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[News] [Rival] Windows Vista Sucks CPU Cycles for Microsoft's Benefit

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Windows Vista Sucks CPU Cycles for Microsoft's Benefit
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:32:55 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
The Microsoft-DOJ Joint Status Report on Google's Complaint

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| One glaring issue is that you can't turn Microsoft's desktop search engine 
| off, even if you want to use Google instead.
| 
| My own Alice-in-Wonderland reaction is to ask, is Microsoft trying to 
| think up ways to annoy and harass customers? Or is it just a side effect 
| of other goals? Who in the world would want to use something like 
| that, a resource-depleting application you can't turn off?
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200706201321583

This was pointed out before. How come people cannot switch off the "phone home"
bit on their /own/ PC? That's right, because they only get a license to borrow
a copy of Windows. The PC is no longer under their own control.

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