PROCESSOR AMD Athlon(TM) 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800+ OPERATING SYSTEM FreeDOS(TM) included in the box, ready to install MEMORY 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs HARD DRIVE 320GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache(TM) OPTICAL DRIVE 16x DVD+/-RW Drive MONITORS 19 inch E197FP Analog Flat Panel VIDEO CARD 256MB NVIDIA Geforce 7300LE TurboCache SOUND CARD Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio My Accessories SPEAKERS No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system) KEYBOARD & MOUSE Dell USB Keyboard and Dell 2-button Scroll Mouse FLOPPY & MEDIA READER No Floppy Drive Included MODEM 56K PCI Data Fax Modem My Software My Service WARRANTY AND SERVICE 1Yr Ltd Warranty and At-Home Service
The one with Free DOS (no OS) final cost is $789
The one with WinXP Media Center Edition 2005 is $769
The 320GB hard drive is a free upgrade for the Windows system, but for the non-OS system it adds to the cost. What a crock.
Circuit City sells prepaid downloads for eMusic, it's much cheaper than buying CDs, and you get DRM free MP3s that can play on iPods, Zens, car decks, etc.
I'm glad someone else pointed this out. I work for a government contractor, and there is alot of FUD about the "viral GPL". There are huge misconceptions about the GPL. I've been to meetings where people have said that we can't use GPL code because we are obligated to send back the changes to the authors.
Meanwhile, the irony is that you typically give the govt customer your source code anyways. The government can turn around and give it to anyone else they please. It's the perfect place to reuse as much GPL stuff as you want, but we currently stand clear of it totally.
I don't understand the web hordes fascination with Pirate Bay. If the Pirate Bay is what they view as "the way it should be" they are complete idiots. Is there viewpoint essentially that anything that can transfered around as data should be freely redistributable? Books? Computer software? Games? Music? Videos?
The only kind of people who could support something that ridiculous are the kinda people that just want to freeload everything. It's simply not fair, and it won't work. Software developers, artists, actors, and authors all need to be able to put food on their table. Yeah, it may be impossible to stop piracy 100%. But the web hordes need to get some morales, and stop stealing content from media producers.
And there reasoning is always something along the lines of they don't like the RIAA price-fixing ways, or they don't like these cruddy Hollywood big budget movies, etc. Stealing content IS NOT THE ANSWER! If you don't like Hollywood, don't go to the theatre, don't buy the DVDs, and don't DOWNLOAD it either (after all, it's crud anyways). If you don't like the RIAA, don't buy CDs from RIAA labels. Places like eMusic have a great selection of music, many of which have no RIAA affiliations.
If you don't like the "Microsoft tax", you don't have to pay it, but don't use Windows either. Learn to live with GNU/BSD alternatives. Consider contributing.
There are alternatives if you don't want to pay for content. Stealing it isn't (legally) one of the alternatives, and it never will be.
I kinda like the sounds of having something like Java supported by the player/media. But I hope it's not abused. It's very frustrating when you want to just throw a DVD in and start it right away for it to force you through all the trailers, deluxe menus, etc. Sometimes you really do just want to start the movie.
Disney is the absolute WORSE about this. That fugging 'Fast Play' crap is obnoxious. There is nothing fast about it. It infuriates me every time I have to deal with it. If it wasn't for the fact that I have a 4 yr old, I would never buy a Disney movie again just because of that garbage.
I wish someone had the balls to put a switch on the player or a button on the remote, so that you skip everything and go straight to the feature.
In my limited experience with VB6 at my work, I've found:
Cons: - Doesn't really support multiple threads. I think there is a way you can do it via ActiveX controls, but it's not really built into the language like it is in Java. - It's not really Object Oriented. It sorta has objects, but it doesn't even support inheritance. - Your pretty much tied to using Visual Studio as the editor, and it shows it's age - Your stuck with Windows for the rest of the applications existence - VBs horrible syntax - The whole language will give you a "half-assed" feeling
Pros: - Stupid easy to build a GUI - RS-232 interface is also very easy in VB6, but strangely, it's a PITA in VB.net
I honestly don't think there is much of anything I would recommend it to be used for. Maybe to learn basic programming skills, or a REALLY quickly thrown together GUI, but nothing big. I would look at C++ or C# for.net, or Java myself.
I didn't state it very clearly. What I'm basically saying is that when you look at the performance of the hardware (on Windows, where they both shine the best), they are very even. NVidia doesn't have much (if any) hardware advantage over ATI.
But when you compare their performance in Linux, the ATI cards are always much slower. The hardware hasn't changed, so it must be the driver. Since nVidia knows that their driver is superior, they probably wouldn't want to open source it, for fear of giving ATI any insight as to how it designed.
Also, I've had nothing but great experiences installing drivers for NVidia on both Windows and Linux. For me, the nVidia drivers have always "just worked", and ATI drivers have not.
It's not nVidia's hardware that has won their favor in the Linux community, it's their driver software.
The Linux/FOSS community really really wants ATI and/or NVidia to open source their driver.
The way I see it though, NVidia will never act first, and they shouldn't. NVidia's excellent software drivers have led them to become the undisputed favorite graphics card chipset for Linux users. The hardware performance (atleast in Windows) between the top level ATI and NVidia cards is pretty similar. So NVidia has a distinct advantage over ATI in this regard, and they won't want to give it up.
On the ATI front though, it's a whole different story. Every one knows their graphic drivers are lousy. No Linux enthusiast would ever pick an ATI card. But if ATI were to release an open source driver, they *INSTANTLY* become the favorite card for Linux enthusiasts. Plus, with community support, the driver can only get better. It's a win-win. They gain support of Linux users, plus potentially get a better driver.
Why ATI hasn't already done this, I don't know. What could be in their driver (which we all know is lousy) that they need to hide from NVidia? And as far as AMDs role, would some new management possibly reopen the issue as far as letting the driver go open source?
Re:Rumors that they're 'upgrading' from Ada.
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I believe the current ones would probably use C/C++ since they are using VxWorks according to Windriver. If they are using a RTOS now, I think moving to something like Java would be a huge jump. I could see them moving to embedded Linux though, it's becoming alot more popular in the embedded world
I'm using Dapper RC1 x86_64. I wasn't able to install the.deb (complained that it was for.i386). Doesn't really surprise me, wine is only really usable in my 32-bit chroot. Picassa also installed fine in my 32-bit chroot.
btw, since this release includes wine. How does that affect the wine package that I already have installed?
Pirates comes with a DVD that has a 1280x720.wmv file. It's one of the top films in adult entertainment, and won numberous awards from AVN.
As a bonus, Digital Playground released it with no DRM. So even Mac/Linux folks can enjoy it in HD. Kudos to Digital Playground for that.
http://www.hdtvtotal.com/module-pagesetter-viewpub -tid-1-pid-775.html
We (atleast the US) need to free ourselves from this dependency on oil. It's a resource we will eventually deplete, and as we deplete it the cost will go so high no one will be able to afford it. We can't get away from this dependency overnight, but we should do it in steps.
I think this is a very good start. It may not work for everybody, but I think a large portion of cars spend most of the days going to and from workplaces close to their homes. As people transition from gas to electric, it will free up gas for those who still need it (construction, trucks, long commutes).
I also think this is a better solution than Hybrids. Hybrids are just postponing the crisis, they really aren't going to solve the fundamental problem. I love my 98 Camaro Z28 (350+ HP, 20mpg), and would never get rid of it, but I would definitely consider transitioning my daily drivers over to alternative fuels, even if I did have to compromise performance. With gas at $3.00+ gallon, this is much more attractive than electric cars were in the 90s.
And yes, I see your point that the electricty has to be generated somewhere (the power plant), but a power plant has many more options for fuel. Water, wind, solar, and nuclear are not practical for a car, but will be OK for a power plant. Also, power is cheaper from the power plant than when you create it yourself in a combustion engine.
I'm eager to try out the new Ubuntu when it comes out. Will we be able to upgrade to 6, or will we need to do a complete reinstall?
I used to have FC4 x86_64 on my system, and have since then put Ubuntu on it. I think I like Ubuntu more. I was dissapointed/annoyed that so much of the stuff built into FC were missing in Ubuntu, but I've pretty much added back everything I wanted (using synaptic, which is best package manager I've played with yet). The big thing I was missing was the stuff to compile stuff by hand, but it looks like after RTFA, that will be easy to fix (apt-get install build-essentials). I also wish the Ubuntu repository was a little more up to date, because I've had to install some stuff by hand.
But the big pros have been the great package manager. Wine, Firefox, and whatnot work good in my chroot, better than I got them to work in FC4. X was leaking memory on my system in FC4, but with Ubuntu it doesn't. Overall, I liked both alot, but I think I like Ubuntu a little bit better.
Sony seems to have warmed up to Linux on it's consoles, which I think is great. I'm guessing that would come to a quick death if Microsoft was in charge.
But have a hard time finding one. I want 64-bit (which only AMDs Turion line has support for), and a NVidia graphics card (preferabbly one with dedicated memory) because we all know how great ATI's Linux drivers are. Any recommendations. Almost all the Turion laptops I see come with Radeon XPress GPUs. What brands sell such a configuration?
2000 - 2003 Migration Creating Problems
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My employer just migrated all of our systems to Office 2003. I have already seen several problems. We have lots of documentation from the past few years created in 2000. I would say I'm having problems loading up 50% of our sizeable (ones that actually use styles, links, etc) documents in 2003. Fortunately, the Open and Repair feature has been able to open them for me (and point out a rather unhelpful list of errors that I have no control over). So this migration isn't a disaster, but it hasn't been seemless either.
Furthermore, while it looks different, I haven't even noticed anything really novel about the new version.
On my homepage I have some benchmarks of my system running Fedora Core 4 x86 and x86_64. It seemed like most apps would either be just slightly slower (~5%), or quite a bit faster (~30-40%). I'm pretty sure the UT2004 benchmark is wrong on my site, ignore it.
I haven't read anywhere if it implements the 64-bit extensions, and obviously haven't heard anything about the 64-bit performance. And I _do_ care since I'm already running Fedora Core 4 x86_64 on an Athlon64 3200+.
I've used iTunes very briefly on my father's WinXP machine, and thought it was pretty neat. I then found out about amaroK for Linux and installed it, and have instantly fallen in love with it.
What does iTunes have to offer that amaroK doesn't match?
I'm assuming the online music store would be the biggest one, but what else?
I'm not a big rotary fan, I think it's an over-rated engine. I much prefer the sound and power of a GM V8.
Check out the hinson supercar's FAQ where they talk about the benefits of swapping out the rotary for LS1 V8. It greatly improves all performance characteristics, and it's actually lighter than the rotary it replaces.
GMs new LS7 V8 (in the 06 Z06) has 7.0L of displacement (as opposed to the mear 5.7L of the LS1) for an extra 150HP all in the same small block chevy package.
Let me know when the benchmarks come out...
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I would like to see how AMD X2 fares against the CoreDuo iMac. Ah heck, throw some spicy hot netburst P4s in there too.
I'm using Fedora Core 5 x86_64. You can compile both a 32-bit and 64-bit MPlayer. I run firefox in 32-bit mode so Flash works, and use the 32-bit MPlayer plugin. Everything else stays 64-bit. I've found it a good compromise.
I'm using a WinXP machine here at my work, and I use FC4 at home. I'm actually hesitant to click on any images from the comments section, cause I'm sort of expecting someone maliciously/jokingly to post a link to a site that would install this. Anyone else on Windows getting that same feeling?
I think that would be one of the greatest threats of spreading this. Message forums and blogs are so popular now, 1 malicious person could post the offending multimedia file for other to view on a website that they would typically trust.
It's days like this I'm glad I use Linux now at home.
So, the vulnerability is 6 months old, and it never got fixed as a minor risk. It got escalated to a highly critical risk (by almost all security bulletin systems) over 1 week ago, when a proof of concept came out showing that a malicious site could cause take control of PC remotely. Now there is even malicious trojans out on the net exploiting this hole in IE.
So in 1 week, what did MS do? The promoted their new Live product of course. Microsoft released a security advisory stating that no patch exists to fix the problem, but you can visit the Windows Live Safety Center and get the trojan removed by Microsoft. So instead of using some resources to fix the problem, they instead devoted resources to their "anti-virus" software, and promote it as the workaround. Well, one wonders, if this causes them to get significant visibility and traffic to their new product, why bother even fixing the original problem?
If I can't open the document in the future because a future version of Microsoft Word fails to recognize my word document made with Word 2000, how will the accessibility features help anything? The motivation behind open document format is to preserve the ability to open these documents in the future.
And if accessibility is such a big issue, couldn't concerned users have both Open Office and Word installed, then have Open Office save the file as a word document, so said disabled person can use Word to view it.
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I configured both an E521 and a E521n identically
PROCESSOR AMD Athlon(TM) 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800+
OPERATING SYSTEM FreeDOS(TM) included in the box, ready to install
MEMORY 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs
HARD DRIVE 320GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache(TM)
OPTICAL DRIVE 16x DVD+/-RW Drive
MONITORS 19 inch E197FP Analog Flat Panel
VIDEO CARD 256MB NVIDIA Geforce 7300LE TurboCache
SOUND CARD Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
My Accessories
SPEAKERS No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system)
KEYBOARD & MOUSE Dell USB Keyboard and Dell 2-button Scroll Mouse
FLOPPY & MEDIA READER No Floppy Drive Included
MODEM 56K PCI Data Fax Modem
My Software
My Service
WARRANTY AND SERVICE 1Yr Ltd Warranty and At-Home Service
The one with Free DOS (no OS) final cost is $789
The one with WinXP Media Center Edition 2005 is $769
The 320GB hard drive is a free upgrade for the Windows system, but for the non-OS system it adds to the cost. What a crock.
Circuit City sells prepaid downloads for eMusic, it's much cheaper than buying CDs, and you get DRM free MP3s that can play on iPods, Zens, car decks, etc.
I'm glad someone else pointed this out. I work for a government contractor, and there is alot of FUD about the "viral GPL". There are huge misconceptions about the GPL. I've been to meetings where people have said that we can't use GPL code because we are obligated to send back the changes to the authors.
Meanwhile, the irony is that you typically give the govt customer your source code anyways. The government can turn around and give it to anyone else they please. It's the perfect place to reuse as much GPL stuff as you want, but we currently stand clear of it totally.
I don't understand the web hordes fascination with Pirate Bay. If the Pirate Bay is what they view as "the way it should be" they are complete idiots. Is there viewpoint essentially that anything that can transfered around as data should be freely redistributable? Books? Computer software? Games? Music? Videos?
The only kind of people who could support something that ridiculous are the kinda people that just want to freeload everything. It's simply not fair, and it won't work. Software developers, artists, actors, and authors all need to be able to put food on their table. Yeah, it may be impossible to stop piracy 100%. But the web hordes need to get some morales, and stop stealing content from media producers.
And there reasoning is always something along the lines of they don't like the RIAA price-fixing ways, or they don't like these cruddy Hollywood big budget movies, etc. Stealing content IS NOT THE ANSWER! If you don't like Hollywood, don't go to the theatre, don't buy the DVDs, and don't DOWNLOAD it either (after all, it's crud anyways). If you don't like the RIAA, don't buy CDs from RIAA labels. Places like eMusic have a great selection of music, many of which have no RIAA affiliations.
If you don't like the "Microsoft tax", you don't have to pay it, but don't use Windows either. Learn to live with GNU/BSD alternatives. Consider contributing.
There are alternatives if you don't want to pay for content. Stealing it isn't (legally) one of the alternatives, and it never will be.
I kinda like the sounds of having something like Java supported by the player/media. But I hope it's not abused. It's very frustrating when you want to just throw a DVD in and start it right away for it to force you through all the trailers, deluxe menus, etc. Sometimes you really do just want to start the movie. Disney is the absolute WORSE about this. That fugging 'Fast Play' crap is obnoxious. There is nothing fast about it. It infuriates me every time I have to deal with it. If it wasn't for the fact that I have a 4 yr old, I would never buy a Disney movie again just because of that garbage. I wish someone had the balls to put a switch on the player or a button on the remote, so that you skip everything and go straight to the feature.
In my limited experience with VB6 at my work, I've found:
.net, or Java myself.
Cons:
- Doesn't really support multiple threads. I think there is a way you can do it via ActiveX controls, but it's not really built into the language like it is in Java.
- It's not really Object Oriented. It sorta has objects, but it doesn't even support inheritance.
- Your pretty much tied to using Visual Studio as the editor, and it shows it's age
- Your stuck with Windows for the rest of the applications existence
- VBs horrible syntax
- The whole language will give you a "half-assed" feeling
Pros:
- Stupid easy to build a GUI
- RS-232 interface is also very easy in VB6, but strangely, it's a PITA in VB.net
I honestly don't think there is much of anything I would recommend it to be used for. Maybe to learn basic programming skills, or a REALLY quickly thrown together GUI, but nothing big. I would look at C++ or C# for
I didn't state it very clearly. What I'm basically saying is that when you look at the performance of the hardware (on Windows, where they both shine the best), they are very even. NVidia doesn't have much (if any) hardware advantage over ATI. But when you compare their performance in Linux, the ATI cards are always much slower. The hardware hasn't changed, so it must be the driver. Since nVidia knows that their driver is superior, they probably wouldn't want to open source it, for fear of giving ATI any insight as to how it designed. Also, I've had nothing but great experiences installing drivers for NVidia on both Windows and Linux. For me, the nVidia drivers have always "just worked", and ATI drivers have not. It's not nVidia's hardware that has won their favor in the Linux community, it's their driver software.
The Linux/FOSS community really really wants ATI and/or NVidia to open source their driver.
The way I see it though, NVidia will never act first, and they shouldn't. NVidia's excellent software drivers have led them to become the undisputed favorite graphics card chipset for Linux users. The hardware performance (atleast in Windows) between the top level ATI and NVidia cards is pretty similar. So NVidia has a distinct advantage over ATI in this regard, and they won't want to give it up.
On the ATI front though, it's a whole different story. Every one knows their graphic drivers are lousy. No Linux enthusiast would ever pick an ATI card. But if ATI were to release an open source driver, they *INSTANTLY* become the favorite card for Linux enthusiasts. Plus, with community support, the driver can only get better. It's a win-win. They gain support of Linux users, plus potentially get a better driver.
Why ATI hasn't already done this, I don't know. What could be in their driver (which we all know is lousy) that they need to hide from NVidia? And as far as AMDs role, would some new management possibly reopen the issue as far as letting the driver go open source?
I believe the current ones would probably use C/C++ since they are using VxWorks according to Windriver. If they are using a RTOS now, I think moving to something like Java would be a huge jump. I could see them moving to embedded Linux though, it's becoming alot more popular in the embedded world
I'm using Dapper RC1 x86_64. I wasn't able to install the .deb (complained that it was for .i386). Doesn't really surprise me, wine is only really usable in my 32-bit chroot. Picassa also installed fine in my 32-bit chroot.
btw, since this release includes wine. How does that affect the wine package that I already have installed?
Pirates comes with a DVD that has a 1280x720 .wmv file. It's one of the top films in adult entertainment, and won numberous awards from AVN.
As a bonus, Digital Playground released it with no DRM. So even Mac/Linux folks can enjoy it in HD. Kudos to Digital Playground for that.
http://www.hdtvtotal.com/module-pagesetter-viewpub -tid-1-pid-775.html
We (atleast the US) need to free ourselves from this dependency on oil. It's a resource we will eventually deplete, and as we deplete it the cost will go so high no one will be able to afford it. We can't get away from this dependency overnight, but we should do it in steps.
I think this is a very good start. It may not work for everybody, but I think a large portion of cars spend most of the days going to and from workplaces close to their homes. As people transition from gas to electric, it will free up gas for those who still need it (construction, trucks, long commutes).
I also think this is a better solution than Hybrids. Hybrids are just postponing the crisis, they really aren't going to solve the fundamental problem. I love my 98 Camaro Z28 (350+ HP, 20mpg), and would never get rid of it, but I would definitely consider transitioning my daily drivers over to alternative fuels, even if I did have to compromise performance. With gas at $3.00+ gallon, this is much more attractive than electric cars were in the 90s.
And yes, I see your point that the electricty has to be generated somewhere (the power plant), but a power plant has many more options for fuel. Water, wind, solar, and nuclear are not practical for a car, but will be OK for a power plant. Also, power is cheaper from the power plant than when you create it yourself in a combustion engine.
I'm eager to try out the new Ubuntu when it comes out. Will we be able to upgrade to 6, or will we need to do a complete reinstall? I used to have FC4 x86_64 on my system, and have since then put Ubuntu on it. I think I like Ubuntu more. I was dissapointed/annoyed that so much of the stuff built into FC were missing in Ubuntu, but I've pretty much added back everything I wanted (using synaptic, which is best package manager I've played with yet). The big thing I was missing was the stuff to compile stuff by hand, but it looks like after RTFA, that will be easy to fix (apt-get install build-essentials). I also wish the Ubuntu repository was a little more up to date, because I've had to install some stuff by hand. But the big pros have been the great package manager. Wine, Firefox, and whatnot work good in my chroot, better than I got them to work in FC4. X was leaking memory on my system in FC4, but with Ubuntu it doesn't. Overall, I liked both alot, but I think I like Ubuntu a little bit better.
Sony seems to have warmed up to Linux on it's consoles, which I think is great. I'm guessing that would come to a quick death if Microsoft was in charge.
But have a hard time finding one. I want 64-bit (which only AMDs Turion line has support for), and a NVidia graphics card (preferabbly one with dedicated memory) because we all know how great ATI's Linux drivers are. Any recommendations. Almost all the Turion laptops I see come with Radeon XPress GPUs. What brands sell such a configuration?
My employer just migrated all of our systems to Office 2003. I have already seen several problems. We have lots of documentation from the past few years created in 2000. I would say I'm having problems loading up 50% of our sizeable (ones that actually use styles, links, etc) documents in 2003. Fortunately, the Open and Repair feature has been able to open them for me (and point out a rather unhelpful list of errors that I have no control over). So this migration isn't a disaster, but it hasn't been seemless either.
Furthermore, while it looks different, I haven't even noticed anything really novel about the new version.
On my homepage I have some benchmarks of my system running Fedora Core 4 x86 and x86_64. It seemed like most apps would either be just slightly slower (~5%), or quite a bit faster (~30-40%). I'm pretty sure the UT2004 benchmark is wrong on my site, ignore it.
I haven't read anywhere if it implements the 64-bit extensions, and obviously haven't heard anything about the 64-bit performance. And I _do_ care since I'm already running Fedora Core 4 x86_64 on an Athlon64 3200+.
I've used iTunes very briefly on my father's WinXP machine, and thought it was pretty neat. I then found out about amaroK for Linux and installed it, and have instantly fallen in love with it.
What does iTunes have to offer that amaroK doesn't match?
I'm assuming the online music store would be the biggest one, but what else?
I'm not a big rotary fan, I think it's an over-rated engine. I much prefer the sound and power of a GM V8.
Check out the hinson supercar's FAQ where they talk about the benefits of swapping out the rotary for LS1 V8. It greatly improves all performance characteristics, and it's actually lighter than the rotary it replaces.
GMs new LS7 V8 (in the 06 Z06) has 7.0L of displacement (as opposed to the mear 5.7L of the LS1) for an extra 150HP all in the same small block chevy package.
I would like to see how AMD X2 fares against the CoreDuo iMac. Ah heck, throw some spicy hot netburst P4s in there too.
I'm using Fedora Core 5 x86_64. You can compile both a 32-bit and 64-bit MPlayer. I run firefox in 32-bit mode so Flash works, and use the 32-bit MPlayer plugin. Everything else stays 64-bit. I've found it a good compromise.
I'm using a WinXP machine here at my work, and I use FC4 at home. I'm actually hesitant to click on any images from the comments section, cause I'm sort of expecting someone maliciously/jokingly to post a link to a site that would install this. Anyone else on Windows getting that same feeling?
I think that would be one of the greatest threats of spreading this. Message forums and blogs are so popular now, 1 malicious person could post the offending multimedia file for other to view on a website that they would typically trust.
It's days like this I'm glad I use Linux now at home.
So, the vulnerability is 6 months old, and it never got fixed as a minor risk. It got escalated to a highly critical risk (by almost all security bulletin systems) over 1 week ago, when a proof of concept came out showing that a malicious site could cause take control of PC remotely. Now there is even malicious trojans out on the net exploiting this hole in IE.
So in 1 week, what did MS do? The promoted their new Live product of course. Microsoft released a security advisory stating that no patch exists to fix the problem, but you can visit the Windows Live Safety Center and get the trojan removed by Microsoft. So instead of using some resources to fix the problem, they instead devoted resources to their "anti-virus" software, and promote it as the workaround. Well, one wonders, if this causes them to get significant visibility and traffic to their new product, why bother even fixing the original problem?
If I can't open the document in the future because a future version of Microsoft Word fails to recognize my word document made with Word 2000, how will the accessibility features help anything? The motivation behind open document format is to preserve the ability to open these documents in the future.
And if accessibility is such a big issue, couldn't concerned users have both Open Office and Word installed, then have Open Office save the file as a word document, so said disabled person can use Word to view it.