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Paul Thurrott Turns into A 13-Year-Old

In Windows Weekly 66, Paul Thurrott turns into a whiny 13-year-old. Thurrott feels that he is the one to defend Microsoft against some mainstream journalists. The argument is valid, but essentially Thurrott debunked himself for not being a Microsoft (original) Defender (not to be confused with Microsoft Windows Defender, the anti-spyware software. Thanks clintthewookie for the corrections.).

Close to the 18 minute mark of the podcast (note to Leo Laporte: “netcast” term is lame), Thurrott mentions that with 1 terabyte hard drive and 4GB RAM, it is essentially OK to have “bloated software” just because the resources is there. Gee, that sounds like Thurrott echoing Bill Gates.

A little bit after, Thurrott was saying: “The version of Mac OS X that was available when Windows 95 shipped…..”

Leo Laporte did not even catch it waht ever the reason was.

Series of Tubes to Paul Thurrott: There was no Mac OS X back in 1995. Not even in 1998. Don’t you remember your MacBook Core Solo?

Windows Weekly 66 (excerpts)

2 Replies to “Paul Thurrott Turns into A 13-Year-Old”

  1. Actually, I believe the software is Windows Defender. It use to be Microsoft Anti-spyware…

  2. Paul’s point about “bloated software” was right. People complain about “bloat” but it is just space taken up on hard disk to ensure Windows can support all legacy technologies and features. It is no great shakes given how commonplace huge disk drives are these days. I really can’t see your problem.

    If the “bloat” were affecting the performance of Windows that would be a different story. Vista does have performance issues but they are nothing to do with the size of its footprint on disk.

    Because Paul Thurrott thinks that he is obligated to defend Microsoft regardless of the facts. I’m not saying that I agree or disagree with the point of view, but Thurrott always thinks that he is the only person in the world who knows the truth. I did say that the argument is valid, but Thurrott should stop pretending that he is not the original Microsoft Defender.

    A Lot of times he took credit for something that other people discovered first.

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