ROFL. Well, atleast with Vista's DRM you're guaranteed those viruses are 100% Authentic Genuine made for Vista viruses. And the Spyware popups look pretty and transparanty too!
I'd love to know more about the actual pros and cons of both OODLES (i really suck with abbreviations, I'm referring to Microsofts proposed standard) and UDUFFI (the other thingy). Can anyone point me to a good summary?
I don't see why Microsoft has to be so darn special and can't just adopt the ISO standard?
What is the REAL issue here? will it cost a lot in monetary and programming terms? Is the format broken or crippled? Or do they just want to be in control and suck us even drier and bog everything down even more with DRM and XZYguzzi3 and whatever else they've built into Vista that sucks 90% of my ram and makes sure that I own 156% legal Microsoft stuff and look both ways before I cross the street?
Why has there not been a successful anti-trust suite against Microsoft dealing with their extremely unfair OEM scheme? I would love to see legislation forcing Microsoft to charge both consumers and dealers exactly the same price for OEM and non-OEM versions of windows.
When I was recently driven to the verge of tears trying to sort out Vista on my laptop I promised myself to never ever buy a Windows machine again. Then I started thinking about what the implications of this decision would be.
I have not seen a vendor in my country willing to sell Laptops without any pre-installed OS. Granted, I haven't looked that hard yet, but why should I have to look that hard? So if I want to buy a non-Apple laptop and replace the pre-installed Windows OS with say for example Ubuntu (and please don't mention Dell! I don't want a Dell!), I will in essence pay a lot of money for a Windows license I'm not going to use. And giving any money to Microsoft irks me, never mind WASTED money.
Then there's the matter of alternatives:
My first choice non-Windows laptop would be some uber Apple Macbook Pro, but unfortunately I do not fall within that market bracket that Apple loves and I'm just not willing to pay the -in my opinion- HUGE premium Apple charges on hardware in a system that "just works". Vista is however pushing me hard in the direction of being willing to pay that premium.
Linux is unfortunately not even an option for me as I spend most of my time on Adobe software which simply isn't available on Linux.......yet? (pweaaaaase Mark Shuttleworth talk to Adobe!).....And please don't bother arguing along the lines of "but Gimp is better than Photoshop".
So, I'm stuck with Microsoft, unless I decide I'm willing to spend a huge amount on an Apple or give Microsoft money for free. That's how Microsoft makes a $Gazillion OS "affordable" and my only viable option. And every day my frustration grows.
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ROFL. Well, atleast with Vista's DRM you're guaranteed those viruses are 100% Authentic Genuine made for Vista viruses. And the Spyware popups look pretty and transparanty too!
I think he was referring to reports that MS will stop selling XP in June/July.
I'd love to know more about the actual pros and cons of both OODLES (i really suck with abbreviations, I'm referring to Microsofts proposed standard) and UDUFFI (the other thingy). Can anyone point me to a good summary?
I don't see why Microsoft has to be so darn special and can't just adopt the ISO standard? What is the REAL issue here? will it cost a lot in monetary and programming terms? Is the format broken or crippled? Or do they just want to be in control and suck us even drier and bog everything down even more with DRM and XZYguzzi3 and whatever else they've built into Vista that sucks 90% of my ram and makes sure that I own 156% legal Microsoft stuff and look both ways before I cross the street?
Why has there not been a successful anti-trust suite against Microsoft dealing with their extremely unfair OEM scheme? I would love to see legislation forcing Microsoft to charge both consumers and dealers exactly the same price for OEM and non-OEM versions of windows. When I was recently driven to the verge of tears trying to sort out Vista on my laptop I promised myself to never ever buy a Windows machine again. Then I started thinking about what the implications of this decision would be. I have not seen a vendor in my country willing to sell Laptops without any pre-installed OS. Granted, I haven't looked that hard yet, but why should I have to look that hard? So if I want to buy a non-Apple laptop and replace the pre-installed Windows OS with say for example Ubuntu (and please don't mention Dell! I don't want a Dell!), I will in essence pay a lot of money for a Windows license I'm not going to use. And giving any money to Microsoft irks me, never mind WASTED money. Then there's the matter of alternatives: My first choice non-Windows laptop would be some uber Apple Macbook Pro, but unfortunately I do not fall within that market bracket that Apple loves and I'm just not willing to pay the -in my opinion- HUGE premium Apple charges on hardware in a system that "just works". Vista is however pushing me hard in the direction of being willing to pay that premium. Linux is unfortunately not even an option for me as I spend most of my time on Adobe software which simply isn't available on Linux.......yet? (pweaaaaase Mark Shuttleworth talk to Adobe!) .....And please don't bother arguing along the lines of "but Gimp is better than Photoshop".
So, I'm stuck with Microsoft, unless I decide I'm willing to spend a huge amount on an Apple or give Microsoft money for free. That's how Microsoft makes a $Gazillion OS "affordable" and my only viable option. And every day my frustration grows.