OT: New low for Microsoft!

[Preston Crawford]

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 22:13, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 05:42:21AM +0100, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
> > It's at times like these, that I am greatly relieved I'm not a Windows
> > user:
> > http://www.genesis-x.nildram.co.uk/news/article00005.html
> 
> Yeah, sure would suck to have software designed to take capabilities of what
> sounds like a pretty average machine three years from now. Oh, the humanity.

You're kidding, right? You're actually defending software bloat for the
sake of software bloat? I run a PIII 800 I bought 3 years ago. Given the
current needs of Open Source Software I can see myself using this
machine for another 4 years. Easily. Is there something wrong with
stretching your dollar for computer hardware or did I miss the memo that
we must purchase new machines every other year? This machine works
great. I do email, web, development, run a mySQL server, CVS server and
an HTTP server on it and I have RAM and CPU cycles to spare. Even when
I'm ripping CDs, burning CDs and watching DVDs. I don't need more power
now and I'm already like 3 years behind the curve in terms of power. I
can't imagine NEEDING the specs that this article describes. 

If I do, there's something fundamentally wrong with the software I'm
running. Either that or the software better be balancing my checkbook,
running my budget, setting up appointments for me, answering my voice
mail and returning phone calls per my instructions and looking up all
data I request via voice recognition. Oh, and it should carry on
conversations with me if I'm bored. Meaning, this kind of power means
the software better be doing a lot more than just bloating an already
bloated OS and adding a few minor software enhancements. Otherwise, I
don't see what Longhorn could do to justify these specs.

Preston