[News] [Rival] Windows Limits Bandwidth, Punishes Hobbyists, Driving Them to Linux

[Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure this was mentioned here before:

"Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes like
Windows Updates and interrogating your PC etc."

http://www.tqdq.com/Windows-tricks/System-Hacks/Increase-internet-speed.html

A change in Microsoft Licensing and an intro to Ubuntu Linux

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| I discuss the changes in Vistas licencing scheme that may have a serious 
| effect on the hobbyist. I also talk about Ubuntu, and explain how to get free 
| professionally minted disks for the asking.    
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNMslCh8Xyw