"If you are a big company or organization with lots of correspondence and documents you want to keep secret, Windows RM is, indeed, a blessing. If you are a whistleblower, a journalist, a lawyer, a cop — or anyone who has the audacity to want to use software other than Microsoft Windows or Office — you should be very afraid."
"RM has another benefit, which I am not the first to note: It will eliminate the e-mail and document trails that hurt Microsoft in antitrust court."
Want to help Bill Gates to commit corporate crimes and get away with them?
posted on March 4, 2003 02:49:46 PM new
As I've said before, except for people who are heavily invested in windows specific software, Win-doze can be irrelevant if you want it to be. There are numerous and mounting reasons not to use it, and plenty of workable alternatives. I have purged all traces of M$ from my system, including Internet Exploder, yet have no difficulty opening the Word, Excel and PowerPoint files of others when necessary. Bill Gates can bite me.
posted on March 4, 2003 05:43:14 PM new
I tried to use a Mac once. . .never did catch on to it. I'm sorry to say I'm not up on all this Bill Gates and MicroSoft talk. Are there files on my computer I should be dumping? Besides temporary Internet files and cookies? If so, please tell me what they are!!
posted on March 4, 2003 07:59:27 PM new
CBlev - Macs are incredibly simple once you get used to the small differences. Windows is actually an attempt to dulicaate the Mac operating system. I've been on them for 12 years and would not dream of owning anything else.
They are simple to fix if there is a problem, more importantly there is rarely a problem. Best of all, you know all those pesky little viruses that people like to email you? They don't effect Macs. Since the operating system and language is so different, (and their are much fewer users to annoy) very few hackers bother writing viruses for Macs.
posted on March 5, 2003 04:50:56 AM new
Thanks, neomania.
Perhaps one day I will breakaway from Windows. Afterall, I did eventually breakaway from AOL. Didn't think I could do it at first, but I did. And I'm so glad I made that move. I suppose it's human nature to want to stay with the familiar.
posted on March 5, 2003 05:14:29 AM new
I'm using both Linux and Win98.
But I'm not going past that release.
I'm usingthe Lindows variation of Debian because it is so convenient to download programs. But by the time I am real familiar with it I'll be able to use any variation.
