Shots In The Dark
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
  Windows News
I feel bad for my cousin Lucy, whose Windows laptop was out of commission for a week because of a virus—it kept taking her to webpages she wasn't choosing. Wonder what information it took from her hard drive while it was doing that?

Meantime, I happened to wander into Staples the other day and saw that the company was advertising that they would install Vista on your computer for free, even though it was a "$59.95 value." Hilarious. First, what an arbitrary determination of value. Second, the idea that your software is so confusing and hazard-filled, you have to pay someone to install it......
  9:32 AM  
Comments:
Funny commercial along these lines featuring the Windows geek and the Apple hipster.
# posted by Anonymous : February 6, 2007 10:11 AM
 
Where has this guy been? I read an interview (either Time online or maybe MSNBC) with Gates the other day dealing with Vista, Richard, and he was talking about how easily Apples were remotely hijacked or otherwise hacked? Did you happen to read it?
# posted by Anonymous : February 6, 2007 10:23 AM
 
Now that's an impartial observer, Bill Gates....
# posted by Richard Bradley : February 6, 2007 10:28 AM
 
My Apples crash all the time, but I gotta admit I don't get pop-ups or crazy stuff happening with the web pages. Still....isn't it just a matter of time?
# posted by Anonymous : February 7, 2007 2:23 PM
 
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