Today I reinstalled Windows

[Fred Roller]

Odd wrote:
>
>  But MS has always cared more about
> customers' convenience, rather than them being secure.
>
>
>   
Here in lies the the primary consumer product being sold, convience.  
When the system gets corrupt then send them to a pc house to fix... wait 
"this new system is cheaper than the repair?"  /and/ "you can get my 
data and settings?"...OK :-)   hmmm.  I notice a pattern.  Then when 
putting linux on a box should technically make them cheaper and in fact 
makes them more expensive from the major manufactures (well, de11 from 
my own experience.), but have heard of the MS subsidy to manufactures.

I did stay on top of my windows machine when I had one, practiced safe 
surfing with up to date AV.  Even with all the steps found myself 
rebuilding every 6-12 months just for GP because it seemed to clear what 
I call "creep".  It was easy except for the 2 hour fight to re-activate 
my key.

If you have no clue and walk in to Wally World and see a PC with 
printer, monitor, all the bells and whistles for $300 -$500 set up next 
to a $1200 PC with Monitor and Keyboard.  Which do you get?  It's cheap 
and supposedly will do just as much as the more expensive which probably 
just got some extra stuff on geeks need anyway.

MS has definitely made PC's convenient and disposable.  I'll save all 
the "Free" Trial offers for another time. ;-)

-- 
Fred
www.fwrgallery.com

"Life is like linux, simple.  If you are fighting it you are doing something wrong."