__/ [ Richard Rasker ] on Friday 06 April 2007 19:01 \__
>
> Well, well, here's a nasty little thing I hadn't heard of before: when
> burning a data CD or DVD in Vista, the software always defaults to using
> a format called "Live File System" - and there's no way to change this
> default behaviour. And, of course, this Wonderful New Windows Standard is
> only compatible with Vista; yes, Microsoft alleges that it can be used
> with XP too, but so far, no-one seems to have succeeded in doing so.
>
> The idea behind this, of course, is that the brainless idiots who chose
> to use Vista will end up with heaps of CD's and DVD's that can't be read
> on any other OS. Wanna see the pictures of the baby auntie Melinda from
> halfway across the continent sent you on a CD? Gotta have Vista, otherwise
> you're screwed. Want to be able to retrieve back-up data because Vista
> crapped out? Not without Vista you don't.
>
> But what /is/ this Live File System, and why would you want to use it?
> Well, apparently it makes a CD/DVD burner behave like a normal HD folder,
> and any files dragged to the burner device are burned to CD/DVD
> immediately.
> To the user, this has no advantage whatsoever - even worse: carelessly
> dragging files to this burning application without a chance to reverse or
> even review the selection will no doubt lead to a significant amount of
> extra waste in CD's and DVD's containing unwanted files.
>
>
> So, what we have here, is yet another attempt by those greedy bastards
> from Redmond to abuse their monopoly power to surreptitiously lock people
> into their crapware.
>
>
> Richard Rasker
Ballmer: "We ARE the standard"
"MS: For example, we should take the lead in establishing a common approach
to UI and to interoperability (of which OLE is only a part). Our efforts
to date are focussed too much on our own apps, and only incidentally on
the rest of the industry. We want to own these standards, so we should
not participate in standards groups. Rather, we should call 'to me' to
the industry and set a standard that works now and is for everyone's
benefit. We are large enough that this can work.
http://www.os2site.com/sw/info/comes/px09509.zip
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