FON is the largest WiFi community in the world. FON is a Community of people making WiFi universal and free. There vision is WiFi everywhere made possible by the members of the Community, Foneros. The idea to share some of your home Internet connection and get free access to the Community’s FON Spots worldwide. There are plenty of locked wifi spots in my street, so i’m adding a open one. Will be interested to see how much use it gets.
You know that saying that all PR is good PR? Not sure it always works.
Never before have I seen such an abysmal start to an operating system release. For almost a year, people have been adopting Vista and becoming incensed by how poorly it operates. Not only does it cost too much, it requires more to run than XP, there is still poor driver support, and that draconian licensing scheme is a by-product of Microsoft picking on the wrong people.
The road ahead looks dangerous for Vista and Microsoft must realize that. With Mac OS X hot on its tail, Vista is simply not capable of competing at an OS level with some of the best software around. If Microsoft continues down this path, it will be Vista that will bring the software giant to its knees–not Bill Gates’ departure.
Of course, categorically dumping an operating system is quite difficult and with millions already using the OS, chances are Microsoft won’t find a good enough reason to do it. And while I can understand that argument, there’s no reason the company can’t continue to support Vista and go back to the drawing board for its next OS. Even better, go back to XP–it’s not nearly as bad as Vista.
As a daily user of Mac OS X, XP and Vista (i removed it after 2 weeks), I’m keenly aware of what works and what doesn’t. Mac and XP work.
Read the full article at - Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself
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