<div>Well, if one were to accept my thesis that the principle design criterion of MS OS's (since about Win98) is market share (as oppsed to, developement environment, for unix; real-time processing, for OS9; fault-tolerance, for Tandem, etc) and if you define adware as willingly downloaded by the user with presumed limited grasp of negative, but legal, ramifications, then Vista is precisely Adware.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">andrew holway</b> <<a href="mailto:andrew@moonet.co.uk">andrew@moonet.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Viruses<br>Infections<br>Spyware<br>Trojans and<br>Adware<br><br>On 24/07/07, Roberto Ammendola <<a href="mailto:roberto.ammendola@roma2.infn.it">
roberto.ammendola@roma2.infn.it</a>> wrote:<br>> Peter St. John wrote:<br>> > RGB asks, "...On my nice new dual core 2 GB laptop, Vista Home runs<br>> > like -- what? What is a<br>> > suitable metaphor for a system that can't even keep up with a moving
<br>> > mouse? ..."<br>><br>> We found that best definition of Vista is: a virus.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Beowulf mailing list, <a href="mailto:Beowulf@beowulf.org">
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