____/ [H]omer on Thursday 25 October 2007 00:09 : \____
> Is Vista A Disaster? (need you ask?)
>
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> | Vista is "goatware", it eats all your resources. I guess we should
> | be used to new versions of Windows being greedy. It’s part of
> | Microsoft’s business plan for Windows to make old PCs obsolescent
> | as quickly as possible. But Vista is unusually greedy. Remember
> | that Vista was 7 years a-cooking, rather than the usual 3 years, so
> | maybe it packs in a double dose of resource hunger.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | There are a number of factors at work in respect of Linux.
> |
> | The primary one is that, at last, with Ubuntu, there’s a Linux
> | distribution that is truly user friendly. There’s also the fact
> | that the $100 PC is now in play (albeit for $200) and this will
> | inevitably grow the market for Linux PCs. Finally, there’s a
> | low-end PC market which cares not to pay for Windows. PCs sold
> | through Wal Mart in the US and Tesco in the UK are Linux, with a
> | whole swathe of open source applications loaded.
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> http://havemacwillblog.com/2007/10/23/is-vista-a-disaster/
>
> "Goatware" ... haha!
Better than a camel. Where have we seen /that/ before?
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