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> From: Orchid XP v8 [mailto:voi### [at] devnull]
> >>>> make M$ customers happy, rather than M$ users...)
> >>> Why shouldn't they?  The customers are the ones who pay.
> >> We pay too.
> >
> > That would make us customers, wouldn't it?  Which means that they're
> > making changes to make us happy.
> 
> Yeah. I'm sure DRM will make a lot of users very happy. :-}

OK, in that specific case they were pretty much forced to by the MAFIAA.
I read a convincing argument that MS purposely sabotaged their own DRM
efforts in Vista so they could tell off the content companies and say,
"See?  It doesn't work.  Now stop being such dumba**es."

Unfortunately, I doubt that's what really happened - but it would have
been nice :)

> Depends on whether by "sup-par" you mean a machine that really isn't
up
> to much, or whether you actually mean "any PC that's more than 20
> seconds old". The former is acceptable. The latter isn't.

Well, *my* machine is certainly more than "20 seconds old."  I bought
mid-range parts for it more than a year ago, and today you can put
together a machine roughly twice as powerful for $500.

> Now if it really *was* faster, people would notice that. And they'd
> like
> it. Trouble is, they also notice when the reverse happens...

It also depends what they target.  AFAIK, the Windows developers
actually target a 30 second boot time.  If it boots much faster, then
they look for more things they can do during bootup.

> M$ has a long history of making changes that annoy the hell out of
> users. I don't hear many people complaining that, say, KDE 4 is way
> more
> annoying than KDE 3.

No, but I've heard a *lot* of people say that Linux (of any variety!) is
significantly more annoying that Windows!

> How about, say... Micro$oft Office?

Can't comment, mine is running perfectly here.

> Well let's just put it this way: I won't be rushing out to buy it
until
> it becomes *significantly* cheaper. ;-)

That will be after the next version is released...


...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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