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   From: ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand   
      
   In message <6oadnQVhLvUIhI7QnZ2dnUVZ8nudnZ2d@brightview.co.uk>, Phil Da   
   Lick! wrote:   
      
   > My current pet hate of microsoft's is their stupid move towards   
   > insisting that all PCs are supplied with recovery disks/partitions   
   > rather than install disks.   
      
   Because people were selling off the install discs as though they were extra   
   copies of Windows.   
      
   > In 99.99999% of cases that recovery disk that came with the PC will also   
   > include badly written, totally unneccessary shitty apps the OEM rams down   
   > their customers' throats in exchange for a kickback from the apps   
   > creators. I've even got two apps on the wife's HP W7 laptop that request   
   > admin privs every time she logs on. Total ineptitude once again from the   
   > Beast.   
      
   That’s an inevitable result of the whole proprietary software model, it’s   
   not specifically Microsoft’s fault.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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