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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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(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.
> "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.
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XPSP1 already hacked
Heh - that's irony. Installing warezed service packs to patch security holes.