much as I love to MS-Bash (I'm a Linux using/. reader after all;-) ).
Why does bundling apps cause a problem (putting aside, usability, bugs exploits, etc.)? Every MS machine I've used quickly had firefox installed.
to use the much abused car-computer analogy, every car comes with a bundled CD player etc. anyone heard about Sony suing Nissan for providing cars with a competitive player? nope, me neither...
As a user of multiple OS's (XP, Vista and various *nix) I'm quite happy with Vista. Removed it within 24hrs for Ubuntu before factory restoring my system as I couldn't get all my new shiny hardware to work with Linux (ok, Linux fanboys... I could have tried harder but I was in my last month of University and needed a system that worked now. First time Linux has let me down though).
This gave me the opportunity to give Vista a try out before a reinstall of Linux, which now isn't going to happen without some changes (more targetted exploits for example). Only mistake I think MS made with Vista was to allow the new security features (UAC etc.) to be turned off by the user (leaving the 'pretty XP' arguement people keep making), although I've got to ask: wtf is up with the 'show text' option for password fields? sheer madness....
With regard to search, unless I'm mistaken Windows has had a search feature since forever (win3.1 I think, possibly earlier I'm not that old;-) ). Why are Microsoft getting slapped for improving part of their product and improving its prominence in line with user demand? If market research didn't show users wanted a search feature, MS wouldn't have implemented it and Google wouldn't care.
In regards to the fairness arguement, why should MS have to give fair access to THEIR software to a competitor?
Now I know this is/. so any pro/non-anti MS posts are against the law so, let the flames commence...
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much as I love to MS-Bash (I'm a Linux using /. reader after all ;-) ).
Why does bundling apps cause a problem (putting aside, usability, bugs exploits, etc.)? Every MS machine I've used quickly had firefox installed.
to use the much abused car-computer analogy, every car comes with a bundled CD player etc. anyone heard about Sony suing Nissan for providing cars with a competitive player? nope, me neither...
my 2p...
As a user of multiple OS's (XP, Vista and various *nix) I'm quite happy with Vista. Removed it within 24hrs for Ubuntu before factory restoring my system as I couldn't get all my new shiny hardware to work with Linux (ok, Linux fanboys... I could have tried harder but I was in my last month of University and needed a system that worked now. First time Linux has let me down though).
;-) ). Why are Microsoft getting slapped for improving part of their product and improving its prominence in line with user demand? If market research didn't show users wanted a search feature, MS wouldn't have implemented it and Google wouldn't care.
/. so any pro/non-anti MS posts are against the law so, let the flames commence...
This gave me the opportunity to give Vista a try out before a reinstall of Linux, which now isn't going to happen without some changes (more targetted exploits for example). Only mistake I think MS made with Vista was to allow the new security features (UAC etc.) to be turned off by the user (leaving the 'pretty XP' arguement people keep making), although I've got to ask: wtf is up with the 'show text' option for password fields? sheer madness....
With regard to search, unless I'm mistaken Windows has had a search feature since forever (win3.1 I think, possibly earlier I'm not that old
In regards to the fairness arguement, why should MS have to give fair access to THEIR software to a competitor?
Now I know this is
Never thought of it that way. makes me think... *head*hurts*