[Beowulf] Sidebar: Vista Rant

[Peter St. John]

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.
Peter


On 7/24/07, andrew holway <andrew at moonet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Viruses
> Infections
> Spyware
> Trojans and
> Adware
>
> On 24/07/07, Roberto Ammendola <roberto.ammendola at roma2.infn.it> wrote:
> > Peter St. John wrote:
> > > RGB asks, "...On my nice new dual core 2 GB laptop, Vista Home runs
> > > like -- what?  What is a
> > > suitable metaphor for a system that can't even keep up with a moving
> > > mouse? ..."
> >
> > We found that best definition of Vista is: a virus.
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