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Story: Microsoft trials licence-checking programme

Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 22 September 2004, 10:21 AM)

Hang on, microsoft products superior to OpenOffice / Linux? pull the other on its got a cheque with bill gates' name on it. I'll admit that OOo is a little klunky at times but linux is rock solid and beats the lederhosen off windows anytime of the day. I run a the latest kernel 2.6.8.1 with a fully functional desktop that NEVER CRASHES on a crappy old Dell Lattitude CPi with 6 gbs of storage and 128mb ram AND 233mHz processor. WinXP can't even exist with less 256mb ram and even then it requires a rididulous amount V(irtual) M(memory) (I have never needed more than 128mb of swap on ANY machine). I have to suffer the misfortune of using WinXP in the office and it is a bloody nightmare! it's even less intuitive and more annoying then '98 or 2000 and it's still full of more security holes than George Bush's electoral mandate. The way in which the whole system is intertwined with IE makes it a playground for hackers and virus writers! One final point about the security and integrity of MicroShaft in the last decade there have been 60,000 highly dangerous virus written and released online for windows.... in that same time there have been 40 similar viruses in the linux/unix world. Superior products? don't make me laugh it's just a case of what you don't know may not neccesarily hurt you...