I think there is a general rebellion against bloatware in the works, though. Has the OS -- or any other software that has bloated with it like MS Office -- gotten noticably better for all this extra space and CPU power used? No! I'm sticking with Windows 98 for the forseeable future, and plan my next 'upgrade' to be LINUX. And besides the bloat wasting our rapidly advancing computing power, it looks like Longhorn will be another step in putting 'Big Brother Inside' our PCs.
Slashdot: Microsoft Assembles Patent Arsenal for Longhorn
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...tid=187&tid=99
It seems that Microsoft is filing a staggering, mind-boggling 10 patents per day as it builds Longhorn. Every eyeblink and twitch of this OS will be patented so they can prevent anyone from making inter-operable software or even programming applications that they don't like -- i.e. something that breaks their DRM system. If you didn't like the 'registration' system for XP watching your hardware and requiring a refresh if you changed too much, you'll really resent Longhorn as it controls what you can do with your own data!
Re: OT- Longhorn
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