[ale] Microsoft tries to reverse Vista's Impact on the environment

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 08:20:47 EDT 2009


GAAAAAAGGGGG! Is Redmond in an earthquake zone or near an active
volcano? Or maybe in a direct line of flight for a passing large chunk
of intergalactic rock? Can we shift the Earth just a bit to get the
alignment right?

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Richard Bronosky<Richard at bronosky.com> wrote:
> Round 2:
> in http://twit.tv/floww14  34:50 A story is relayed of a former MSFT
> developer stating that in development of SMB2 they were explicitly
> told to F**K with Samba. A delete transaction that required 2 packets
> on SMB1 now uses 1500 packets via the Vista GUI using SMB2. How much
> waste is produced at the expense of their own customers (in the form
> of productivity and energy/money) and society (in the form of
> resources and pollution) for the sake of thwarting competition? Now
> consider that the majority of all workstations are now wireless
> capable (even if not always used wireless) notebook computes. This is
> a problem of scale, and it is severe.
>
>
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