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Vendors Rally While Windows Sleeps

Posted by kdawson on from the metaphors-just-don't-get-any-better dept.

Anti-Globalism sends along a PCWorld article outlining two technologies from Intel and Dell that do an end run around Windows. "Dell, Intel and their partners announced last week new technologies that represent major leaps forward for mobility. The companies seem to have discovered the secret to making such bold leaps: Cut Microsoft out of the deal. One technology involves enabling users to gain instant access to a laptop's e-mail, browser and other basic functionality — without booting Windows at all. The second technology enables an Internet-based message to wake a Windows PC from sleep mode. These new technologies are perfect metaphors for what's happening in the industry... Windows is asleep while Microsoft's own partners give users what they really want."

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  1. Shame on you Microsoft... by not+already+in+use · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...For not magically installing a chip on the motherboard of users clamoring for instant-on technology.

    And in the event that MS implements "awake from internet message" technology -- Slashdot headline of the day:

    "Microsoft introduces glaring security exploit as 'feature'"

    Tags: haha, m$, defectivebydesign

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    Similes are like metaphors
  2. Re:Sensationlist much? by networkzombie · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    If Microsoft were adding features to Windows, like when they added an internet browser and media player, would you be happier?

    Yep, provided they were:

    1. Easily replaceable by OEMs
    2. Easily replaceable by my own choices
    3. Coded to follow open standards
    4. Costed separately from the core OS (So I could save $10 by deselecting IE or WMP, for example.)

    Just like Apple.

    Against a free market, eh? You're not a communist, are you?