[citation][nom]Startled_Toad[/nom]Yer im usuing certified vista hardware as it was all released with a shiny "VISTA READY" stiker on it, and then u take the drivers tht came with the "VISTA READY" hardware put it all together, dus it work? Hell no. Taken me 6 months to get 64bit to run stable, turns out tht i need to have my ddr2800 mem runnin at ddr2667 speeds otherwise i get endless bluescreens. Course ms want us to use vista they are stopping selling xp thou havent done coz of the state of vista which they themselves have admited isnt very good.If i was to sell a piece of hardware like a laptop or motherboard to a customer saying that it works perfectly fine. When they get it home find it dusnt work properly who gets in trouble for it? they cant sell a product that dusnt work, especially for the price they are charging for it these days. £70ish for something that dusnt work properly? Yer but by not conforming to standards they are bringing these lawsuits on themselves, and intentionally making it difficult for other people to create compatable software for there software, and this then has a knock on effect to the end user, because ms want to be the only manufacturer around they are spoiling it for the rest of us. Because safari follow ths normal webstandards like ff and opera. Why do most versions of linux come with ff?[/citation]
Are you entirely sure that your system is stable? To me it would sound like your chipset or memory modules might be unstable? Tried running prime95 ? and if you're using ddr1 it's quite likely the vrm or chipset has paid the toll of old age anyway. Unless you've done an 8 hour prime test, you can't truely blame microsoft for the bluescreens.
[citation][nom]ThePatriot[/nom]I would welcome the moment that MS breaks up camp and leave the EU without their O/S. That would force users to apply an open source O/S plus (EU) companies can invest in new opportunities. That is a win-win situation.Leaves the US intelligence community with a huge problem: no more back doors to open. (Besides the one in Cisco software; that's right, I said it: Cisco is a software producer)[/citation]
You are aware that splitting up microsoft would likely cost a lot of jobs, and drasticly decrease the value of the company for their stock holders right? That might be good for some competators, but I doubt it's going to be good for the public that has to pay the consequences. Splitting bell labs was probably one of the worst choices in us history in the first place. Why repeat it?
Anyway. If microsoft would stop supplying operating systems to the eu that would be bad for eu, not for microsoft. It would leave the majority of european industrial countries in ruin. Blocking the windows update servers from european contries, or just not supplying new updates to europe, in turn making all windows systems vulnearable. And alternatives require so much money to learn that any company depending heavily on computer use would suffer such a big expense in restaffing or staff training, that they might risk going out of business.
That'd be great for places like my company, which trains people in using linux, but I don't think it'll be good for more than a handful companies.
ps. my company is not only offering linux, but certified cisco and microsoft courses too. We'll survive no matter what. Except the goverment that funds us won't without microsoft licenses, so that might be tricky.
Anyway ignore all this rant and just read this : Microsoft should stand up and challenge the eu commission instead of playing lapdog.
Neiro
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