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Linked List: February 4, 2007

Sunday, 4 February 2007

Sorry Jim, but other than the first 12 seconds of the game, the Bears pretty much stunk. Has there ever been a Super Bowl winner that played as bad as the Colts that still won the game so easily?

Best commercial: Letterman’s promo with Oprah.

David Maynor Supports Gates’s Newsweek Interview ★

David Maynor on Bill Gates’s interview with Steven Levy in Newsweek:

The Mac community is up in arms. Bill Gates gave an interview where his fights back against some Apple’s misleading and deceptive marketing. …

Take a seat, hold your hats because I am about to make a declaration: Windows Vista is more secure than OSX 10.4.8. Anybody that tells you anything different should immediately be treated with the same disdain as finding a parking ticket on your car.

This may well be true. The problem is that Gates didn’t merely claim that Vista is more secure than Mac OS X. What Gates claimed is “Every single day, [security guys] come out with a total exploit, your [Mac] can be taken over totally.” And that’s just bullshit.

The outrage over Gates’s Newsweek interview has nothing to do with a knee-jerk reaction to the idea that Vista is more secure than Mac OS X.

The Tyranny of mouseover ★

Jeremy Keith on why those inane Snap previews suck:

This is the perfect example of something that should have been implemented like a Greasemonkey script: give users the choice and the power to activate this flashy feature. But don’t foist it on us and then claim it’s our responsibility to disable it.

Apple Recommends iTunes Users Not Upgrade to Vista Yet ★

Apple:

iTunes 7.0.2 may work with Windows Vista on many typical PCs. Apple recommends, however, that customers wait to upgrade Windows until after the next release of iTunes which will be available in the next few weeks.

(Via Fake Steve.)