[Microsoft] MS security patch EULA gives Billg admin privileges on your box

The USA Register ^ | 06/30/2002 | Thomas C Greene

[big'ol_freeper]

Buy a Mac!!!!

[eno_]

Aghhhh. Microsoft already winning friends with their new DRM initiatives. What morons!

[GulliverSwift]

Just don't use Microsoft products and you won't have to worry about this. Also, unless you Mac users stay away from IE and Office, you're still in the same boat.

Unix or MS-free Macs are the only way to go. (yes, i know os x is based on unix architecture)

[ibme]

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[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Buy a Mac.

Never.

[evolved_rage]

Better watch it Sam, my bet is that Steve Jobs put a special probe in that model.

[Ouachita]

Buy a Mac!!!!

My first 2 computers were Macs. 
I'd eat date Rosie O'Donnel before going back to a Mac.

[Astronaut]

I'm running UNIX in the form of Mac OS X on a G4 iMac. No Microsoft products anywhere on my hard drive. I even trashed IE in favor of the OmniWeb browser. I have no security holes, I'm not susceptible to Outlook-based viruses, and I dont have Gates snooping on the contents of my hard drive. My system is faster and more stable than a Pentium system running XP, plus the industrial design of the iMac and the aesthetics of OS X far outclass anything coming out of the Windoze world. The Macintosh is a vastly superior platform. Abandoning Windows is an excellent suggestion for almost all computer users.

[TechJunkYard]

Indexing..

[big'ol_freeper]

I do not think I could have said it any better myself.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

I switched from being a Mac user-(mostly due to teenagers in the house wanting programs,games and the common stores cater to non-Mac PC's-) and the windows most especially before XP are like dinosaurs.Macs are user friendly NO F1-12 crap It is a joke to even compare the graphics muchless the set up.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

...a special probe in that model.

Moooon Riverrrr!!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Abandoning Windows is an excellent suggestion for almost all computer users.

Until you get to the price. Something that almost all computer users have to deal with.

[Jhoffa_]

Moooon Riverrrr!!

A Fletchism?

"Hey, you usin the whole hand there doc?"

[College Repub]

Or the fact that if you are a guy using a mac, some people will assume you're a homo...

[Doug Loss]

Just to make sure you all hear from the other rabid zealot wing (after all, Windows and Macs aren't all there is, or the best there is by a long shot), what you really want to do is scrub whatever hardware you have and install Linux, God's own operating system!!!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

A Fletchism?

I had faith that the reference wouldn't be missed.

[eno_]

That depends on how much value the Palladium crap subtracts. Is it worth $100 extra on an $800 machine to buy a machine without spyware inside? $200? Is keeping your work private really important? $500? Palladium has the potential to change the Mac/PC value equation.