>> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 16:01:45 +0100, Henrik Wahlstedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Well, no wonder why Microsoft already are deduplicating their > Systemstate backups with System Recovery Tool, SRT, an add on to > DPM2007. > I wont argue how well they do this but at least they try. Mmm. Do stupid wasteful things in the published APIs, and unroll them in a proprietary tool. I'll bet a nickel the DPM folks have access to the internal docs. It makes me think of the policy MS had on office apps: the windows APIs they published were known to be hobbled, and the MS applications crew (Office, etc) got access to the undocumented APIs which actually functioned with reasonable efficiency. I wonder what percentage of MS personell are actively engaged in creating chaff and obstacles for the software ecosystem around the OS. Someone is a wizard at PR, to convince all those folks they're not doing negative work. If they weren't, the suicide rate in Redmond would be far worse. - Allen S. Rout
