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Tesselator
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Apr 15, 2008 , 09:46 PM
 
Originally Posted by Cold Warrior View Post
Let's cut out the personal insults and stay on what's left of the topic.
Yep, time to bail on this one... I stand by what I said are the reasons why I don't
like Microsoft products:

For me it's almost all political.

1st, the little c***sucker stole CMP modified the source 21% so the courts couldn't
nab him and sold the thing to IBM as "MicroSoft DOS". He did basically the same
thing with BASIC.

2nd, he had a huge influence on redefining the business model for OS and Software
venders industry wide. (in a bad way)

3rd, the f*** used industrial espionage, bribes, and what any fair court would rule
as unfair business practices to establish and maintain a strong-arm monopoly.

4th, the puss-bucket started getting involved in eugenics in a very big way. How
many billions (with a "B") has he given for "free abortions" of black women in Africa
and towards the propaganda campaigns there to get them to accept and even want
them? 8 last I checked in 2006. More by now I'm sure. This is all together just too
reminiscent of MS's mother company IBM, who involvement themselves in "organizing"
the extermination of human beings in Germany just a generation or two ago.

5th, their products are quite uninspired and even plagiaristic still even today. The
distinguishing features that remain are all detriments to end users. Basing a myriad
of complex settings and control vectors on a common registry file might have been
OK in 1985 under NT4 or 3.66 but even then it was limiting and problematic. Today
it's just lame and ridiculous.

6th, The help and documentation are so poor and misguided that alone is reason
enough to boycott the OS even if all these other things mentioned here weren't a
factor in my reasoning.
...and with that I'm out.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it!"
- Thomas Paine
     
voodoo
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Apr 16, 2008 , 03:14 AM
 
Originally Posted by Tesselator View Post
Yep, time to bail on this one... I stand by what I said are the reasons why I don't
like Microsoft products:



...and with that I'm out.
Embrace and extend. All the cool kids are doing it

I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
     
seanc
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Apr 16, 2008 , 12:16 PM
 
Originally Posted by starman View Post
I do. You do know that turning it off pretty much sets up the machine for attacks, right?
Well, then you have the same security level as XP really.

It's not *really* intended to be a security feature, it's there to drive you nuts so you'll stop running as an Administrator and rather a Limited user.
Why the default user account is still set up as an Administrator, I do not know. Sounds like it would be better to have the main users set up as 'normal' users and use the Administrator account for being an Administrator. The problem with this though, is that's just annoying as UAC, I tried it when I was still using XP, "Please enter the username and password of an Administrator to..." use the command prompt.
Macbook C2D 2Ghz/2GB RAM/250GB HDD/10.5.2 - In Repair...
     
Jawbone54
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Apr 16, 2008 , 12:23 PM
 
Originally Posted by Tesselator View Post
...and with that I'm out.
I'll bet that you see this post.
So are you REALLY out?
     
design219
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Apr 16, 2008 , 12:25 PM
 
I'm ready to pop a second bag of popcorn.
Stay Home Sunday ... Save 10%!
     
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