From: mike 

Wow, I just got that email.  Took 'em a while to grind thorough all their customers.

 /m


On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:15:13 -0500, Gary Britt
 wrote:

>Here's an interesting high point.  I just got this from an Email from Raxco
>makers of Perfect Disk, Disk Defragmenter:
>
>Raxco is proud to announce that PerfectDisk 8 is the first and only
>defragmenter to be Certified for Windows Vista by Microsoft.  PerfectDisk 8
>Build 50 is now available for use on Windows Vista, as well as Windows XP
>Home/Professional, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Professional/Server.
>
>*During the PerfectDisk 8 Vista certification testing process, Raxco’s
>development team uncovered a *bug* within a component of Windows Vista that
>*could potentially cause hard drive corruption*. Raxco has already reported
>this bug to Microsoft and Microsoft is working to resolve the issue. Raxco
>has designed PerfectDisk 8 build 50 to specifically work around this issue*
>
>
>mike wrote:
>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37394
>>
>> ===
>> ONE OF THE most damning condemnations of the shiny DRM infection
>> masquerading as an OS is on Microsoft's own site, its paid for list of
>> reasons why Vista roX0rz or something. It is really a good laugh.
>>
>> This article is sheer marketing pabulum, but you would think Microsoft
>> could have at least figured out something worth a damn to crow about in
>> its own propaganda piece. Rather than fib about what Vista brings to the
>> table, it told the truth, and that is why things are so sad.
>>
>> So, what does it bring? 7.5 things, none of which are worth the time it
>> takes to install, much less the money or the rights Vista takes from
>> you. Let's go down the list shall we?
>>
>> 1) IE 7: The number one thing as they say is not exclusive to Vista, nor
>> is it anything other than a warmed over virus and spyware vector. Use
>> Firefox or pay the price, botnet herders want your box. So far 0/1.
>>
>> 2) Windows Sidebar: Be still my beating heart, widgets that every other
>> OS in the world has had since about, oh, 1983, but done more
>> intrusively. Luckily it sucks resources and screen space. Handy tip, if
>> you are experiencing heavy CPU load at idle, turn off the clock, you may
>> get 1/3 of your CPU time back. This pile was tested for how long? 0/2.
>>
>> 3) Aero: Ok, they are right it is pretty. 1/3.
>>
>> 4) Mahjong Titans: If you don't have anything real to talk about, why
>> not tout fluff. (Read this next part as me feigning excitement) Holy
>> sh*t, Mah-fscking-jong!!! Way cool. I was only expecting a database
>> filesystem and middleware layer four years ago, but Mahjong just blows
>> me away. Now I understand where all those years, programmer-decades and
>> billions of dollars went, certainly not flushed if you get Mahjong

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