Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:44:53 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
> > __/ [ miroco ] on Tuesday 22 August 2006 18:15 \__
> >
> >> On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:39:41 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> >>
> >>> | Vista will continue to
> >>> | wipe your master boot record on install. And so begins "The case
> >>> | against installing Windows Vista (volume 658, 943)".
> >>
> >> Why are they such assholes?
> >
> > It's the mantra. They will make it look like it's an innocent mistake. Just
> > as they have been doing with Web standards for so many years.
>
> It's not an innocent mistake, it's very deliberate. And there's a damn
> good reason for it too. Microsoft has no responsibility to maintain the
> proper boot sector for other OS's. Period.
>
> > Erasing the MBR is the same as erasing a file (purging a pointer to it), The
> > average computer user will never be able to recover it.
>
> Yet you suppose they'll be able to decide to keep their old boot loader,
> and configure it to boot windows as well?
>
> Right.
Maybe it's time for Microsoft to be brought before the International
Criminal Court. Somebody needs to put Microsoft in its place...even if
it means prosecuting them fully.
You know what? I hope Microsoft gets involved in an Enron-type scandal,
with Steve Ballmer put in prison for life (only to die "under
mysterious circumstances")...of course Bill and Melinda Gates would get
off the hook because of their NWO - I mean UN - tax break - I mean the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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