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What a Windows 7 BSOD Looks Like
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| It looks the same.
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http://i.gizmodo.com/5129919/our-first-windows-7-bsod
Ubuntu 8.10 OS giveaway
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| We have a copy of Ubuntu 8.10 to give away this week. Ok, not only this week
| and not only one copy. In fact, get as many as you want, tell your friends as
| well.
|
| * Powerful, modern, user-friendly desktop environment.
| * Out-of-the-box support for most available hardware and USB devices.
| * Home networking.
| * Home computer backup.
| * Secure, multi-user environment, no need to run anti-virus software.
| * Thousands of applications for any task, freely available, easily
| browsable and installed with just a few clicks: Complete office suites
| (word processing, spreadsheets, etc.), graphic design, multimedia, photo
| management, games, Internet, education, sciences, programming, and much
| more.
| * 100% DRM free, no restrictions, no license keys, no fees, no charges,
| no secret collecting and passing on of your data, no artificial limits on
| what you can do with your computer and your data, 100% respect for you,
| the user.
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http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6125
"Fat operating systems spend most of their energy supporting their own fat."
--Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab, rediff.com, Apr 2006
Days ago:
Microsoft and Artificial Scarcity
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| So either they're saying that they didn't expect Windows 7 beta to be popular
| and their infrastructure doesn't scale, or they've let this happen on purpose
| to generate a little buzz. In other words, in order to make Windows 7
| desirable, first you make it unobtainable....
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/01/microsoft-and-artificial-scarcity.html
Windows 7 Beta 1: Copy Cat or Innovation?
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| PR and the supposed ‘leak’
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| It should be clear to all of us that these versions floating around various
| torrent sites – and especially the beta 1 – are carefully planned by public
| relations. And it’s brilliant. Why?
|
| * Because they reach their target audience, people with tech skills who
| are still enthusiastic about Windows and are taking time to download,
| install and test the operating system. Most of them have blogs and will
| surely post something about it and creating hype for the next release.
| * Zero distribution costs via peer-to-peer networks; no responsibility
| for download speed or failures.
| * Press coverage on all the major blogs with little adverse consequences;
| even if the review is negative – the release is not official.
| * A large, no-consequences, zero logistics, no expense beta test; Judging
| by ThePirateBay seeder/leecher ratio and the time of upload, more than 30
| 000 tech savvy people are running Windows 7 beta 1 right now and probably
| submitting bugs, crash reports and hardware information.
| * Frameworks inside Windows 7 allow remote deactivation or ‘crippling’
| via de WGA scheme. Your copy of Windows 7 works because Microsoft lets
| you. And they know a new machine is online the minute Windows connects to
| the internet.
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http://tuxgeek.me/2009/01/windows-7-beta-1-copy-cat-or-innovation/
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