[gaucho]

Seems like MS will never be happy unless they can fully control their users.

[TSgt]

Then some hacker will find a way around it or people will stop buying Microsoft's software. I guess I just bought my last copy of Windows...

[The Duke]

I'm looking forward to the day I can turn off every tube in the house and once again work on my tennis serve. To hell with Microsoft and those who would control my life to such an extent!

[rivercat]

Gee... Then the PCs will be like Apple products!

[DManA]

This is just wacky. The majority of PCs in use aren't connected to the internet. Why would MSFT sell a product most users couldn't use?

Before you can start an application or open a document, it checks wether it thinks you are allowed to or not. No, that's no joke. It really does. Via the Internet, Palladium keeps an up-to-date list of software (the blacklist), you can't start.

[Bush2000]

Seems like MS will never be happy unless they can fully control their users.

Seems like Mac users will never be happy unless they can bash other operating systems...

[Quix]

I don't believe BG is the AC,

But he sure seems to have learned at the same school and support the same brand and degree of tyrany.

[philetus]

My W2k pro will last me the rest of my life.

You couldn't pay me to go to XP.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

All of the anti-TCPA information on the internet is single-sourced to a single man, a communist Cambridge professor who teaches computer security. His TCPA-FAQ has been completely and utterly trashed and debunked by engineers working on the TCPA project.

Ross Anderson (IP communist)

If you're technically inclined and can read specifications check out the offical TCPA-FAQ for yourself.

[Hootch]

This is such crap.

Mac is good PC is evil!!

Everytime I turn around, mac people are giving Steve jobs credit for inventing something he didn't invent.

Steve Jobs is credited by most mac users with creating the GUI. A widely known fact is that Xerox created the GUI.

Now listen to Mac people... Oh ITunes (Macs own digital music personal recorder) is now the latest thing that Mac has and is given credit for creating. It has been around for 5 years at least. RIO was one of the earlier products.

I am not a Mac basher. I have both a Mac and a PC and there are different things that each does better than the other. The problem is, those gaps are narrowing and at this point PC's are a cheaper solution and have much more software available for them. The products that Apple makes(Airport, Itunes Player, etc either only work with Macs or at a minimum require a Mac to setup(in the case of the airport, a great wireless access point but unfortuantely require a mac to configure.).

If Mac could get their head's out of the sand long enough to acknowledge that there is a large market that would buy some of their proucts if they would make them compatible, they might do better than they are(and yes, I know they are doing better).

[Cold Heat]

As long as the dang thing works!

[org.whodat]

Stuck in the NINITIES, 20 years ago people had eight-track tape players. Ten or twenty years from now, the computer will move way beyond the mac and MS. If not a bunch of computer geeks better find a new profession.

[Ouachita]

[hoosierskypilot]

MS will never be happy unless they can fully control their users

No kidding! How long before Gates signs with the AMA to simply imbed the chip in our brain?

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

I just bought an iMAC. I'm ready to commit suicide. There are SO MANY problems with the operating system, I don't know where to start. I'd give anything to have my Windows PC operational again.

Please do yourself a big favor and don't buy an iMAC with OS X. If you're used to a PC, you won't be able to make the transition. It's just too radical. It's a nightmare. I'm totally stressed out.

Want a list of the problems? Here are just a few:

You can't SEE anything. The print on the toolbars is microscopic. You can't change the size of the text on the toolbars. You're stuck with what's there. You can't enlarge the scrollbars.

There's also no inner stuff like on Windows. No seeing the C drive and all of its contents. Virtually everything on the computer is hidden. Inaccessible.

You can't delete anything. If you make a mistake when you first sign on as a user, then try to delete it, forget it. Your deleted folder stays there forever.

The stupid "dock". It pops up when you least expect it. If you have it hidden, it will still pop up unexpectedly if you accidently move the cursor over its hiding place. And you can't open Internet Explorer from the toolbar. You have to go to the dock.

You can't delete your cookies in a batch. You have to delete them manually one-by-one. I'm serious. What a pain.

The mouse it comes with doesn't have a right side or a left side; it's all one piece. So you can't right-click anything. This means you can't save images, or copy text, or do anything.

You can't keep the screen full-size. It cuts off an 1/8 of an inch on the right side, and on the bottom. You can resize it, but it will always revert back.

And again, everything is tiny tiny tiny. Microscopic.

The computer is just a big expensive dud. It does nothing that I'm used to. I'm already thinking about selling it, and I've only had it up a day or two.

Oh, and I forgot to mention the LOUD GONG that starts the log-in. No way of getting rid of that sound. Someone on the apple website asked about that, too, and there was no solution.

And, if you want to change fonts (the appearance of a page), it will take you a very long time because the box closes out after each test. You have to keep going up to the toolbar to reopen the box again.

There are many more problems. These are just a few.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Everyone calm down, Microsoft and Intel are experiencing the same type of arrogance that lead to the downfall of IBM.

I suggest if any of you have stocks in these two companies, you should think about cashing out because the consumers are not as stupid as Microsoft and Intel thinks they are.

[shezza]

Bump!

[Richard Kimball]

Bump for later

[Xenalyte]

Whatcha think about this?

[DaGman]

And, the DOJ settled the anti-trust case. Microsoft can do whatever it wants now at anyone's expense.

[Jhoffa_]

This means unlicensed operating systems such as Linx can no longer even be installed on a TCPA-compliant system.

No way, that would be an illegal monopoly..

Never happen.