__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Monday 29 January 2007 15:58 \__
> On Jan 29, 7:52 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> I am not sure this is true (see Jo Foley's blog), but have a look:
>
> True or not, it is a fact that Microsoft is relying on the automatic,
> forced installation of Vista in new computers to gradually force the
> world to switch over to Vista. The process will gather steam; at
> first there will be a few installations of Vista, however reluctant,
> as companies buy new equipment; then incompatibilities with XP
> software will force users who want to communicate with Vista owners to
> upgrade. The same will be forced on XP users, however satisfactory
> their hardware, when support for XP is dropped, although if you can
> stand the incompatibilies I just mentioned and you run behind a Linux
> firewall you should be able to keep running XP (or Windows 98 for that
> matter) for a long time.
>
> Imagine a computing world in which there was real competition in
> operating systems, or just one in which Microsoft had been broken into
> an OS division and an applications division. Anyone who thinks that
> wouldn't be better for the consumer is nuts.
...Or paid.
Have you heard about the new image format yet? Imagine being sent an HD file
from a Windows Vista user who innocently saved his photos in the default
format. The forced upgrade will make use of a viral sort of 'network
effect'. It's also Microsoft's way of cashing in over and over again for the
same piece of software (e.g. Office) that's not necessarily broken.
Comptibility and security (or lack thereof) can be powerful to a salesman
because they are breakage/expiry tools. Such malicious lockin schemes are
transcending the barriers and software and reach actuial data. Hollywood
loves the idea of DRM while Microsoft sympathesises and collaborates.
Take the control back from the vendor to the customer. Oh! And take control
of your machines, which is not only owned by the company that lends a licese
to use it, but also by a criminal.
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports. "Despite all that, the net is still working,
| which is pretty amazing. It's pretty resilient," he said.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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