Microsoft to give away Windows for Free... (maybe)
 Okay you sick bast*rd, microsoft, why are you trying to make me buy things? The audacity of this one just floored me. A "Shop for music online" button turned up inside windows explorer, where I was expecting to find the "Make a new folder" button. On closer inspection, the tenuous excuse microsoft have for showing me this button: One of the subfolders contains a three kilobyte file called "ping.wav". Ah, anyway: I see the future now...
Microsoft will eventually give away their operating system for free. Absolutely free. Gratis. Not one dime. Oh -- just two small "features" you can't disable: - Digital rights management that stops all tinkering with the OS
- Contextual ads absolutely everywhere.
Clippy will be a laughable and funny guy compared with the monsters of contextual intrusion that MS will release in this forthcoming monster. WHo am I kidding? I'd still use it. And you probably would too. Maybe I should start tinkering with ReactOS.
So here's my contextual ad:
Check out TimeSnapper, a cool new tool we've built that helps you monitor the way you really work. You will be shocked.
'Jason Looney' on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 20:19:43 GMT, sez: That TimeSnapper looks pretty friggin' sweet, Leon. Great idea.
Add me to the list of people who would like dual monitor support. My 'primary' scren is pretty boring.
'Matthew' on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 19:40:51 GMT, sez: It probably thinks that directory is a Music directory (like My Music). I think those details may be stored in desktop.ini, although I am not 100% - for months my PC thought My Videos was My Pictures and I never did sort that (until I reimaged the machine)...
'Rob Miller' on Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:28:25 GMT, sez: I liked your site.
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