On 2007-01-10, [H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> posted something concerning:
> Sinister Midget wrote:
> > On 2007-01-09, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted
> > something concerning:
>
> >> Will bad backups doom Windows Home Server?
> >>
> >> ,----[ Quote ]
> >> | Microsoft just announced it's working on Windows Home Server,
> >> | which among other features, will automatically back up files on
> >> | all PCs in the home. But if the product uses the same kind of
> >> | brain-dead backup built into Windows Vista, this is a product
> >> | that will be dead on arrival. The backup tool built into Windows
> >> | Vista may be the worst utility every packed into an operating
> >> | system. It doesn't allow you to back up individual files, folders
> >> | or even file types. Instead, you have to back up every single
> >> | file and folder of broad generic types. For example, if you want
> >> | to back up a single picture, you have to back up every single
> >> | graphic of every graphic file type on your entire PC, including
> >> | all the graphics that Vista itself uses. This means you can be
> >> | forced to back up hundreds of gigabytes of files if you only want
> >> | to back up a few family photos.
> >> `----
> >>
> >> http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/4303
>
> > How can this be?? There's *video* that shows how wonderful it is!
> > You can't fool cameras. Right? Or Windolts?
>
> But, but, but, what if he didn't watch the video?
>
> How can we brainwash him with subliminal messages, if he doesn't watch
> it?
>
> Quick, we must send him that video now. Every problem will be solved,
> if only he s e e s t h a t v i d e ooooooooooooooo!!!!
>
> >> Time to grin, Peter.
> >>
> >> The village fool will run away.
> >
> > If they make the free backup work, few will need the new product. If
> > they screw up the free one, few will want the new one because they
> > won't trust it.
>
> Damn! And here was me thinking that Vista "fixed everything"!
That's everything /prior/ to Vista. This came after. Everything after
is safe enough for consumers to buy for several months or yearsh, but
will require a new Vista in the future to make it safe once it becomes
unsafe.*
* Which, going by their track record, is about two years before they
release the new thing that is going to eventually need the new Vista.
--
A fool and his money are soon using Windows.
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