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Bloat and the hidden costs

Posted Jan 31, 2012 9:22 UTC (Tue) by Fowl (subscriber, #65667)
In reply to: Bloat and the hidden costs by BenHutchings
Parent article: An LCA 2012 summary

Just a minor nit; while a system like that may be adequate to run XP "gold", add in SP3 then combine with some modern apps (or modern web sites even in IE6) and it's painful.

If you're not savy enough to run without anti-virus, you may as well give up.

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