Re: Love and Hate

Richard wrote:
>> Micro$oft is going to make it useless when it releases the
>> 'revolutionary new OS'
>
> Certainly there is usually a usually a need to buy a new box for the
> next version of Windows, but I quite often find that Windows users
> complain about how slow their machines are even if they bought a new
> one recently. Running Adaware or similar shows why this is: the
> machines get bogged down with spyware, viruses and zombies just by
> being on the Internet with IE and/or using Outlook Express.

Same with AIDS: The incidence is very low among the celibate.

>
> The machines grind to a halt and so they buy a new machine with the
> latest 3.x MHz CPU and this is now really zippy so they are happy ...
> for a few months until the accumulation of collected junkware brings
> it to its knees once again.
>
> Microsoft don't want this fixed, nor do Dell or Gateway, they get to
> sell lots more and profit.

Not so. Micros~1 would like this fixed inasmuch as Micros~1 doesn't sell
speed - it sells features.


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