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

[Geoffrey]

Bob Toxen wrote:
> I briefly played with Vista on a brand new laptop that I purchased to
> send to a good friend at his request.
> 
> It was the slowest computer I ever have used for routine stuff.  For
> basic stuff it (about 2 GHz) was slower than Linux on my old 25 MHz
> laptop.  (Yes, slower than a 10,000% slower laptop running Linux.)
> 
> My friend will be replacing Vista with XP.  (He needs M$-only apps and
> Knows about Linux.)

I've had a number of experiences with Vista.  It is absolutely a dog. 
It is painfully slow, it makes doing anything a pain.

Interesting thing I noted just the other day on a Vista machine.  It was 
a desktop, but had a battery monitor running.  When I selected the icon, 
it was set for 'balanced.'  That is balancing battery life with speed. 
There was an option to optimize speed at the cost of the battery.

Think about it, the bloody OS doesn't even know it's on a desktop.  It 
was a stock build from Dell.


> 
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> 
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:03:15PM -0400, Richard Bronosky wrote:
>> First they push an OS that requires the most power hungry systems the
>> consumer market had ever seen. They go so far as to burn gratuitous
>> cycles to encrypt and decrypt data going in and out RAM because they
>> assume all their customers are criminals. Now they are going to make
>> it all better with http://www.microsoft-hohm.com/
>>
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Until later, Geoffrey

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