__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Wednesday 21 February 2007 15:43 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:17:02 +0000
> <1195800.Bd5iNL0UMz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> The Most Annoying Things About Windows Vista
>>
>> ,----[ Quote
>> | From screens that mysteriously black out to search that's limited by
>> | default, here are the things that really bug us about Microsoft's
>> | new operating system.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129126-page,1/article.html
>>
>> I'm surprised that PCMag has had the guts to tell readers the truth. Most
>> major publications are very obedient to (scared of) Microsoft.
>
> Interesting. I just posted
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070220/tc_pcworld/129126
> and the text is nearly identical.
>
> One wonders what PC World and Yahoo! are doing with each other's links.
>
> Good article, though. :-)
Yahoo don't publish their own article. They harvest/buy articles from AFP,
AP, PCWorld, Reuters, etc. Think of it as a gateway/portal. Not sure about
metajournalism... They also do PR items, which is where they make a lot of
money.
>> Noteworthy Web site:
>>
>> http://www.microsuck.com/
>
> Heh. Nice of them to mention Gentoo, so they can't be all
> bad. :-) (Apparently they've not gotten Ubuntu or variants
> in there yet though.)
Don't forget goodbye-microsoft, which is where one gets the Windows installer
of Debian GNU/Linux.
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