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  1. Re:VISTA was lauched in BETA by Proudrooster · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Microsoft Concedes Vista Launch Problems

    No really, VISTA was released in BETA.

    Brian Valentine, Senior Vice President at Microsoft shoved VISTA out the door so he could get his singing bonus when he quit Microsoft and hired on at Amazon prior to the VISTA release.

    Really, I am not pushing FUD on the VISTA release. It was a pretty front end, built on unfinished software. The manager who usually got these projects over the finish line bailed out leaving an unfinished code-base and leadership vacuum. To me this was evident in VISTA. Additionally, all of Microsoft's side deals to cripple.control functionality on media playback and the annoying security pop-ups made VISTA annoying and slow performing.

  2. OLPC Sugar Reviewed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on OLPC Operating System Available to Download

    Here's a review that I found for OLPC Sugar: http://osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&I temid=&task=view&id=2530

  3. Dystopic google? by alexandre · · Score: 1 · on Google's Silent Monopoly

    Here is a bunch of link i gathered about google and a dystopic future, they are a fun read ;-)

    The future of google?
    http://www.richardmartineau.net/museum/

    Google and social control?
    http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/mg19125691 .800

    Generic google watch:
    http://www.google-watch.org/

    And what if google had an OS, would it give you privacy?
    http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_conte nt&Itemid=&task=view&id=2309

  4. Re:Where's the beef? by Osty · · Score: 1 · on A New Kind of OS

    Must be a slow news day. I read through the entire article and I didn't find anything substantial. He spends 6 paragraphs on the first "page" explaining how cool (and "weird") it would be to attach adaptive intelligence to our workflow. (His example is, what if the computer knew when NOT to bother you with email?)

    You think that's great? You should read the "Opera 8.0 vs. Pocket IE" review. 3/4s of the first page of the review is spent explaining what a web browser and web server are (in horribly bad terms, no less).

  5. OSWEEKLY can suck it by demo9orgon · · Score: -1, Troll · on PC-BSD: The Most Beginner Friendly OS

    Because the moment you read this little gem,
    Should I Really Care About Linux?
    from their editor it's pretty blatant that OSWeekly is the kind of Windows-fanboy fluffer-site that would feature something like PC_BSD as "Easy" to crush the Linux-curious back into line.
    Such things are intented to play out like,
    "I read that it was easy but then it completely pwned me (waaaaaaah!), screw Linux!"
    (yeah, I know it's not Linux but most Windows users assume anything like PC_BSD==LINUX)

    I've added the OSWEEKLY site to my hosts file, that most wonderful of resources.
    Mmmmmm...schweet schweet 0.0.0.0 ness, because they're insignificant and if I didn't already have all their add-servers in there I'd have probably seen through them immediately.

    And before people start pointing out that Slashdot runs M$ ads, Slashdot is about much more than Operating Systems, right?
    Excellent.
    Cheers.