[Ubuntu Chicago] jaunty upgrade broke my laptop :(

[Michael McCune]

Microsoft would only bundle their programs with Windows and would not
allow the PC manufacturer or end user to remove the bundled
applications. If MS would allow other apps to be bundled with Windows
and allowed bundled Windows apps to be removed, it would not have been a
problem.

George Lesica wrote:
> On the other hand, part of the reason MS doesn't bundle more software
> is that the government used that type of software bundling against
> them in the anti-trust case. Even bundling IE is highly controversial
> and the EU is considering making them totally strip it out.
>
> ~ George T. Lesica
> glesica at gmail.com
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Michael McCune <mjmccune at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> That's the way Windows has always been. It didn't even have a browser
>> until Windows 98.
>>
>> Randall Wilson wrote:
>>     
>>> Oops. If it's any consolation, it's Windows 7 beta and, although very
>>> smooth and nearly as pretty as Jaunty, is totally useless to me except
>>> for maybe testing things with IE 8. Did you guys know that a fresh
>>> Windows install comes with nothing? I don't have time to sit around all
>>> day and download programs from random sites just to make my computer work!
>>> :)
>>> -Randy
>>>
>>> Jim Campbell wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Most of Randy's menu.list looked fine, but I would like to point out
>>>> what is surely a major error in the file, though:
>>>>
>>>> # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a
>>>> non-linux OS
>>>> # on /dev/sda3
>>>> title           Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
>>>> rootnoverify    (hd0,2)
>>>> savedefault
>>>> makeactive
>>>> chainloader     +1
>>>>
>>>> Surely this entry should be removed from the system, as it may provide
>>>> a backdoor for trojans and viruses of all kinds.  :-)
>>>>
>>>> Jim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>       
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