Security Issue for Lenovo Laptops
Lenovo bundled adware that has a horrible security vulnerability. This impacts Lenovo branded laptops (although reportedly not Thinkpad) sold since at least October, although there are reports of lapt...
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LANShark42 wrote:
If that is the case, I'm all the more perplexed by your statement regarding IBM "failing" in the PC marketplace.
I think it's commonly believed that IBM did not do well in the PC marketplace over time. They dominated the consumer market for a while in the 80's, but started losing ground to the clones because they refused to license their architecture. They went from 75% to 25% market share in the consumer market in the 80's and they lost control of the industry they helped create. They continued to compete in the business market, but they're entirely out of hardware now so that says a lot.
The same thing happened to Word Perfect with word processing and Novell with networking - once dominant and now gone.
LANShark42 wrote:Are you reading the same messages I'm reading? AsheGuy described the recent actions as "insidious" - hard to see how that's sympathetic.
But it might explain your sympathetic viewpoint and forgiveness of these large companies atrocities.
