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   Review - Internet Explorer Collection

   1.1.0.0 (Aug 28, 2008)

   dssdbs : in case you do not know the description is written by the "uploader" not betanews redaction.
   
   Second : There is no difference between "standards" and recommendations since neither are mandatory and none less descriptive than the other. It is just anal semantic.

2. Comment - Is there any sense to Microsoft's 800 layoffs?

   1.1.0.0 (Nov 5, 2009 - 5:40 AM)

   They are just putting pressure on their employee that's all.
   You are not safe, you'll never be ....
   Good earnings, bad earnings, good times bad times, you are under the axe forever.
   As long as most "managers" will equate, in fact, whatever they say, management with fear, productivity with "pressure" and efficiency with short term ...

3. Comment - How to solve the net neutrality issue

   1.1.0.0 (Nov 4, 2009 - 8:55 AM)

   Reading you was refeshing :)
   
   thanks.

4. Comment - What is a Windows 7 upgrade, really?

   1.1.0.0 (Sep 16, 2009 - 6:24 AM)

   Just two funny things before the big why :)
   1) "but making all the preparations and doing all the post-setup corrections are part of the job"
   Your job, my job, some people passions but definitely not the typical customer one, or I have the wrong bunch of friends :)
   and
   2) "actually wouldn't have time to become a BitTorrent addict if I had the time" this one was good but It may be my french that get me to misunderstood the sentence... Still If I had the time, I'll have the time too :)
   
   More importantly I wonder why nobody ask The Simple Question :) :
   WHY DOES IT TAKE SO LONG ?
   Installing an OS is just copying files and doing maybe a few moves or conversion on some critical parts , it should not be that grand sorcery .. We should just have a look at the BSD upgrade process or most unix ones or the mac one (I am not speaking of the application support here but the upgrade process per see).
   Why why why does windows need to have special files strange boot records, huge registries, multiple copies of the same file to backup up potential user mistakes that are in fact os deficiency etc etc ....
   Why does the drivers need to be NEW for each version and the whole driver model to change every other version ?
   Why is this OS not capable anymore to reliably do a file copy in a reasonable time ? File operations are the CORE of an OS !!!! How can such an OS even SHIP as an OS ?
   
   Why is this OS, now in its seventh full version still not f..ing (pardon my French) mature ?
   
   PS: Maybe the windows installer uses the OS file copy routines to do its job, that would explain why it takes so long to complete ... :(

5. Comment - FCC ponders a future with multiple 'internets'

   1.1.0.0 (Sep 6, 2009 - 12:08 PM)

   How to shoot down network neutrality making the killing look like a technical problem ...
   
   Of course if is again forgetting the basic principles we should updhold : it is the ubiquity and transparency of the INTERNET that gives it values (even if it destroy a few monopoly revenue sources in the process ...)

6. Comment - How to turn off Palm Pre's 'Big Brother' data collection

   1.1.0.0 (Aug 14, 2009 - 9:44 AM)

   I hate all their double langage "we value your privacy and so we allow you to stop us for spying on you"... if they valued anything they would not in the fist place, and believe me it is useless, just a false business model of selling unproven facts and dubious "deductions" ...
   big brother for the sake of big brother, the system running and running..
   
   One "funny thing" is that YOU PAY for them sending data about you "home".... it is not like mobile connectivity was anything but cheap ...
   They are all around stopping you to enjoy anything from them without paying but they have no trouble using your infrastructure and money to serve their supposed interests ...