* Posts by Haku

1902 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Apr 2007

Microsoft too busy to name Linux patents

Haku

Bag of hot air?

Does anyone remember that one kid at school who would boast about what present he got for christmas/birthday, usually something cool that was expensive or rare, but when you asked them to bring it in to school or go round their house to see it they would make up some elaborate excuse for not showing you the toy?

You see that kid, that's Microsoft that is.

Wanna copy of Windows XP next year? Forget it

Haku

Environmental issues?

Has anyone thought of the environmental issues associsted with needing to upgrade hardware just because you're forced to purchase a new resource hungry OS?

Not just the landfill impact of throwing away old hardware but a faster machine generally means more electricity used.

Personally I'm still sticking with Win2k, never liked XP even when the (horrible) eye-candy GUI has been changed to 'classic' and I can't see myself jumping aboard the Vista boat anytime soon.