BBC Hails "fair" Microsoft XP SP1

Richard Bown writes "Continuing their current trend of only giving you half the story the BBC have this article on how fair and equitable Microsoft are these days. No mention of EULA changes."

Comments

Re:I'd love to know more about this trend

[JimPooley]

And of course Slashdot is a perfectly fair, totally unbiased and absolutely accurate source of news reporting, and not a Microsoft-hating heap of trashy tittle-tattle and geeky wank fantasy at all. Oh dear me no.

Re:My legal copy?

[emarkp]

You violated the EULA when you did that. You broke the contract you agreed to bu opening teh software by applyinga pacth to windows xp

Bull. EULA's don't mean anything. First sale is first sale. I bought the software, and I'm using it on one computer. You cannot agree to a contract the way MS presents them.

Re:Hiding them? Get rid of them!

[delus10n0]

Gee, thanks for allowing me to hide the stuff M$, everyone likes having useless software that still takes up disk space and probably still loads DLLs into memory that they can't see. I want the ability to remove the stuff, not just hide it. If I wanted to just hide it, I just wouldn't look at it!

Typical moronic comments from someone who loves to bash MS and doesn't have the slightest idea of how the Windows environment even works.

Cause gee, IE's complete API's are always loaded in memory and never get unloaded. And same with those pesky Outlook Express API's, even if I'm not using it! And they slow down my gaming so much, Quake3 runs 1 FPS slower! Can you believe that!? How dare Microsoft do that!

And disk space? Pfft. Give me a break. Is that even an issue with ANYTHING nowadays?

Why don't you go back to Windows 95 (without IE integration) and tell us all how great it is.

Re:British journalism sucks

[matrix29]

He's kicking more ass than the average euroPEON leader. For such an "idiot", GW Bush beats his opponents 100% of the time leaving them bitching and moaning like a 5 year old kicked in the nuts.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1446863. stm
Friday, 20 July, 2001, 06:51 GMT 07:51 UK
Bush's BBC interview in full

President Bush:
Well, I think the leaders appreciate somebody who is straightforward and open. I guess I could have gone with a strategy of playing like this makes sense. But I chose to be as open as I could and explain in terms that we share the same goal, that we will come with a strategy that makes sense, but that the treaty wasn't going to pass.

And there was no need for me to play like it was going to pass, particularly since the United States Senate had delivered a pretty clear message on a 95-to-nothing vote about our nation adhering to 1990 CO2 emission levels and reducing from there. That would be an economic impossibility for us to do.

We're spending a lot of money and time and effort on looking at interesting technologies - conservation technologies - and we look forward to sharing that with the rest of the world, as we all aim to reduce greenhouse gases.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/environment/jan-jun e01/bushenv_3-29.html
BUSH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
March 29, 2001

GWEN IFILL: After barely more than 60 days in office, President Bush has placed a distinctive mark on U.S. environmental policy, rolling back campaign promises on clean air, reversing Clinton administration initiatives on drinking water, and promoting new oil exploration in previously protected regions. And now the White House is taking steps to have the U.S. withdraw its support for a landmark 1997 global warming agreement signed in Kyoto, Japan. Environmental Protection Administrator Christie Todd Whitman told reporters the president had "no interest in implementing it." White House spokesman Ari Fleischer was even more blunt.

ARI FLEISCHER: The president has been unequivocal: He does not support the Kyoto treaty. It exempts the developing nations around the world and it is not in the United States' economic best interest. The president has directed his cabinet secretaries to begin a review so we can, as a nation, address a serious problem, which is global warming.

[ later in the article ]

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: We are now in an energy crisis. And that's why I decided to not have mandatory caps on CO2, because in order to meet those caps, our nation would have had to have had a lot of natural gas immediately flow into the system, which is impossible. We don't have the infrastructure able to move natural gas. We need to have an active exploration program. One of the big debates that's taking place in the Congress, or will take place in the Congress is whether or not we should be exploring for natural gas in Alaska -- for example, in ANWR. I strongly think we should. We have an energy shortage. I look forward to explaining this today to the leader of Germany as to why I made the decision I made. We'll be working with Germany. We'll be working with our allies to reduce greenhouse gases, but I will not accept a plan that will harm our economy and hurt American workers.

But of course this is just fine when Tony Blair and Criminal Traitor Lifetime-Cocaine-Addict Pathological-Liar George Worthless Bush share the same toothpaste.