http://www.dellideastorm.com/article/show/61771
And yet Dell, with his gonads still firmly in Ballmer's grip, ignores
his customers. "C'mon Dell, give it up for me".
Dell's back-peddling does not go unnoticed by the mainstream media:
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| The customer is always right. Except, of course, when he's wrong.
|
| ...
|
| For example, more than 85,000 [ED: now 102,436] people took the
| trouble to register with IdeaStorm in order to tell Mr Dell that they
| wanted him to ship his computers with Linux pre-installed. Moreover,
| 55,000 [ED: now 68,100] revealed that they would like the free
| open-source office software suite, OpenOffice, pre-installed on their
| shiny new Dell machines.
|
| At this point, several things happened. The first was that senior
| personnel at Dell demanded keys to the darkened rooms that computer
| companies now maintain for executives suffering from panic attacks.
| These rooms are specially hardened to resist missives from Steve
| Ballmer, the combative CEO of Microsoft, who takes a dim view of
| open-source software.
|
| ...
|
| Getting rid of crapware, however, isn't going to be entirely
| straightforward - as Michael Dell explained at the recent Consumer
| Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The problem is that companies pay
| computer manufacturers to pre-install their craplets - and so Dell
| would lose revenue by shipping clean machines. In the discussion, one
| member of the audience said he would pay $60 to have a crap-free
| computer. 'Sold!' said Mr Dell, without missing a beat.
|
| So now we know the value of crap. You read it here first.
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,2025848,00.html
Related:
Vista Hacked, but is so crap, even the pirates don't want it:
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| by Jeffrey Henderson @ 04 Mar 2007 01:19 am
| I'm confused.
|
| Does Vista magically become a good system to run your computer just
| because you stole it?
|
| I wouldn't want it on my computer if they paid me.
|
| Ubuntu > Vista
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http://www.uploadcrap.com/?subaction=showcomments&id=1172962283&archive=&start_from=&ucat
But didn't Gates say this couldn't be done? Oooh Nooo! :
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| "Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single
| day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken
| over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows
| machine." - Bill Gates.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16934083/site/newsweek/page/2/
Every day, every day, pieces of eight, Polly wanna crack-her?
Just recently:
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| Microsoft is investigating two recently disclosed security
| vulnerabilities that affect Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Vista,
| the company said on Monday.
|
| The vulnerabilities aren't considered high-risk, yet they affect the
| latest releases of Microsoft's Web browser and operating system
| software. Microsoft has promoted the security of both IE7 and Windows
| Vista. The flaws could let attackers get their hands on sensitive
| user information, security experts have warned.
|
| The French Security Incident Response Team said in an alert that the
| IE vulnerability, which also affects IE6, could be exploited in
| phishing attacks, scams that try to trick people into giving up
| sensitive information such as credit card data and Social Security
| numbers. The problem exists because of an error in the way the
| browser handles certain "onunload" events, the security monitoring
| company said. Attackers could exploit the issue to spoof the browser
| address bar, FrSirt said.
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Vista Vulnerabilities, even before its flopped launch to the public:
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| Microsoft admits to Vista flaw
|
| By Graeme Wearden, ZDNet UK
| 28 December 2006 09:07 AM
|
| Microsoft is investigating a security vulnerability which affects
| Vista, its newly launched operating system.
|
| Mike Reavey, operations manager at Microsoftâs Security Response
| Centre, revealed last Friday that Vista is vulnerable to a flaw that
| allows a malicious hacker to escalate user privileges within several
| versions of Windows.
|
| Proof-of-concept code that exploits the code has been posted online,
| Reavey said in a blog posting, adding that Microsoft isn't yet aware
| of any malware that takes advantage of it.
|
| "Initial indications are that in order for the attack to be
| successful, the attacker must already have authenticated access to
| the target system," wrote Reavey.
|
| "While I know this is a vulnerability that impacts Windows Vista I
| still have every confidence that Windows Vista is our most secure
| platform to date. As always, we here at the MSRC encourage everyone
| to enable a firewall, apply all security updates and install
| anti-virus and anti-spyware software," he added.
|
| Vista is Microsoft's first operating system release in five years.
| The company had repeatedly emphasised that it is more secure than
| previous versions, having been extensively rewritten.
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Vista is secure ... once you install a third-party firewall, virus
checker, spyware tool ..... zzzzz.
And still, Dell persists with Vista.
So tell us Dell, what is the *real* value of CrapWare?
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K.
http://slated.org - Slated, Rated & Blogged
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| "Future archaeologists will be able to identify a 'Vista Upgrade
| Layer' when they go through our landfill sites" - Sian Berry, the
| Green Party.
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Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) on sky, running kernel 2.6.19-1.2288.fc5
02:44:53 up 15 days, 14:10, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.05, 0.01
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