I’ve haven’t watched that much television lately, as I have had other things to do, and so I had to look at YouTube to see the commercial with Lauren, the girl who had to have a laptop, but could only spend $1000. Well, I take issue with the idea that most everyone needs a laptop, and also at issue is the need for a 17″ screen. Is Lauren wearing contacts? Does she suffer from some other eye malady? (Her web page doesn’t seem to speak about it – she is an actress, you know. Knocks the wind right out of the random choice-person-on-the-street characterizations, doesn’t it?) If not, she should be fine with a 13″ Mac.
But that is just another in the long line of things that Microsoft distorts the truth about. Nothing new there. Time to move on.
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With all the hubbub about the Conficker-C attack tomorrow, you’d think that Henny Penny had been let loose, and the evidence of the falling sky was in hand.
If Microsoft wants to make a really big splash, and once and for all show that its choices for Windows 7 were the right ones, it should expose a few hundred machines to some malware infections, and then show, through the use of disinterested third party observers, that Windows 7 is impervious.
Yes, I think that would do it. Will Microsoft do it? No way. Imagine the embarrassment when the selected machines show up infected.
Yet Microsoft wants the average user to believe that each one of the Patch Tuesday Rituals puts its products one step closer to impregnability. It simply is not true. It never will be.
The simple truth is that if there was an impregnable operating system, no one would use it, as it would be more of a pain in the butt than Vista or Windows 7. It would stay on shelves in the store.
Besides that, we haven’t been shown that Microsoft could execute that decision anyway. It takes a great deal of effort to anticipate every possible problem that might happen.
It would be amazing to see a bare Windows 7 unaffected by Conficker-C though.
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