re: IE6 being phased out at Google
Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 12:09 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
Arminius wrote:
|you are wasting your time at this forum.
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Well, it is my time.
...and I don't consider making people aware of their options to be a "waste".
|The decrease in the cost of a new computer over the last 15 years
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Many people running W98 find their *current* HARDWARE to be quite serviceable;
it's the outdated, unsupported M$ SOFTWARE on it that causes them grief.
(Modern) Linux fills that niche--for FREE.
...and their *old* peripherals won't be supported under a new M$ OS
--the kind of support at which Linux excels.
|makes the built-in cost of an OEM Windows license
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If it wasn't for the crapware that gets pre-installed on new hardware,
there would be no reason for vendors to continue to install
an OS that costs more than zero.
It's all the "free" trialware that continues to make Windoze profitable for them.
...and a new vendor scheme aimed at the suckers who buy pre-installed Windoze
is a "service" to get the crapware removed
--a "service" which the suckers pay extra for, of course.
|seem like chump change to most consumers.
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Most people balk at the few bucks extra that getting an actual Windoze CD costs.
...and "most" people (naively) think that they get Windoze for free (see above).
If there was a la carte pricing on all the bits of a system
and it was mandated that that price list is available to all customers[1],
a lot more people would realize that Windoze isn't free
and many would forego the payware and opt for the Free Software.
I blame the roll-over-for-corporations "regulators" here
--not that M$ gets any slack from me
WRT their deceptive, anti-competitive business model.
|In one article I read last year it was reported
|Microsoft was getting as little as $10 per copy for XP preinstalled in netbooks.
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I read one report that it was $8
and another that said M$ was having to give it away in order to get any play.
...and, of course, on ARM-based systems, Windoze isn't even an option
--and ARM is fast becoming the norm for portable devices.
(ARM+Linux costs less and is better on battery life.)
Going with the a la carte idea, if given the choice of payware that gets infected
or Free Software that doesn't get infected,
I'm thinking there is a large number of folks who whould choose the latter.
In addition, factor in all the time you wasted chasing your tail WRT infections.
(This is unknown outside the Windoze ecosystem.)
If businesses were to make an honest appraisal
of how much time and money they put into fighting (Windoze-only) malware,[2]
they would drop M$ like a hot potato.
Yet another factor will raise its ugly head
when M$ takes its XP activation servers off-line
and folks find out that their re-installs of that OS don't "take".
In time, Vista and Vista 7 users will find that they have suffered the same fate
...and those sheep will, once again, give money to M$
for yet another easily-infected OS which requires new hardware to run.
Linux, OTOH, doesn't require "activation" (aka: No Remote Kill Switches)
and doesn't get infected and runs on your old box.
|So, does anyone know of any hacks to get IE7 or 8 running in 98SE? :-)
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Why would someone want the latest infect-my-brains-out-ware?
The *LESS* M$ software you use, the more carefree your computing experience.
[1] Academics have proposed that pricing paradigm to the European Commission.
[2] Many have made that evaluation
and those businesses/orgs/governments are switching to Linux
--or have already made that transition.
Being able to actually ask for competitive bids for software and support
is another advantage of moving away from M$.
...and *smart* software developers
have been making their products cross-platform-capable for years.
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