deserves.

Notice it's not in our Judicial System, though.

Gates? He won't feel even the slightest injury from this.

Shipping a version of Win without Media Player? That's pretty pathetic. Do they really think that anyone cares enough either way about Media Player?

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True, he's too rich.

Jail time is needed.

Clearly.

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And to make sure of meaning, the slammer siesta is needed for HOW he made his $, NOT that he is rich.

Of course, nobody deserve prison time for the sole reason that they are rich. The reason for becoming rich must be the cause of the prison sentence.

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the eu decision is nothing to clap about ..its ridiculous ..I have no love for MS, but if you read their reasoning, its well, left me aghast....

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No individual can plan his own existence in their view.

So the state planners must arrogate to themselves the right to manipulate any sector of the economic system if the good of “society” or the “general welfare” is paramount.

Ipso- if the rights of the individual get in the way, the rights of the individual must be sublimated.

The Road to Serfdom
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and there’s your sane answer to MS, IF you hate them don't use them...penalizing them because they are better or, bundle their own platform with their own products is ridiculous ..get a different op system and say screw it, no one is making you buy MS...DL Linux..and screw MS media player.,.so if I invent a widget, I now have to leave room for a competitors widget to be comparable inside MY product? yea sure....

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No individual can plan his own existence in their view.

So the state planners must arrogate to themselves the right to manipulate any sector of the economic system if the good of “society” or the “general welfare” is paramount.

Ipso- if the rights of the individual get in the way, the rights of the individual must be sublimated.

The Road to Serfdom
FA Hayek (interpretation)


Mortgage Backed Security survivor

PC users still prefer Windows to Vista - Telegraph

Just caught this today on slashdot... It's looking more and more to me like Vista is a pretty big failure. I mean, people are obviously buying it, but I can't remember another major MS OS where people were actually complaining and requesting older ones. And, when you factor in the relative development time/effort/money of this one compared to the other ones, it looks pretty bad.

Makes me wonder if they haven't gone in the wrong direction, and should have issued a series of quasi-patches or something. It seems to me that the GUI for OS (which is what the vast majority of users, including commercial ones care about) is relatively standardized now. With the ubiquitousness of distributed applications and browser based technology, I'm wondering if the development time spent on Vista isn't going to turn out to be Microsoft's Netscape.

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"True, he's too rich. Jail time is needed."

...yeah - penalizing Microsoft for success is asinine (and the quote above is the absolute epitome of such silliness). I do believe that they've practiced extremely unethical business practices (i.e. violating IP law and tying the little guy up in court until he's bankrupt and it becomes a moot point, issuing software, knowing in advance it will damage their customers, etc), but that isn't to say that they should arbitrarily be punished. Nail 'em for anti-trust where appropriate, or any real business law violations.

Of course, I have no real love or hate for any particular technological branding - I use whatever does the job best as I need it. A lot of Microsoft's products have sucked historically, but they've hardly got the market cornered on shoddy software.

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I am not in the IT world anymore, however I still have contacts and I am in a "heavy computer use" field. What is surprising to me is that I have basically heard nothing. It is as if it wasn't even released yet.
Like I stated before corporate purchased a legion of new PC's - and they have XP Pro on them.
I know a guy who owns a computer shop here in town - he says basically the same thing you just did - people are requesting XP (if they know to) - and yes that is indeed strange.
I note Halo 2 will only work on Vista - I have little doubt this was done on purpose, I can think of no other game released so close to an OS date that it would not work on the previous OS...I will look forward to the crack for that as soon as it is available.

The best thing about Vista is that I could get a real cheap XP preinstalled notebook during the launch hype because I guess the store thought it would be a hard sell.

Windows ME?

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Thoughts awe hame tak awa ma fear
Sweat an bluid hide ma veil awe tears

I wouldn't really consider that "major".

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