[clug] Google compared to latest Microsoft evilness

[Boyd]

This is not new, and it is not news either - 2003 had the same (or very
similar) limitations. If you read the doco (or the textbooks) beforehand you
wouldn't be surprised about this.

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Jason Stokes <glasper9 at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

>
> The standard edition of Windows Server 2008 is arbitrarily limited to 32 GB
> of memory.  If you need more, you have to upgrade to to the enterprise
> edition.
>
> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001283.html
>
> Reminds me of the Windows XP firewall, which is arbitrarily limited to
> blocking incoming ports, not outgoing ones.  Not that blocking outgoing
> ports is all that useful, but simply blocking port 25 by unauthorized
> programs by default would have caused bot-spammers a serious headache.  Or
> the endless editions of Office, where if you want all the features, you have
> to pay an outrageous price.
>
> Whatever you can say about Google, it's hard to imagine them selling a
> deliberately crippled product like this, if only because they are the
> up-and-coming competition and they couldn't get away with it.
>
>
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