i had the pleasure to see a corporate windows laptop in action recently. the amount of official spyware on it that enables oversight is astonishing, and it doe

i had the pleasure to see a corporate windows laptop in action recently. the amount of official spyware on it that enables oversight is astonishing, and it doesn't really function offline (at least during boot it definitely wants to fetch some stuff off the mothership). it also works just as well as you could imagine -- once somehow the 'delete' key got logically stuck, perhaps through a remote access facility, and the user sat there in shock as outlook kept deleting the mail. also, the constant prompts to 'urgently' close the business software for an update... so a return to thin clients seems to be a healthy direction to me. (i'll just keep using my linux laptop).