__/ [ High Plains Thumper ] on Friday 28 July 2006 19:59 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Microsoft: PCs need a major design makeover
>>
>> Company's designers want hardware to have 'Vista sensibility'
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>> | Doesn't sound much like Microsoft, does it? But it is. BusinessWeek
>> | has learned that a team of 20 in-house designers has been working
>> | quietly for the past 18 months on an elegant new look for PCs that will
>> | run Microsoft's next operating system, Windows Vista. It's a major
>> | departure for the company, which historically has left design to the
>> | likes of Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Gateway. Persuading the hardware
>> | guys to embrace the toolkit won't be easy. They're already working
>> | overtime to build better-looking gear on their own.
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>> http://tinyurl.com/kkam5 (msn.com)
>
> Link is a 6 cookie site.
I always have NoScript running. Speaking of MSN, cookies are notorious.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000047.html
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| ...One day, Expedia could start offering higher fares to customers who
| have more than a million dollars in their Investor stock portfolio.
| There's not really anything technically impossible about this, and
| it's probably legal, too...
|
| ...The scary thing is that if you use Internet Explorer, Microsoft
| controls your web browser...
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It's all about cross-site cookie swapping and redirections.
> Sounds it could provide vendor lock-in, not only
> in software but hardware.
Yes. A true sabotage to any other O/S (Linux being the only option) that can
reside on the same hardware. It should be considered a black area.
Best wishes,
Roy
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roy pts/9 Tue Aug 1 09:02 - 09:06 (00:04)
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