Find of The Day: Obama Adds 11MB to the Size of Everybody’s Windows Vista Install
Posted in Random by Dan at 9:37 am
I was skeptical when I read the headline, but this has to be the craziest Microsoft update yet. Microsoft has issued a 56MB update for all Windows Vista users that add FIVE WORDS to the internal dictionary.
That’s an awful lot of megs, to be sure - just how many words are we talking about here? Microsoft explains:
The words “Friendster,” “Klum,” “Nazr,” “Obama,” and “Racicot” are not recognized when you check the spelling in Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008.
56MB for Five WORDS, I defy someone to look me straight in the eye and say Vista is NOT bloated. Oh, and by the way it’s an “Important” update. PSH!
6 Comments, Comment or Trackback
annon
I think maybe that is not the whole list, and just examples, do you realy want to hear someone speak 50megs of words?
Plus there is the installer, probably a all for one installer that is disposable incase you forgot to add a key part to the dictionary.
And at least with windows you can get rid of “bloat”, unlike mac where you never know whats gona f up your system if you touch it.
Jul 11th, 2008
Josep
that’s the beauty of the mac. you never now what’s going on and it just works.
if you are that type of guy who uses ResEdit to edit resources then you should know what are you touching.
Jul 11th, 2008
chad
@Anon
ummmmmm foundation for mac is unix… with coco interfacing and mac shiney flashy on top. Your talking about editing windows to and knowing wtf you’re doing is complete rubbish.
RegEdit > HKEY_LOCAL_WTFEVER>SYSTEM>HUGELISTFOSHIT>MORESHIT>random_key_string_that_makes _little_sense : 1
If you call that knowing what you’re doing you’re sadly mistaken. Get on a linux install and edit some system config settings… at the command line… in a /etc/conf file…. or manage and modify remote file systems using a unix terminal…. THEN tell me about knowing wtf your system is doing.
you’re living a lie sir.
rm -rf /anon/*
g’day
Jul 11th, 2008
tom
@chad
“rm -rf /anon/*”
i see what you did there…
Jul 13th, 2008
annon
Its annon with 3 “n”s
Jul 16th, 2008
Chowder
@ chad…
Can I take credit for putting your command on a shirt…
rm -rf /stupid_people/*
Jul 17th, 2008
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