Re: Bad sectors... how bad?

Pdigmking writes:

> I paid $35.00 for a photo managing program once.

So you paid at least ten times more for the photo program than MS asks
for its operating system. If you can buy an entire OS for $89, then
logically a simple photo-managing program should cost about $3.

> Again with the perfection stuff. No one said anything about wanting a
> perfect OS, just a reaonably priced one that can be used safely by most
> people.

Windows XP meets these criteria.

> Being able to put an OS that you've already paid for on your machine
> without having to go a bunch of rigamarole.

Buy the full product instead of buying endless upgrades.

> As far as security is concerned, MS could have doen
> something simple like.. oh I don't know.. put a fire wall in the program.

They have ... although the best firewall is a physically separate box.

> Win 98 literally eates itself. I had to wipe it three times and re-load
> it.

Windows 98 is obsolete. It was obsolete years ago. Worse yet, it was
a member of the Windows 95 family, which was all very poorly written
(an improvement over Windows 3.x, but vastly inferior to Windows NT).

> European and US courts have not found home centers, auto parts stores, or
> food stores in violation of anti trust laws, they have found MS guilty.

And the special version of Windows that the European courts required
MS to produce--one without Windows Media Player--hasn't sold at all.
People are still buying the full version. Stores don't even stock the
special version, even though the whole argument of the courts was that
consumers needed this special version so that they could "choose" a
different media player.

> That's just a fact dude. In a truly competitive market place MS would
> never be able to charge $200.00 for this OS.

It doesn't even charge that now. An OEM copy of XP is around $89 in
most markets.

> Besides, they practically give it away to large manufacterers.

So nobody is really paying $200 for it. And you can get OEM prices,
too, if you are building your own machine.

> XP hinders piracy? Crazy man.

The activation feature supposedly hinders piracy.

> And again, yeah, I blame the product when I
> pay suggested retail price of $99.00 and the minute I take it out of the
> box I have to spend hours downloading patches and updates to make it work
> the way it's supposed to in the first place.

I installed XP Pro SP2 from a CD in a few minutes. I didn't need
patches or updates to make it work.

You really just want something for nothing. You're doomed to be
disappointed.

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