OT: Redmond

[Bob Elzer]

And lets not forget about DRM and the logs that Vista/Win7 will be keeping.
 
I can't wait for DRM, it's mind boggling trying to make decisions of what I
want to watch or listen to, DRM takes those hard decisions out of my hands
and tells me I shouldn't be watching or listening to, this will make my life
so much easier.
 
And if one of those nasty unallowed files does sneak through, and I forget
about it, win 7s hidden log files will make sure no one else does.
 
It just make life so much easier  :-)
 
 

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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Joe
Fleming
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 12:07 PM
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Subject: Re: OT: Redmond


I don't know that they are specifically targeting that market. I mean, most
of the netbooks run vista already. Run over the Fry's if you don't believe
me..... all of their netbooks on display are running vista. It was enough to
make me not want to buy any of them, but I digress. I've read the m$ has
claimed that the reason most of them can't is because of the lack of storage
space, a problem that 7 clearly doesn't solve.

As for the storage space, my Ubuntu install is using about 10GB right now.
Of course, that's with an office suite, a webserver, a few websites, my
email, a bunch of pictures and documents accumulated over the 2 years it's
been installed (over 3GB in my home directory right now)...... that's kind
of the same, right? I mean, kinda, right?

For the life of me I can't understand how the hell they use up so much space
for JUST the operating system! As an aside, I read that IE8 uses more memory
that the whole of XP too. Crazy.

-Joe

keith smith wrote: 


So can we speculate that M$ is making Vista/win7 less resource intensive so
it can compete in the netbook environment.

I understand it takes up about 10 Gigs of space.  

Would be nice to have an O/S that requires less and is more efficient.
Maybe we can recycle some old hardware :)


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Keith Smith




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Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 9:59 AM