Vista spyware may give filip to Linux and OS X

iTWire ^ | 08OCT06 | Stan Beer

[rawcatslyentist]

>"Are you really as dumb as you sound or are you doing that just for effect?"

Well maybe a bit of both.

What was the definition of insanity again?

Reboots on a clean reg, with minimal autostart options actually take very little time. Mine is up from power off, in about 60 seconds.

[Gorzaloon]

I still don't know what ME really was. A dressed down NT? A poorly updated 98?

A desperate repackaging of Windows 98, when there was no really new product to sell. It incorporated the improvements from 98SE and added ermine mudflaps and a GT Racing Stripe.

In short, vaporware.

I do think it may have had a forerunner of the RESTORE function, and if I had all afternoon to wait for the fossil "Byte Me" laptop to boot, I would look for you..hahaha.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

My corporate laptop requires closer to 5 mins to boot - If I save 9 x 5 mins on 9 successive reboots and crash on the 10th I'm still ahead of the game. "Instant boot" hybrid drives are coming - it's been a holy grail for the industry for a very long time - I'd welcome it that's for sure.

[hoosierham]

Yes,ME does have the system restore and it has saved me when a new update or software crashes the machine.

As a home user it has served well enough for FR,ebay,downloading reference books,etc.

By the way I also have an NT laptop I forgot the password for and still trying to remember so not to lose whatever is on it.

Have a ME laptop somewhere too.
And XP home and Pro,also some 95 and 98 for running a machine controller that doesn't need any complications.

[Doohickey]

Damn it, they should quit making ignition keys for cars too. I should be able to steal anything I want any time I want.

[CellPhoneSurfer]

My corporate laptop requires closer to 5 mins to boot - If I save 9 x 5 mins on 9 successive reboots and crash on the 10th I'm still ahead of the game. "Instant boot" hybrid drives are coming - it's been a holy grail for the industry for a very long time - I'd welcome it that's for sure.

Maybe you could convince your company to buy you one of these if boot times are such a big concern:

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