Microsoft Worried OEM 'Craplets' Will Harm Vista

elsilver writes "An article at the CBC indicates that Microsoft is worried that the assorted crap most OEM companies load onto a new machine may affect users' opinion of Vista. An unnamed executive is concerned that the user will conclude the instability of the non-MS-certified applications is Vista's fault. Is this a serious concern, or is MS trying to bully OEMs into only including Vista-certified apps? As for the OEMs, one "removed older DVD-writing software they found was incompatible and replaced it with Vista's own software." — do they get points for realizing it was both buggy AND redundant?"

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Re:Craplets?

[drinkypoo]

Their terrorism is Islamic Fascists - trying to make the rest of the world convert to Islam. It's in their Fatwas. They're committed to FORCING their way of thinking upon others. They've already waged war against my way of thinking. Whether I recognize it or not, there is a war. Will I fight for what I beleive?

Those Islamic fascists were stirred up by the first world's economically-motivated rape of the third world. Those people would have languished eternally with little support from the average person if we and other so-called world powers weren't constantly running around fucking people over in the name of profit. They've waged war on YOUR way of thinking? Why not try asking them how many of their civilians we've killed while cleaning up the messes we've made? We've literally waged war on their populations simply to make some cash. If you look at the history of US military conflicts, the overwhelming majority of the early battles were solely financially motivated. There's even a couple examples of us sending our navies down to bombard towns in central america (IIRC - don't think it was south america but I could be wrong) in order to force them to sell fruit to the united fruit conglomerates.

The simple fact is that we have created these terrorists in much the same way Al Gore "created" the internet. Sure, they were around before we got involved. But they weren't terrorists then. They didn't have to be. That was before we started bombing their civilians, basically doing all the things we're upset at them for. The difference is that since they have been fucked over for so long, they can't afford to actually wage a war with us, so they have to steal planes and crash them into things.

If we hadn't been around there fucking the whole situation up, mostly for oil but also for random assorted bullshit including the so-called "WAR ON DRUGS" (which I hope we all know by now is a complete farce that is solely for-profit - and which was the vehicle for funneling cash to Osama Bin Laden in the name of preventing Afghani opium exports) then it seems very unlikely that so many people would be trying to blow up our citizens today.

WE are the murderers. They're just participating in a sort of eye-for-an-eye thing. And they're STILL far, far behind.

If you want more evidence that the federal government gives not one fuck about protecting you from anything, consider that they made a huge, gigantic deal out of 9/11 but they did everything they could to forget about the disaster in New Orleans, mismanaged the entire affair horribly, and basically neglected the people who lived in the area... unless they had money. They don't want to protect you. They don't care if you live so long as GNP is not affected. In fact, the more people die, the more fervor they can whip up and the more rights they can take away in the name of protecting your freedom.