On Thursday 09 August 2007, James Knott wrote:
Tero Pesonen wrote:
On Thursday 09 August 2007, James Knott wrote:
ould be a problem to many others though.
FWIW, a friend has an IBM ThinkPad, that came loaded with Windows 98. A couple of years ago, she upgraded to XP and found she could no longer play video DVDs. After some checking, we found that she has to buy the necessary software, from a web site that's very irritating and difficult to navigate through. She decided against providing her credit card info and went without DVD video playback. Another issue is when you install such things, you often get a load of crapware along with it. So, it is not always so easy for Windows users either.
interesting. This was new to me.
Most people who use Windows are sheltered from reality, because they don't have to install anything to get the hardware working and as long as they stick with the original OS intall, they don't have a problem. I was recently reading an article, by someone who was trying to install the boxed version of Windows XP on a notebook. One problem, among others, was that the NIC wasn't supported. He'd have to go to a web site to download the drivers. If he hadn't had another computer available, he wouldn't have been able to get the drivers, to enable networking. As for the crapware, that's par for the course for Windows. Dell recently announced they're going to sell systems without it, but according to the same article I mentioned above, when they bought a new Toshiba computer, it was already loaded with with crapware!
Yes, you're right. And the crapware is included because the PC makers lust after every extra penny they can get per unit sold, as the margins for PC's are so low. They don't care if the user wants it or not. I think Google is amongst the bigger companies that have paid to have their software included on new (at least Dell?) PC's and set up as the default. Tero
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