mdlbear: (sureal time)
» Vista Speech Command exposes remote exploit | George Ou | ZDNet.com
The latest bit of entertainment from Microsoft is that if you have speech recognition turned on in Vista, your computer will blythly listen to whatever comes out of its own speakers. So you can create a sound file or a movie, put it on a website, and give commands to the computer of anyone stupid enough to be running Vista and speech recognition when they listen to it.

I'm waiting for somebody to combine this with Goodbye-Microsoft.com. There's a song in there somewhere, I fancy.

(From techdirt.com; spotted by [livejournal.com profile] mr_kurt.)
mdlbear: (kill bill)
Microsoft Vista is not an option
What it all comes down to is Microsoft is turning the screw on me too hard. I can't legitimately use its software without becoming a criminal or spending tens of thousands of dollars. If it gives me a truckload of free copies, I will still be spending the majority of my time on the phone with people in Bangalore typing in licence keys to stay legal.

It simply is not worth it anymore, I can't use Vista. Believe it or not, I was pretty neutral on XP, it did what I needed and usually worked in a mostly acceptable fashion. It has been mostly secure because I was not abjectly stupid. I had no reason to switch, but Microsoft has given me the choice of becoming a criminal or going to Linux. In a few weeks, I don't plan on looking back.
Admittedly, he appears to be a hardware reviewer -- not everybody swaps out their motherboard every couple of months, and their graphics card every couple of days. But a few upgrades per year aren't too unusual even in a household like mine where the tendency is to throw a machine into a kid's room and never see it again until the CPU fan dies from an over-accumulation of lint.

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