I haven't used Windows except for rare occasions for years. I use Debian Linux,
with Freedos in dosemu for occasionally messing around.
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From: Michael Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com
Subject: [Freedos-user] Vista thoughts...
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009, 4:28 PM
I have never used Vista. I
think the minimum hardware requirements are
too high for me. Worse than that, I don't even like
XP because it's
a pain to deal with activation and an even greater pain to
back it up.
I've never figured out how to back up Windows XP.
That said, I don't
use XP very often. It's annoying when programs like
TurboTax don't
work, and it's annoying when sites like nbc.com don't work,
but CentOS
fills my needs for the most part. Freedos opens up
even more software,
but there's the problem that getting a hold of commercial
dos software
legally is difficult where I haven't seen very many OSS
projects for
freedos.
People are saying I hope Windows 7 will be better.
Have any of these
people ever checked out http://badvista.fsf.org? If
activation isn't
annoying enough, try digital rights management that can be
hacked
so that you can't use your own media that you created
yourself.
I've heard that there are still driver issues in
Vista. The word
on what OEM software has become in Vista land disgusts
me. You should
always be allowed to back up your installation media as
many times as
you want in any operating environment you want to.
Windows Vista
raised the operating requirements for Windows, I suppose
you need
a dual core computer now. Am I the only one who
doesn't think this
is particularly appropriate? Is Windows 7 going to
magically bring
Vista to older computers? I doubt it. I doubt
that Microsoft is
going to give up on making it impossible to back up
installation
media and I doubt that Microsoft will give up on forcing
people
to activate their copy of Windows. Now is the time to
send a message
to Microsoft that the abuse must end and the only way to do
that is
to demand a refund when you get a computer with Windows
Vista or
Windows 7 installed. Microsoft has no business
denying people the
right to back up their installation media, it has no
business forcing
people to activate software that it will later cease to
support, it
has no business playing media cop severely impacting
performance.
Free operating systems are getting to the point where you
can get
along without the latest version of Windows. Thing
is, people have
to actively abandon Windows, a.k.a. demand a refund, before
Microsoft
will get the message that it's business practices are
unethical and
unacceptable. It is also necessary to boycott
software that requires
Windows because it is not written to be portable to other
OS's.
Microsoft Windows is a monopoly OS because people allow it
to be.
If the public in general would stop accepting programs that
need
Microsoft Windows, Microsoft could not maintain it's
monopoly.
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