____/ Mark Kent on Sunday 06 January 2008 20:26 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Vista SP1 to lie about RAM usage. Deliberately!
>>
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>>| If you right click on "My Computer" and go to properties, it will show the
>>| amount of RAM that your computer can see. This is perfectly fine, but
>>| sometimes the ignorant consumer buys 4GB of RAM, and thinks there is a
>>| problem when their OS only reports 3GB.
>>| So, what does the richest company in the world do about it?
>>| Fix the problem at the core?
>>| Enforce manufacturers to use 64bit?
>>| nope. They just have their OS lie about it.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.antonywilliams.com/2007/12/vista-sp1-to-lie-about-ram-usage.html
>>
>> Lying is OK at Microsoft. Examples below (from OOXML).
>>
>
> Inspection of the Windows 2k task manager shows that it lies about the
> memory usage of Microsoft Outlook. This overt dishonesty about resource
> usage has been going on for *at least* 8 years.
Or 8 days....
Legacy format FUD
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| From CyberTech Rambler (and Slashdot) comes the news that the Office 2003
| Service Pack #3 disables (blocks) access to a number of legacy document
| formats. Details are in this MS support article. Formats so blocked include
| legacy Lotus 1-2-3 and Corel Quattro Pro formats. Why? According to the
| Microsoft support article, "By default, these file formats are blocked
| because they are less secure. They may pose a risk to you.".
|
| [...]
|
| Now it may be entirely possible that these old import filters in Excel are
| poorly written and poorly maintained and that Microsoft may be trying to
| reduce the overall security exposure of MS Office by ditching old code that
| is not strategic for them. But call it that. The MS Office code has the
| problem. Don't malign the formats. Don't make up some untenable story that
| DIF format is "less secure" and "may pose a risk for you".
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/01/legacy-format-fud.html
To a convicted criminal, lying is a business method rather than a problem.
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