Post by Walt DavidsonPost by YetiAnything's better than Internet Explorer.
I don't agree. Internet Explorer is the industry standard.
73 de G3NYY
Actually, no, it's not. Internet Explorer is very much non-standard. It
includes coding anomalies designed deliberately to be incompatible with
the published standards, so people who use Microsoft software to produce
and run their sites have to rely on people using IE for it to work properly.
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Post by Walt Davidson(1) by archiving Usenet postings without my permission
You post it on Usenet, therefore you made it Public Domain.
Post by Walt Davidson(2) By photographing my property and publishing the images on the
Internet ... again without my permission.
Which anyone can do, perfectly legally.
Post by Walt Davidson(3) By sharing their archived records, including everybody's Google
search histories, with the CIA and other sinister organisations.
73 de Wlat
Now, there you have a good point.
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Post by Walt DavidsonI really don't understand this anti-MS brigade. I struggle to recall a
serious problem with XP, Vista, (or the earlier "OSs") which were any worse
that the various options. Linux never really took off in the desktop / home
environment until it started to look like Windows..
You mean until it started to look like Mac OS, which in turn, looked
like something Xerox developed before Steve Jobs pinched the idea.
The problems with Windows and it's various flavours...
1) Microsoft's almost total market dominance, achieved through many
businesss tactics, just as many of them underhand and possibly illegal,
as there were legitimate ones.
2) Microsoft's forceful (and thereby illegal) installation of software
without the user's explicit approval - namely the "Windows Genuine
Advantage" tool, among others - which often incorrectly determines legit
installs of Windows XP/Vista to be pirate.
3) Microsoft's forced obsolescence program - forcing people to
constantly upgrade both software and PCs that may be perfectly suitable
for their intended role
4) Microsoft's woeful record on security - security holes are frequently
found in MS products, and take ages to be patched. Open Source
equivalents are patched in hours or days, not weeks or months. In one
case, a known virus managed to infect a large portion of Microsoft's own
computer system because they hadn't even installed the patch for the
security hole, even though they had known about it for months.
There's many, many more - but that'll do plenty fo now.
Long and short of it, I hate what Macs have become, and I have Linux -
but a lot of the programs I use can't be run on those, so I have no
option but to use Windows. I just don't use any other MS software.