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Microsoft Loses Delay Appeal
cheesethegreat was the first to submit that Microsoft has lost their appeal to delay their case by requesting a review with the Supreme Court. We mentioned the appeal a few weeks ago. The link doesn't say much more than that the appeals court denied the delay.
And the result of all this R&D is ... Clippy!!!
Yes... but in order to actually open the bundle and see the contents you have to agree to the EULA which requires you to find in favor of MS for all criminal and civil cases.
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When I first looked at the headline I read "Microsoft loses daily appeal"
:p
Seems like that one would work too
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Bryan Samis
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Aha! You've discovered the plan of our Microsoft Masters! When the great XP is launched, our Judge-O-Trons will begin the process of recalling it, driving thousands of Lusers to CompUSA in hopes of getting a copy of the "dangerous and highly illegal" XP! It'll be more popular than Napster!
I gotta get a tight tension on...
Excellent idea. I say we call them Micros~1, Micros~2, and Micros~3.
They do R&D? What's that, in Redmond Speak? Reconnoiter & Dominate?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
A Microsoft employee was found walking down the streets of Bethesda, Maryland. More information to come.
A delay would have put this trial off by what, a couple of weeks?
Maybe longer. But the important point is that they are trying to put it off in order to prevent justice. If they can get XP into the market place before a new remedy is pronounced, it gives them a big advantage.
This will be a 3-year long trial, while Microsoft calls in experts
This is what Microsoft wants, not what is good. It is good that the court isn't going to let MS stall this out forever.
Microsoft...., trying to protect the money that they fought so hard to earn
trying to protect the money they fought so hard to extort from us. Everyone is so happy to pay higher prices for lower quality.
We're never going to see a just resolution to this
Sure we could. Nuke the MS campus.
so what does it matter if they aren't delayed a few weeks?
Because MS might be able to rush XP out the door to further remove competition and prevent innovation.
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Our father who art in Redmond,
Microsoft be thy name.
Thy monopoly come, thy chokehold be complete,
throughout the earth as it is in the US.
Give us this day, our daily license renewal.
And forgive us our bug reports,
as we forgive our system crashes.
And lead us not into competition,
but deliver us from innovation.
For thine is the control, and the power,
and the greed forever.
Amen.
Those who would give up liberty in exchange for security and DRM should switch to Microsoft Palladium!
Why am I so instantly reminded of the "political officer" in Hunt for Red October, you know, the one that gets killed in the first 15 minutes?
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan
From way above:
Microsoft spends more than $5.3 Billion on R&D per year.
And now we know where it goes - Flying Lawyer Monkeys. Or maybe it goes to research into a different advanced type of lawyer?
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
They never had any as far as I'm concerned.
The Supremes?
I wasn't aware that Diana Ross had anything against Microsoft.
Kinda makes it sound like XP is some sort of evil master plan instead of some grand improvement on Windows.
I can picture it now (swirly effect)
Steve: Master Bill, the Justice dept. is coming to attack us for our evil marketing practices and thwart our release of XP.
Bill: Call my Flying Lawyer Monkeys. (speaks to head lawyer monkey)This Justice department *must* be stopped. Take your Flying Lawyer Monkeys and hold them off until Oct 25 (Dec 21:). If we can't get an appeal, then make sure we can get a delay. Because after Oct 25, XP will be released and our power solidified. Then the world will be powerless against us.
Fly, my little Flying Lawyer Monkeys, fly!
/*drunk.. fix later*/
yeah, they can always have thier opening statment last 5 weeks :)
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
Instead of separating MS into an OS division and a software division, which just creates two monopolies, why doesn't the DOJ just break them into three identical companies. Each company will hold the same IP rights and can sell and market anything currently being done by MS. Make three companies all selling the same thing and you really will help consumers by forcing giants to compete with each other, thereby driving prices down and reliability up.
Of course, then there would be 3 MS's to hate.
I gotta get a tight tension on...
Fly, my little Flying Lawyer Monkeys, fly!
Going by Microsoft's track record, they'll probably work as well as C. M. Burns' monkeys.
Eee, EEEE, Thud!
Bill: Continue the research.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
But in this case, the glove not only fits, but it comes bundled with the bloody knife and bodies.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar