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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?"
Toshiba & Sony I believe are the worst culprits
You would actually buy a Sony anything after they put rootkits on music CDs??? You're asking for trouble, son. They could put a hardware rootkit in your computer (or TV or any other garbage they make) and there would be no way possible to fix it.
No thanks, my daughter (who worked in a record store) played a Sony-BMG CD on the computer (it was also our stereo) and infected the PC with their evilware. I'd lost the drivers for my onboard sound chip and my video card. No drivers for the chip were available at all, and the only video drivers on the net were XP only. It cost me $200 and an afternoon to install XP and a Creative Audigy.
My 42 inch flat screen trinitron I bought 3 years ago was and will be the last Sony anything I'll buy, ever. They are about as trustworthy as a crack whore, and make Microsoft look like angels.
IMO anybody who would buy anything from Sony after that debacle is about as amart as my daughter's house cat. No, not even that smart; the cat knows to stay away from something that's dangerous!
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I wasn't aware one could respond to their own comments as AC. I guess I learned something today.
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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.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"