Among a zillion reasons not to use Microsoft products, including its latest OS release Thursday with Vista, here are some more reasons. From a recent article on Red Herring, among the biggest goofs Microsoft has once again pulled off…
But some of the rejection of Vista is because it locks up customers, once again, into proprietary software that is expensive, Mr. Perens said. Vista is also trying lock up users with digital rights management, which will prevent the software from sharing video and music. “Unfortunately, this is very anti-customer technology,” Mr. Perens said.
Aside from its expensive price point ($200-$400) and out-of-the-box technical defects, there’s the philosophical side to this. Consumer democracy will do to Microsoft, the obviously dominant software behemoth, the same that it’s done to other dynasties in the past. Eventually more people will turn to Mac, Linux, or whatever future alternative is presented to the status-quo.
It’s technolution… the inevitable shift of preference, perspective, possibilities and priorities in the modern realms of computer usage.
an Argentine talk show host. America’s rather fond of candy-coating its news, so why not with a more interesting host? I bet ratings would skyrocket, grow larger, swell, surge… well, you get the idea.
Earlier this afternoon, I’m eating my steak grilled stufft burrito and flipping through the news. No more than 30 seconds of watching, I nearly puke my burrito all over the coffee table when Martha McCallum, reading for the viewers (because they’re blind and/or stupid, watching Fox News) a graphical analysis of some American opinion poll about Iran, says, and I’m not making this up: “61 percent of Americans feel they should not tell their enemas when they’ll be leaving.” She quickly corrected herself, and managed to keep a straight face. I however, had trouble swallowing my lunch I was laughing so hard.