By David Becker
Published: Thursday 14 October 2004
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Name
Simon
Location
Bolton
Occupation
IT Consultant
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Surely these patents are daft, as all video players do this with pre-recorded tapes? DVD's do the same.
All PC's have detected whether a floppy disk was present and boot from that over the hard drive.
The process however does not have to be automatic in Windows, in fact I have configured my machines to offer multiple options when a CD is inserted.
Patents for software is a shameful act and is ruin...
Emrah BASKA
And car stereos have been auto-playing cassettes f...
Ian Sargent
Surely these patents are daft, as all video player...
Simon
I would argue that booting from media is not the s...
Ruprecht
MS should take this opportunity to remove this fun...
Craig
Didn't the Amiga do this in 1987?
Rickard
Auto-play of a CD can be a virus hazard but at lea...
Lionel A Smith
Autostarting is not new, and never has been in liv...
Nick Cole
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