__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Wednesday 27 September 2006 08:08 \__
> begin oe_protect.scr
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Tuesday 26 September 2006 01:00 \__
>>
>>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Stephen Fairchild
>>> <somebody@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote
>>> on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:04:36 +0100
>>> <ZaqdnU5n36zuz4XYRVnyvQ@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 900 million US dollars will be spent promoting Vista.
>>>>
>>>> The new OS is the central theme of the new campaign. They
>>>> are promoting the monopoly.
>>>
>>> And what should they promote, Linux? Their main competitor? :-)
>>>
>>> I can't fault them solely for that; one hopes, of course, that
>>> the customer, being fed up with malware, spyware, adware, trojanware,
>>> mailware, spamware, pornware, and stupidityware, will switch.
>>>
>>> It won't stop the inflow of junk immediately, but it might
>>> quiet it down to a dull roar. ;-) In any event Microsoft
>>> has already confused itself -- in Win95, for instance, they
>>> proclaimed that Win95 was totally revolutionary and that
>>> DOS was no more. Andrew Schullman torched that notion,
>>> although he had no problem with Win95 sitting on top of
>>> DOS, just Microsoft's spin thereon that DOS was gone.
>>>
>>> (Assuming I'm reading him correctly.)
>>>
>>> And now Vista touts itself as the most secure Windows offering ever
>>> innovated. I'll believe it when I see it.
>>
>> Page title:
>>
>> Microsoft: Vista Most Secure OS Ever (BetaNews)
>>
>> http://www.techmeme.com/060615/p61
>>
>> We shall believe it when we see it indeed.
>
> Quite. Microsoft have said this every time; it's like a washing
> powder advert "best ever surf", "new improved persil." It doesn't
> actually mean anything at all.
Improved Persil... improved MSN Search... Improves Live Search... well, you
have got to promise something to get attention (testing the water), don't
you?
> <snip security problems descriptions, leaving links>
>>
>> http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3624861
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/02/symantec_windows_vista_security/
>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6097976.html
>>
http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/190700049;jsessionid=MWLALDT21M10GQSNDLPSKHSCJUNN2JVN
>> http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3389
>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6095119.html
FWIW: It may soon seem as though I have vanished, but I'm just leaving on a
train within a few hours. Will be back late tomorrow night or on early on
Friday. Will do a last round of [News] posts. Haven't slept for about 30
hours...
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