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Microsoft: The Gatekeeper of the Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-read dept.

jeffy124 writes "C|net News.com is embarking on a seven day comprehensive report on how Microsoft is moving themselves into position to be The Gatekeeper Of The Internet through Windows XP. The first installment explains the basics of how this is going to happen: Reminders that last for days encouraging users to sign up for Passport, and how Windows will evenutally resemble services like AOL."

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  1. fast pissed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fastly pissed for all those out there
    who like real beer

  2. Bill Gates Is The Antichrist by polyp2000 · · Score: 0, Troll

    The more I hear stuff like this,
    the more I believe Microsoft is the brain child of
    Satan. Bill Gates has far to much power, and is taking far to many liberties.

    --
    Electronic Music Made Using Linux http://soundcloud.com/polyp
    1. Re:Bill Gates Is The Antichrist by gazbo · · Score: -1, Troll

      Subject: Bill Gates Is The Antichrist
      Uhhhhh huh. Whatever floats your boat.

      Body:
      The more I hear stuff like this, the more I believe Microsoft is the brain child of Satan.
      Riiiiight. Well, this is the usual /. crud (if this can't be called FUD, what can?)
      Bill Gates has far to much power, and is taking far to many liberties.
      Right. Now he's said something that isn't just a childish insult. A single sentence that says nothing new, just the usual 'Hold on, I don't like Microsoft'
      And yet it gets a +1 informative. Well, I don't feel very well informed by it.
      By this reckoning, I should get a +5 informative for this next line - stand back, it'll be a killer:
      Windows
      Bad start, I meant:
      Windoze is less good at stuff than what Linux^H^H^H^H^H L00nix is.
      Can I have some karma now, please?

    2. Re:Bill Gates Is The Antichrist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      ATTN: This is the way a self important,self righteous asshole likes to hear himself talk.

  3. Re:does not apply.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Btw.. have you noticed that NYT no longer works w/ lynx.. it works w/ konq etc but lynx stopped working a few days ago. I sent them email and not only had they *heard* of lynx they are actively working on fixing the problem. NYT is pretty badass in my book :)