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Microsoft wants to 'build Windows,' but how about bridges?
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| Build bridges, not toll roads.
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| Through closed standards, aggressive patent FUD, and proprietary Office file
| formats and SharePoint repository, Microsoft has effectively declared war on
| the very idea of "breaking down barriers that prevent people and ideas from
| connecting"...unless you happen to be using 100 percent of Microsoft's
| software to do the job.
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| One of the biggest trends to knock down barriers to true interoperability has
| been open source and the open standards it espouses, yet Microsoft has sought
| to impose a patent toll on open source. For those interested in connecting
| with Microsoft's technology, Microsoft is glad to oblige, but only on its
| terms, with Microsoft firmly in control. Open source, however, believes in a
| very different kind of interoperability.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10023243-16.html
Recent:
Vista SP1 won't install on dual-boot systems: Microsoft
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| If you’re dualbooting Windows Vista Enterprise or Ultimate alongside a Linux
| distro, and have installed the Linux bootloader into the MBR, then you’re
| guaranteed to run into problems when installing Vista Service Pack 1,
| Microsoft has admitted.
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http://apcmag.com/vista_sp1_wont_install_on_dualboot_systems_microsoft.htm
Related:
Geek in Paradise - Vista Upgrade
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| As the HP Advisor disc was in the process of finishing, the machine
| froze solid. After giving it 5 minutes of no disk activity, I reset
| the machine to be greeted by a lovely blinking cursor. I put the
| Vista disc in and booted into a repair installation, where I ran the
| Repair tool. My hunch was proved correct when it returned a corrupted
| MBR, which it had fixed. Thinking all was well, I rebooted to be
| greeted with a black screen (no blinking cursor). Well, there's
| something more going on so I rebooted into the repair tool and let
| it do it's thing. This time, it found a Corrupted Partition table
| which it then said it repaired. Awesome! Next reboot was greeted by
| the same black screen, so I figured the other partition was corrupt
| as well and let the repair tool run again and fix the partition
| table again. Reboot, same thing...
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http://geekinparadise.com/2007/04/05/vista-upgrade/
Vista scoots to new boot, but it's still kinda rooted
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| While Microsoft would like the world to believe that anyone running Windows
| has no need of any other operating system, that attitude doesn?t cut much
| mustard with many of its users.
|
| Why settle for one OS when your PC is easily capable of running two or
| more?
|
| [...]
|
| One of the more questionable tactics that Microsoft has implemented in
| Vista is to automatically overwrite any existing MBR during the
| installation process without asking if you mind or giving you an option
| to back up.
|
| Microsoft says that the Windows installation system can't intelligently
| interrogate an existing non-MS MBR, although such features are quite
| common in the install routine for other OSes.
|
| It also argues that an "official" Vista MBR is required for security
| features -- such as measured boot, which works with Trusted Platform
| Module (TPM)-enabled chips to check that the OS hasn't been hacked or
| altered each time it boots -- to work correctly.
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http://www.apcstart.com/site/akidman/2006/09/1656/vista-scoots-to-new-boot-but-its-still-kinda-rooted
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