2 Warn customers that acquiring the PC "naked" and subsequently pirating the software is never a good option. Explain the risks: technical troubles, upgrade problems, viruses and the law. Politely decline to expose your buyers or their businesses to such troubles.
Yeah! and install a REAL OS instead. Ummm, last time I checked, I inherited "such troubles" WITH a Micro$oft OS on the machine.
I'd like to see someone (yeah - hi Billg@micro$oft.com) spend a little money on reducing the size and increasing performance of these operating systems.
I'd much rather hear that Whistler will be two times faster and two times smaller than previous releases.
No, we can't all be like Steve Gibson (grc.com) and write everything in assembly, but there is something to learn from all those computer science classes.
For example, has anyone compared how much RAM Windows Media Player 7 soaks up compared to, say, WinAmp?
It takes me 130MB of RAM to boot Win2k Pro with a personal firewall and antivirus s/w. What?
puh-leez!! Let's forget the cutesey-ness and focus on optimizing our resources.
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puh-leez!!
I'd like to see someone (yeah - hi Billg@micro$oft.com) spend a little money on reducing the size and increasing performance of these operating systems.
I'd much rather hear that Whistler will be two times faster and two times smaller than previous releases.
No, we can't all be like Steve Gibson (grc.com) and write everything in assembly, but there is something to learn from all those computer science classes.
For example, has anyone compared how much RAM Windows Media Player 7 soaks up compared to, say, WinAmp?
It takes me 130MB of RAM to boot Win2k Pro with a personal firewall and antivirus s/w. What?
puh-leez!! Let's forget the cutesey-ness and focus on optimizing our resources.
-bp