Boycott Vista

[x1a4]

http://badvista.fsf.org/

“Vista is an upsell masquerading as an upgrade. It is an overall
regression when you look at the most important aspect of owning and
using a computer: your control over what it does. Obviously MS Windows
is already proprietary and very restrictive, and *well worth rejecting*.
But the new *'features' in Vista are a Trojan Horse* to smuggle in even
more restrictions. We'll be focusing attention on detailing how they
work, how to resist them, and why people should careâ€,


http://www.fsf.org/news/badvista-launch

 

[James Crosswell]

http://badvista.fsf.org/

Interesting stuff... burrowing down a little gives the following link
which is "What's wrong with Vista?"
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

So far I've been pretty impressed with all the innovation that's gone
into the .NET 3.0 framework, IIS 7 and WPF etc. It's a pity that stuff
like that mentioned above had to go into the same OS that rolled out
these other great features...

Best Regards,

James Crosswell
Microforge.net LLC
http://www.microforge.net