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Re: [News] [Rival] Windows Applications in an Ugly State

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Clogwog
<BWAHAHAHAAA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 wrote
on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:48:49 +0200
<g3gu2l$d2n$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> "The Ghost In The Machine" <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in 
> bericht news:fo9ri5-6pq.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote
>> on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:25:15 +0100
>> <9490176.S0pIxlGL3E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> ____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Thursday 19 June 2008 23:27 : \____
>>>
>>>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
>>>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>  wrote
>>>> on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:24:47 +0100
>>>> <1556439.UUNQSIjRla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>>
> <Snipped the usual Schestowitz drivel>
>
>> Heh....OK, how does one "entertain DRM"?  Is one supposed
>> to find a good restaurant, bake a sheet of cookies, or
>> simply set up a slide projector and show DRM one's last
>> vacation to Tahiti? ;-)
>>
>> (Or the nearest city park in lieu thereof?)
>>
>> But you're probably right; I suspect that many of the
>> problems with Vista is with existing applications running
>> into little roadblocks.  If the app is lucky one just gets
>> a UAC dialog that is annoying.  If not, the app stops dead.
>
> Not at all if you run the app with admin privileges

A disaster waiting to happen if someone gets cute.

> (ri. click) or put UAC 
> to "quiet mode".
> I just wonder: did you ever run Vista?

I'd just as soon not. :-P

>
>>
>> Yeah, compatibility with Vista!  (snort)
>
> http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.php/Windows_Vista_Software_Compatibility_List
> Windows Logo'd Products List:
> ( IE) http://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/Default.aspx
>
>> There's nothing
>> like Microsoft Windows -- and it's probably just as well.
>> Blecch.
>

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