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(Unverified)Aug 7th 2009 12:30PM
"Molly = The Official Anti-Microsoft Troll"
that's right! :)
now, if you only read my post, then you'd know that all i'm saying is that an 'inplace upgrade' is bearing incredible risks, a great many things can and will go wrong. thus i will not endorse this method of installation.
i am indeed a great admirer of Bill Gates and Microsoft (and IBM indeed), without their efforts, computers would be still 'geek' material for a rather small community of enthusiasts.
yet i will not chime into this windows 7 hype, mostly generated by well paid IT journalists and kids, who have grown into a DRM plagued world, thinking this is some kind of normalcy and who are currently enjoying a free ride on some torrented Windows 7 release.
i have said time and time again, when people have lost respect for property (intellectually or otherwise) then there is something fundamentally wrong. something you certainly cannot correct with DRM or other user control mechanisms.
now if Microsoft has so little faith in their customers, why should customers in turn have faith in Microsoft Corp.? Microsoft has been wasting valuable resources for the development of "anti piracy technology" which turned out to be worth a damn, which added to even more security exploits, which earned them nothing but laughter and mistrust, yet they decided to continue on this path.
sure, folks, systems are so powerful these days, you don't mind if the odd cpu cycle is used to poll for drivers that may have been tampered with to tap into HD content ... if we check every few minutes whether Windows is still activated or if it has been replaced with a pirated copy ... if Windows is 'phoning home' (with or without your consent), do you?
well, I do mind! imho, Windows, by definition, is not an operating system anymore, it has evolved into a user control system. if that is what you want, well, go and get it, but don't tell me it is the best thing since sliced bread, i ain't gonna buy it.
(Unverified)Aug 8th 2009 7:15AM
"an 'inplace upgrade' is bearing incredible risks .."
agreed
"i am indeed a great admirer of Bill Gates and Microsoft (and IBM indeed), without their efforts .."
Laughable. MS maybe the most successful software company so far but I find it hard to believe the IT landscape would have not progressed without them.
"mostly generated by well paid IT journalists and kids .. "
you're in serious denial with that one
"when people have lost respect for property .. "
It's called the human condition
"now if Microsoft has so little faith in their customers .. "
MS would have not make the profits it has made without a licensing model. It may have been easy to crack in each iteration but that does not obviate the need of having it.
"if Windows is 'phoning home' (with or without your consent) .."
I hate when any software phones home without being instructed to do so or asking first. That's why I use third party firewall. Better to be proactive about it rather than crying about it.
"it has evolved into a user control system ..".
Windows is same as any other other proprietary OS in this regard.
(Unverified)Aug 14th 2009 3:11PM
microsoft for the loss... never as simple as it could be.