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By Ina Fried

Published: Tuesday 04 December 2007


Name

Karen Challinor


Location

UK


Occupation

staring at clouds


Comment

Microsoft VP, Mike Sievert, said: "Piracy rates are lower because it's harder."

Cloud starer, Karen Challinor says: "Piracy rates are lower because nobody wants it"

once you get past the "oo pretty" of the aero interface what do you get, you get an OS that thinks it's job is to tell you what to do the entire thing is the embodiment of that damn paperclip assistant

an OS is supposed to control the machine and make the resources of the machine available to the user in a controlled yet accessible manner, it is not the job of the OS to control the user



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