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Windows Genuine Advantage: Microsoft's KILL SWITCH
konrad:
no kidding who didnt see this coming 50,000,000 light years away?
The question I am asking is in the new version of winodows coming out soon is if the new version wants to play the old game of not wanting to be backwords compatible with older software.
Older versions of Windows can't be turned on/off with a killswitch now because they don't have enough enbedded features for it especially true for Windows 95/98 so I think that allot of people will just not purchase the new version of Windows.
So my theory is that with the newish licenseing requirements and if its not backwords compatible then the new version of Windows would be like a line in the sand.
I have used Linux in the past and I can tell you that it is in no way ready to handle extra demand even if the door opened wide open for it.
Who here thinks they can teach there Mom how to use Linux?
I can tell you that I would have a hard time teaching my Mom to type in mount //cdrom//something//something everytime she wanted to load up her camera pictures.
Not to mention that the driver database is terrible and almost all of my hardware in perticular my Modem doesnt work.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: konrad ---no kidding who didnt see this coming 50,000,000 light years away?
The question I am asking is in the new version of winodows coming out soon is if the new version wants to play the old game of not wanting to be backwords compatible with older software.
Older versions of Windows can't be turned on/off with a killswitch now because they don't have enough enbedded features for it especially true for Windows 95/98 so I think that allot of people will just not purchase the new version of Windows.
So my theory is that with the newish licenseing requirements and if its not backwords compatible then the new version of Windows would be like a line in the sand.
I have used Linux in the past and I can tell you that it is in no way ready to handle extra demand even if the door opened wide open for it.
Who here thinks they can teach there Mom how to use Linux?
I can tell you that I would have a hard time teaching my Mom to type in mount //cdrom//something//something everytime she wanted to load up her camera pictures.
Not to mention that the driver database is terrible and almost all of my hardware in perticular my Modem doesnt work.
--- End quote ---
I wouldn't like to teach my mom Slackware, no.
My sister and other ppl in the house often use my computer, running Ubuntu 6.06, but all they do is look up the web so it's perfectly suitable.
I don't have a digital camera to test with, but I'm pretty sure that if I plugged a camera into my machine Ubuntu would automatically open gThumb or eye of gnome or whatever to manage the photos on it...
http://piratepenguin.is-a-geek.com/~declan/crap/camera.png
Jack2000:
let me see them try to pull this one off
on win98 :P
no weird Fs no weird users hit (one user)
no weird behind the scenes programs
good luck suckers !
serves y right for installing XP !
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---I wouldn't like to teach my mom Slackware, no.
My sister and other ppl in the house often use my computer, running Ubuntu 6.06, but all they do is look up the web so it's perfectly suitable.
I don't have a digital camera to test with, but I'm pretty sure that if I plugged a camera into my machine Ubuntu would automatically open gThumb or eye of gnome or whatever to manage the photos on it...
http://piratepenguin.is-a-geek.com/~declan/crap/camera.png
--- End quote ---
I'd have to agree about slackware ... and gentoo, and arch, and several others are kinda hard to fix up right yourself, much less teach your mom. But Ubuntu, definitely, and Mandriva, and Fedora, and MEPIS, and several others are really easy ...
konrad, which distro did you use ... was it slackware ... well then I'd agree, you can't teach your mom slackware (unless you both have superhuman patience)
Aloone_Jonez:
They're not easy if you need to install something like a non-standard driver though.
I might've seen this comming, there again I don't think it'll be long before it's hacked, perhaps Windows XP might even stop working when MS decide to no longer support it.
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