[mdlug] What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away

[Aaron Kulkis]

Michael Rudas wrote:
> LOL
> 
> I mention this kind of thing on a Linux list because most peoples'
> perceptions of what a computer IS are so heavily influence by
> Microsoft software, so it impacts us all -- and MS has become an
> anchor, dragging all computer users to the briny depths of Trojans,
> spyware, and wasted computer power...
> 
> "Case in point: Microsoft Office 2007 which, when deployed on Windows
> Vista, consumes over 12x as much memory and nearly 3x as much
> processing power as the version that graced PCs just 7 short years ago
> (Office 2000)."

That, combined with concocting new file formats which are
incompatible with old versions of office, is all part of
their strategy to get people to throw away their old
hardware, and thus buying yet another copy of the O.S.

> <http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-intel-giveth-microsoft-taketh-away.html>
> 
> ~~ Mikey