BB FANS

Reuters
Wed Nov 30, 2005 8:46 PM GMT
By Michael Kahn

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. <MSFT.O> on Wednesday started giving computer users the chance to test its new security service as the world's largest software maker took its biggest step yet into the lucrative consumer security market.

The company is making its Windows OneCare Live service available for free in a "beta," or test version, to help it work out any potential problems before the product's likely introduction next year.

The service, which offers anti-virus, firewall, backup and recovery, as well as personal computer maintenance, will eventually be available for a subscription fee, said Microsoft spokeswoman Samantha McManus. The company has not yet determined how much it will charge.

Oh great.. the windows platform will come with engineered security holes and you have to pay end blood money tio plug em ..*shuffles off to reconsider using linux*

Linux is great BUT nothing runs on it except servers

New version of windoze next year, i've seen it, looks good but it's massively huge and won't run on a lot of machines out there..will make my ex boss rich tho bless him.

ah .. just as well I didnt buy it then

Yea i`v e seen the demos on click online ... I think i will wait a long while before I progress too it, let some other fools be the gunie pigs ..

Trouble with some people, you have no faith in 'Mictoshaft'. You don't really think they are trying to take over the world........Do You

The only good thing Microrob ever did was nick the software from steve jobs and half inch the mouse from IBM.. as a DOS user it was one hell of a relief as i could never remember the commands

Try this one in dos

format C: /Q

Microsoft won't be dominating the browser market forever, firefox has 10-15% now-a long way to go but it's only been a year.

-f

seriously I keep a laptop to remind me what computers where like originaly... i remember games like DOOM .. would only work in DOS mode when windows 3.1 was around and those where the days I worked with dumb terminals ...

hehe I used to install dumb terminals on networks, the whole world looked bright green for hours afterwards

OMG .. I spent hours as a young lad inputing reems of figures into a green screen

Because I worked for BT back then I also got to see the old analogue exchanges before they were replaced .. OMG did they make a racket.... just makes me realise how quickly things move on ,, i mean my first mobile phone was the size of a car battery

Hey I remember those 'Mobiles', we had a couple in the studio for 'Advertising' purposes and one of the models pulled a muscle lugging one around. Best laugh we had for weeks.....didn't like the scrawny mooo

ladies and mobiles, the landlady at my local has dropped three seperate phones into the loo

I've still got a P60 with WFW3.11 installed.
And somewhere I still have a couple of DOS games that won't run on a modern Windows machine. 7th Guest and 11th Hour. Great games of their time. I wonder if anybody every completed 11th hour without the crib sheet from Virgin ? I remember downloading it off the Virgin BBS Pre-Internet.

Ah larry. it was Doom 1 and then Duke Nukem.fir me.. omg I remember playing my first ever online games ..running on a jerky 28k modem

I have no idea whatsoever what you boys are on about, but may I just say that Linus Torvalds is finnish. You know, the guy that created Linux in the first place