Windows 7 -- So What?

PC World says, "Windows 7 offers little more than incremental improvements and cosmetic enhancements over Windows Vista."

Now that's a bummer, because there's been an awful lot o' hype around this launch. But they go on to give Five Reasons to Upgrade to Windows 7:

1. Vista Haters: Not a good reason for me, 'cause I rather like Vista -- and I've gotten the bugs mostly worked out.
   
2. XP Diehards: Isn't this about the same as the first reason?
3. Home Networking: Geez, got that figured out in the Win 98 days.
4. Media Sharing: Copying files is pretty easy on any network. Is it worth hundreds of dollars for new operating systems to make it a little easier?
5. Go With the Flow: Really? Do it because all the cool kids are doing it? That's just sad.
   

I'll only go Win7 if I have to buy a new computer. Of course, now that my old computer won't boot and I've ruled out the motherboard, hard drive, video card and memory, that time might come soon than I thought. New power supply will be delivered Saturday, and if that doesn't work then its a-shopping I will go . . .

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Rewarding Spammers

According to a survey conducted by security firm Mirapoint and market research company the Radicati Group, nearly a third of e-mail users have clicked on links in spam messages.

One in ten users have bought products advertised in junk mail.

Shame on people.

Firefox Update

Mozilla has released Firefox 1.02 to fix a security flaw.

Inaproppriate Comments in Microsoft Code

The reason that Microsoft doesn't release more source code, according to Shawn Burke, a manager on the Windows Forms team:

The issue is around comments. See, in order for us to ship the code we need to "scrub" the comments and make sure there is nothing bad in there. No swear words, no bad jokes on the part of developers, no references to specfiic customers, no geo-political faux pas. And with well over half a million lines of code, there is just no way we'll be able to get this done. Plus you'll need to do it with each new release, etc. It's a ton of work (and don't bother debating the necessity of all of this, trust me, it is what it is).

Hat tip to Slashdot.