Current date is 11.9.2009
We have left 2008 behind us and are slowly moving to 2010
You have totally lost me ... who mentioned 2008? I said Norton lost the plot 8 years ago (around 2001) and stayed lost for a long time ..
If you and we would follow your way of thinking,
remembering Win Me, you and we wouldn't be running Windows in the first place.
Inconsistency is a human property, so we forgive you.
Microsoft have produced some really bum products ... ME actually won worst ten Microsoft Products ever. Well ... I was never silly enough to go near Windows ME ... I pitie da fools who did ......
My honest opinion on this is that finally with Windows 7, Microsoft have released their first mature O/S since Windows 2000 Professional.
And yes - I still run that on some machines. I skipped XP completely until I needed to install it for a single piece of software and had Vista pre-installed on a laptop but that quickly got Ubuntu instead - and the laptop actually functioned
so my logic is use what works well.
Crazy B
I wasn't talking about MS products or what you do or do not use.
What I was saying is this.
You judge Norton on how it was 8 yrs ago.
Like 99% of the people who gave their 20cents on Norton on this forum.
It's like a broken record.
To say it bluntly, people who judge something they actually never tried, contribute to 50% of the posts on any forum.
And personally I think it makes them look silly.
You're lucky it was only Norton you bashed without any valid argument,
because had it been about Win7, the "you bloody troll posts" would fill this thread so fast you couldn't keep up with reading them.
I didn't like Norton products for the same reasons you gave, but I actually gave some versions a try before passing a judgment.
After trying NIS 2009 I thought it was such a brilliant product, I even decided to buy it.
NIS 2010 is even better. It has the smallest footprint of any security suite.
And you hardly ever notice it's there, as it should be.
If you remember Norton as bloatware, I can only conclude you haven't been paying attention for too long.
So far there has been only one guy on this entire forum who had genuine criticism on Norton 2010, who had actually tried it.
About Windows 2000 being the last mature product before Win7 came around, I would have to disagree with you also.
Windows 2003 made Windows 2000 look like a joke.
Ask any corporate system administrator.
I operated on both in a corporate environment.
Win2000 had so many security holes they just stop filling them,
and MS decided to focus their energy on 2003 which was an excellent product.
Greetings.
. How funny!
