Windows Vista is watching you

[gray_ghost]

This is too much....is there anything this OS doesn't suck at? From the article:

Are you using Windows Vista? Then you might as well know that the licensed operating system installed on your machine is harvesting a healthy volume of information for Microsoft. In this context, a program such as the Windows Genuine Advantage is the least of your concerns. In fact, in excess of 20 Windows Vista features and services are hard at work collecting and transmitting your personal data to the Redmond company.

A better question might be - what can this operating system do correctly?

As soon as I get everything backed up on my hard drive - I'm installing Ubuntu. Bye bye Microsquish....it's been good to know you =)

Comments

[venischazeik.livejournal.com]

I don't like Vista. I don't have it, I refuse to have it on my home computers. Unfortunately, there is a rumor that it will be forced on us at work.

What are my other choices for OS? I know Mac and Linux, but all my machines are Windows PCs and I have Windows at work so I need something that will be compatible at home.

[gray-ghost.livejournal.com]

You can probably stay with Windows XP on your home PC for years yet without upgrading. XP is a good operating system. Eventually all the bugs in Windows Vista (or a tolerable number of them) will be worked out. I don't think that will happen for another year or so though.

Linux has this thing called Samba share which allows it to interface with windows and share files on a network. To other computers on the network, it looks just like a windows machine. Also - it can understand most windows files. Like if you make a spreadsheet with Microsoft Excel - you can open it on linux with Open Office. Open Office is available on windows too and I've been using it for the past 5 years because I think it's actually better than MS Office.

The only place Linux starts to become painful and you have to be sort of a geek is when you put it on your laptop. Then there can be some problems which it can be a little challenging to work through and you may need to go online and ask around in newsgroups.