An Advocacy Story: Cloning Bootable USB Sticks for the Audience

Jul 25, 2008, 17:00 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Hung Chao-Kuei)

[ Thanks to Chao-Kuei Hung for this link. ]

"So a few months ago I started writing a perl script mk-boot-usb that slightly simplifies creating bootable usb sticks and greatly simplifies cloning usb sticks it creates. Putting an entire OS plus many apps on a usb stick is certainly not a technical challenge for Microsoft, but it's something that Microsoft would hate to do. They will simply refuse to compete on this front unless they drastically change their business strategy or even business model. This can be a nice example of the "difference strategy"."

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