An exclusive gaming industry community targeted
to, and designed for Professionals, Businesses
and Students in the sectors and industries
of Gaming, New Media and the Web, all closely
related with it's Business and Industry.
A Rich content driven service including articles,
contributed discussion, news, reviews, networking, downloads,
and debate.
We strive to cater for cultural influencers,
technology decision makers, early adopters and business leaders in the gaming industry.
A medium to share your or contribute your ideas,
experiences, questions and point of view or network
with other colleagues here at iVirtua Community.
An open-source group mocked Microsoft on a newly-launched Web site dubbed BadVista.org and claimed the Windows operating system is a "power grab" to steal control over users' computers.
The Free Software Foundation's campaign will both promote free software alternatives to Vista and publicize what it sees as the danger of Microsoft's new OS, the group said.
Quote:
"Vista is an upsell masquerading as an upgrade," said John Sullivan, the group's program administrator, on the site. "It is a ruse to compel the further transfer of control over peoples' computers to an external and mysterious certification authority with peculiar standards of "genuine." It is a ploy to artificially motivate the purchase of expensive, unnecessary hardware."
This has been added... Let Microsoft know they need to fix their search engine
Quote:
In a comment on the last post, mfoetsch pointed out that a search for BadVista-related terms using Microsoft's live.com engine was producing rather...unexpected results. Many posts and pages turn up that link to BadVista.org, but no results from badvista.org itself appear.
So I did a little testing. I checked the results at google.com, yahoo.com, ask.com, and live.com. You can see from the screenshots that there does seem to be a problem.
Is it deliberate? No way to know I suppose, though to their credit if you search for "badvista.fsf.org", you will get some (rather odd-looking) results. So perhaps this is some kind of technical problem with the interaction between their search bots and our site.
I heard Microsoft had a big run in with the open source community - apparently Microsoft are saying the Linux makers have stolen their 'ideas'. but I ask you, what ideas? what has Microsoft ever done that's new?
Digg Topic
Tag topic on On del.icio.us
Technorati Search
Post to Slashdot
Let Microsoft know they need to fix their search engine
