__/ [ [H]omer ] on Wednesday 25 April 2007 08:28 \__
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> Vista recovery disk with your PC sir? No can do...
>>
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>> | You're on your own, it seems, as neither Novatech nor Microsoft will
>> | issue recovery disks, even if you offer to cross their palm with silver.
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> This is getting ridiculous. First no networking or access to backups for
> Home Basic, now no recovery discs. Put aside my obvious biases,
> regardless of what I think of the Windows platform in general, or
> proprietary licensing ... Vista is a joke. No really, it is. Promise.
They should call it Lemon Edition.
Acer: Vista Home Basic is a lemon
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| Microsoft is effectively smuggling through a price hike for Windows
| Vista - by making the entry-level version so poor that no-one will
| want to use it. So says Jim Wong, senior veep at Acer, the world's
| number four PC maker, who told UK hack Jon Honeyball: "The new
| [Vista] experience you hear of, if you get Basic, you won't feel
| it at all. There's no [Aero] graphics, no Media Center, no
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| remote control."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/27/acer_slams_vista_home_basic/
Steer Clear of Windows Vista Basic
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| So beware, friends, of too-cheap Vista systems. They may be
| running Home Basic, and that means they may not be ready to
| fulfill anyone's 21st-century computing needs.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2094527,00.asp
Want Those Backed Up Files? You've Gotta Upgrade Vista.
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| Yes, the cheapo versions of Microsoft's new OS make backups of
| your files using the Previous Versions feature, but you aren't
| able to access them without upgrading to Vista Business,
| Enterprise, or Ultimate.
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http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/want-those-backed-up-files-youve-gotta-upgrade-vista-251509.php
What a waste of disk space, RAM, and CPU.
Vista Backups [Rant]
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| So here I am with Micorosoft's "Greatest New Operating System" and
| I'm using an old command prompt program "xxcopy" to do a better
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| backup than Vista can. I'm still wondering why Microsoft even made
| a Home Premium version because there is nothing Premium about it.
| It's missing many features that XP Pro has like FTP Server,Remote
| Desktop, a useful Backup program. I refuse to pay an extra $150
| to upgrade to Ultimate just on principle. That's what Microsoft
| wants, to lure you in by having you buy a lower version of Vista
| thinking it would at least have the same features as XP, only to
| find out you need the Ultimate version to have those same features.
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http://www.technogab.com/?p=85
Rootkits, Bootkits, Viruses & Windows VISTA
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| Microsoft thought about this and developed the Bitocker System but once
| again hell breaks loose, it's only available for high-end Vista
| Versions ( Ultimate and Enterprise), so probably the rest of us are
| left alone to face the attacks. What was Microsoft thinking when it
| cleared the idea that low price version would have security
| features disabled?
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http://tpmboys.blogspot.com/2007/03/rootkits-bootkits-viruses-vista.html
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~~ With kind regards
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