On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:10:27 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:44:53 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> __/ [ miroco ] on Tuesday 22 August 2006 18:15 \__
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>>> On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:39:41 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>> | 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.
If windows is going to be a full featured OS then it should include a good
bootloader and offer the option of being configured to boot any other OS's
that the user might have on the system.Anything less is uncivilised.
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