Microsoft operating system reinvented

Before anybody can claim that any money is lost to a business due to internet shopping, or any other reason, they first have to prove that the people in question are putting in a solid 8 hours at work. What are the odds of that...?

If the time spent shopping is being deducted from their normal slagging time, the net loss is zero.

Any boss who thinks his employees aren't wasting at least 30 minutes in an 8 hour day, is drinking the bong water.

Joe Canucklehead

Subject: Windows firewall set ablaze

Another reason why I use a Mac.

Have a great day,

Glenn

Subject: AMD vs. InHell lawsuit

Just an FYI... This case will still be pending actual trial when you and I are both six feet under.

Bandy

Subject: Screw everywhere girl - I agree

Screw everywhere girl - I agree, Is she related to someone at the INQ?

Drop that boring crap already!

Ed

Subject: Dear Microsoft...

Here's a killer OS product for you. Take Windows 2000. Package all the security updates. Add antialiased fonts. Put BASH in as the shell. Ship it with "express" dev studio (the free one). Add a firewall. Add Firefox with SVG support (ok, at last I jest). Wow. I'll buy 2.

Thanks!

Matthew.

Subject: Re: Screw everywhere girl

Hello,

This is in responce to Vanakkuty's call to screw the "ugly" everywhere girl.

Well, the everywhere girl isnt popular because she is beutiful-although that completely depends on taste. But more a comment on how the modern world works, and even more a comment on the prolifferation of stock photography being used by MegaCorps and SME's alike.

But, you can also look at it as a form of being famous for being famous. Think of IT girls that are all over the pages of the RedTabloids, and you get where I'm coming from.

However, I take a different view to this. I think she has become much reported upon due to the way, just like stock photography, that modern life is getting cheap. Not as in cost, but as in a more a fact of everything is getting more standardised. Henry Ford first standardised his production. Over the decades this has become standard across all industries. In the 60's firms made bespoke software for thier needs, now software is bought in at lower cost of ownership (which is good if you are running a MegaCorp that needs x-million copies of a piece of software) but that doesnt neccassarily meet the needs that are put upon it.

But, I suppose thats modern life.

Nahtan.

Subject: hexucks

Paul Dutton's response to Alienware reps was most surprising. Throwing around words like "moron" quite often reflects the maturity of the writer, not the recipient.

I never did care for Hexus and their unwarranted snobish attitude. If they cannot digest the realities of the big-bad-corporate-world, then I think the Inq should be in charge of changing their diapers.

Alienware is simply running a business. If I were a manufacturer who got egged in the face by a group of cartoons, I would not be sending any more material to them either.

Why this fact is so difficult for PD to digest, I'll never know. Maybe the nanny missed his feeding.

A reader

Subject: Vista and business

I wored for a while at NASA in Melbourne, and all the machines were 80% Unix and al the rest which is a 1000 at least are all win 95. When I got there and asked the reason why so old an OS they said they had documented every issue and if it wasnt, make one. So we would walk through the halls with our palm pilots and beam the answers to problems to each other or get large memory sticks. I even spent 3 days there once because a disgruntled employee said we ran illegal copies of MS project (which they probably did without knowing). Had to inventory all software on all win machines. I think they have since converted to linux except for the exec's who refuse, and did have the newer OS's. Then again in the priority que if a programmers pc is dows and an exec's PC isnt playing solitaire guess who gets top priority?

Nandro

Subject: The dude

TheInquirer is significantly ahead of others in announcing developements in computing industry, often years ahead.

However, writing style is simply computer generated from feed. Its' nethier funny or not, just way theinquirer style happens to be.

I havn't written in years, yet did AMD go from $25 to $15 & then to $45 & now settling into $20 with low of $10 predicted? Yes, as I stated, theres' real money to be made in such wild fluxuations.

Stew. ("The" Billionare).

Subject: The Alienware/Hexus thing

I'd just like to point out that there's isn't a public exchange of views on Hexus site. It's a one-sided article which chose to re-print some private emails between Hexus and Alienware.

You'll if you read the email trail you'll find Alienware is quite reasonable and trying to defuse the situation while Hexus went ahead with this feature.

It seems wrong to put this forward as a public exchange of views as such.

Mat