Symantec, Windows users beset by Vista SP1 flaws

ZDNet ^ | 03/24/08 | Tom Espiner

[Knitebane]

Ridiculous, of course...

Yes. It is ridiculous that Microsoft can give it's source code to the Communist Chinese while at the same time deny it to the American businesses that use it.

the free software movement you support allows the Chinese government to not only view the source code of Linux, but to copy it, modify it, even rename and resale it, just as they do with "Red Hat" Linux which is built in North Carolina but renamed and resold as "Red Flag" in China with all proceeds going to the Chinese government.

Yep. And so can IBM, Wal-Mart, Sun, and any other American company. Too bad the same can't be said about Microsoft.

But rather than speak out against that absurdity, you rail against successful US corporations instead.

Of course I speak out against successful US companies when they lie, cheat and steal. Why don't you?

[MichiganMan]

GE is the resident tech troll.

Wow. You weren't kidding. Just read through his, uh, "thoughts" on the issue. He obviously has a lot of emotional investment in open source Linux being a Bad Thing (tm).

"Cheap foreign knock off" (Chuckle) Talk about trying too hard.

[Knitebane]

I'm no troll, blah, blah, blah, Richard Stallman lied, Windows died! blah, blah, I hate people that ships our stuff overseas except for Microsoft blah, blah, blah I love US companies except for anyone that competes with Microsoft like RedHat blah, blah, blah Buy Windows Vista Today!

You're a troll.

[Golden Eagle]

Not emotional at all, I'm a rational conservative who deals with facts.

[MichiganMan]

Wait a minute. You make decisions about what technology products you use based on the percentages of political candidates that use the product???

I say again. Wow.

[higgmeister]

Totally agree about Spybot and AdAware but I put CA on my wife's laptop and it drove her crazy. If it had been on my machine, I could have tweaked it and enjoyed it.

CA is so feature packed that a person's computer literacy quotient needs to be high enough to understand how to add URL's to exception lists, read threats and errors and know how to respond, or poke holes in the firewall when needed.

[Golden Eagle]

I use the best American products that support capitalist and conservative ideals. Therefore free foreign clones given away for free and standardized and mandated in communist countries is not something I’m particularly interested in. Just another rational conservative opinion.

[higgmeister]

I totally understand. It is a matter of the difference between those that wish to be productive in life versus those that wish to play with something that's cool or rad.

It has to do with the fact that some embrace corporate structure and entrepreneurial enterprise and others distrust big business and abhor the profit motive. It is really sad that this is even a discussion on a Conservative website.

It's the All your code are belong to us mentality. They think Microsoft set them up the bomb.

[Golden Eagle]

It has to do with the fact that some embrace corporate structure and entrepreneurial enterprise and others distrust big business and abhor the profit motive.

Exactly, they'll attack successful businessmen and trumpet free software put out by green party radicals instead. They're entitled to that opinion, but shouldn't be suprised and resort to name calling when others don't agree.

[higgmeister]

It was called OS/2

You needed an EE PhD to even install it.

There was once a dual boot OS/2 platform at work that surely now resides in Purgatory.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

“Vista continues to prove that crap designed by committee and coded by the lowest bidder is still crap”

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Thinking of your description, I’m unable to picture exactly how, this process differs from the lowest-bidder (as in free) construction of a Linux “tarball”?

[null and void]

Microsoft had not explained why it had released SP1 in the knowledge that it could break third-party drivers

If I may?

HOW DARE YOU USE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE!

[null and void]

Worked fine for me, done in an hour and twenty minutes.

I gotta give you credit. No matter what problem normal MS users have, you ALWAYS manage to avoid it.

[null and void]

Vista continues to prove that crap designed by committee and coded by the lowest bidder is still crap

That is missing the part about paying based on number of lines of code.

[higgmeister]

I've had my HP/Vista machine for a year now and it has never crashed. My only complaint is that MS Office Word 2007 was revamped to resemble a MAC. It was obviously done for security concerns. I still remember the old WordPerfect text editor so the culture shock wasn't that bad. My SiL, the academician Inst. Tech Director, got a chuckle out of that MS capitulation to Apple.

[LadyPilgrim]

Don’t be afraid. I removed it from my XP, when I still had 21 months left on my contract. Then I installed Avast, free for home use.

I got a new HP with Vista and it came with 90 days of Symantac. A month before my resign date I uninstalled it and went to Avast on it. I AM SO HAPPY!!!

Symantac so loaded my new computer that it seemed sluggish. I unloaded it and now it runs smooth as silk. And fast too!

http://www.avast.com/eng/home-registration.php

It runs in real time and I’m pleased as punch!

[null and void]

It’s so sad when even you are reduced to attacking people when you can’t attack their products because the products work.

[null and void]

I see. No Apples in your world?

Did you miss the memo that Rush uses Macs?

[Golden Eagle]

I’ve always supported Apple, see post 67 of this very thread. Great machines, I used to sell them back in the 80’s. Let’s hope they don’t go out of business due to cheap foreign clones.

[null and void]

My only complaint is that MS Office Word 2007 was revamped to resemble a MAC.

I wish! What on earth were they thinking when they pulled the groupings for the menus out of their nether regions?????