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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."
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If people have a problem with the EULA then that's a separate article.
(Now that I have an XP user in my grasp...) How difficult is it to turn those programs off? Is it hidden in an obscure Control Panel setting, three pages deep in the "Uber-Advanced Options", with a dozen warnings saying "This will break your computer and ruin your marriage, not to mention bring war to peaceful nations and kill a dozen kittens"?
I thought the settlement was still pending, this was just an attempt by MS to garner support for the less restrictive version of the settlement that is pending.
I keep hearing Gollum in the back of my head "niccce MS...MS play niccccce with lovely PC industry, M-esssssss not try to be bad, no, no, MS be good...yessss, my precisousssss O-essssssss"
Still, I also don't see what's wrong with the article. I can't recall reading any news stories that didn't just give the one side anyway. Sometimes they'll throw the opposing views a bone. But this really didn't have any opposing views... it was just a little fluff piece about the availability of the SP and what it did. No big deal.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
Maybe all componies should have some kids around :-)
to click on EULAs
> "Microsoft is due to release on 9 September a 133MB upgrade for its Windows XP operating system called Service Pack 1."
Wow, my 0.9x slackware was lighter !
But it didn't have anti-piracy features!
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
...when I first saw the subject "133MB", I was trying to figure out what "leemb" could possibly mean. Then I realized those actually were numbers.
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."
Yes that's why I come to slashdot.org, for pure unbiased reviews of windows! *snicker*
GoatPigSheep, the 3 most important food groups
It's also a service pack, ass.
Try to restrain your MS bashing for just one minute.
Not All Who Wander Are Lost
It's obvious what's going on here. For those of you not in the know, the BBC is actually a toy of the British government, supported by taxes (including the infamous television tax). These taxes bring us things like "Are You Being Served," "Whose Line is it Anyway?," and "1840 House: The Greatest Generation," but also the BBC News Service, who used to be a great, possibly the best, English (as in language) news source, until recently.
What's dastardly about these "news" stories is the trend of the BBC to overlook certain details. It reads like classic PR techniques applied in the American media for decades: News by Press Release. One theory is that BBC is feeling the effects of the global economic trouble, and more people are hiding their TVs than ever, decreasing funding while demand still increases. That's what some so-called investigators will tell you, but I've got the real truth.
There are two possibilities here, but I'm only going to go over in detail the most probable. Microsoft bought the BBC in a massive, but secret, merger, in an effort to compete with the bohemoth AOL/TW. The secrecy is required in order to avoid anti-trust processes from recurring.
Why not just hijack the public radio & TV here in the US? Trust. Your average joe user trusts the BBC; PBS in the US is kind of like the Discovery Channel for poor folk that can't afford basic cable, especially to see the topless natives.
People trust the BBC mostly because it's British, and most Americans trust the British for some reason. I, personally, haven't trusted them since the war of '76.
Why would London sell the BBC? The British government needs the money from MS to support the stupidly extravigant(sp) lifestyle afforded the royal family, especially since the Faulklands War in the early 80's, and the Royals are still a source of pride for the British people, well, at least the ones with bad teeth.
The other possiblity involves the Masons, Bush's not-so-secret Shadow Government, and Heidi Klum.
Actually, now that I think about it, there remains a final possiblity that seems really remote, but worth stating, at least in brief. Maybe, just possibly, perhaps perhaps perhaps it could be that the technical details were the focus of the article, and not the evil EULA. I'm not going to hedge my bets this way, though. It's obviously a conspiracy on a massive level.
Dan
XPSP1 already hacked
Heh - that's irony. Installing warezed service packs to patch security holes.