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Title: More reasons not to move to Vista
Post by: Rik on Feb 05, 2007, 15:04:46
Check out the article here:

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html#unified

Especially the bit about unified drivers.
Title: Re: More reasons not to move to Vista
Post by: DorsetBoy on Feb 05, 2007, 15:50:27
Thats the article I posted before,the more you read of it the bigger the nightmare.

In a nutshell M$ believe they have the right to own and control everything remotely linked to computers.

NOW............if you think that is bad try reading this....."M$ = world domination"!!

M$ PATENT APPLICATION (http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220060282899%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060282899&RS=DN/20060282899)

You will probably feel sick after this one >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: More reasons not to move to Vista
Post by: Nerval on Feb 05, 2007, 15:58:23
YUK!!!

I don't think they'll stop at world domination.  They're even more power-crazy than Tony Bliar  :laugh:
Title: Re: More reasons not to move to Vista
Post by: Rik on Feb 05, 2007, 16:02:12
Quote from: DorsetBoy on Feb 05, 2007, 15:50:27
Thats the article I posted before,the more you read of it the bigger the nightmare.

Sorry, must have missed that. :( I'll go and stand in the corner and be sick there :(
Title: Re: More reasons not to move to Vista
Post by: Rik on Feb 05, 2007, 16:04:17
Quote from: Nerval on Feb 05, 2007, 15:58:23
They're even more power-crazy than Tony Bliar  :laugh:

Now that is worrying! Have you ever noticed that you don't see Bill Gates and George W together. They couldn't be one and the same could they?  ???
Title: Re: More reasons not to move to Vista
Post by: DorsetBoy on Feb 05, 2007, 16:16:11
Quote from: rikbean on Feb 05, 2007, 16:02:12
Sorry, must have missed that. :( I'll go and stand in the corner and be sick there :(

I'll let you off RiK ;D

This will make you feel much better,I laughed long and hard when I read THIS (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,249922,00.html)   Long live the Romanian President  ;D ;D I like his style!!
Title: Re: More reasons not to move to Vista
Post by: Rik on Feb 05, 2007, 16:19:20
LOL!

I would like to have been a fly on the wall of Bill gates' brain...
Title: Re: More reasons not to move to Vista
Post by: Nerval on Feb 05, 2007, 16:20:11
So that's why he's so set against piracy in vista.

Daft thing is he ought to know that the harder you make it to pirate stuff, the more determined it makes people.
Not that I've ever pirated anything, of course  :angel:
Title: Re: More reasons not to move to Vista
Post by: Rik on Feb 05, 2007, 16:27:12
It's really a war isn't it? Measure and counter-measure. MS will penalise the many for the few, and eventually, we'll be so unhappy that we will buy Macs or move to Unix. MS should remember what happened to Sony with their audio CD fiasco.
Title: Re: More reasons not to move to Vista
Post by: Inactive on Feb 05, 2007, 16:31:43
Quote from: rikbean on Feb 05, 2007, 16:27:12
MS should remember what happened to Sony with their audio CD fiasco.

Indeed, that finished my love affair with Sony.
Title: Re: More reasons not to move to Vista
Post by: DorsetBoy on Feb 05, 2007, 16:36:03
But they won't care..............if you read that patent application it means that IF ANYONE develops software that can be said to be an operating system
for a computer (or computer like device) then M$ automatically have the right to own it/claim patent on it.
Title: Re: More reasons not to move to Vista
Post by: Rik on Feb 05, 2007, 16:41:12
Which is hopefully why the patent will never be granted. Has anyone told Apple?