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MS Exec Testifies In Favor of OS Manipulation
Niscenus writes: "The NYTimes, where free registration is required, reports that a Microsoft VP, Christopher Jones, explains that Microsoft must be allowed to prevent competitors' programmes from being installed for the consumer's best interest. Most interesting quote: 'In his written testimony, Mr. Jones said the states' proposals would confuse consumers, enabling competitors to cover up icons like the "Start" button on the Windows desktop screen that consumers use to navigate and even allowing a competing operating system like Linux to start up instead of Windows.' Any dualboot LiLo user who learned they can't defrag the hard way can understand this ..."
...that some of you may have thought of as well. I propose we stop caring about Microsoft and it's bullshit and instead work to make Linux (as a whole) better. Seriously. I've heard this before, and I've also heard people rally behind it - and yet I still see no action.
Instead of posting stories about Microsoft and its gayness, why don't we post stories about ~gasp~ Linux! I say we all ignore this thread and all others that may come our way that focus on Microsoft. Let us focus on the "Linux Community" - that will destroy Microsoft's monopoly far more efficiently than the judicial system ever dreamed of.
We wave the flag of freedom as we conquer and invade.
I've used WindowsME and there's NO WAY to cover up the START menu with an icon. That's fucking bullshit. I don't know why people let these lying pricks get away with saying that. Even if it were true, you can ALWAYS press the start menu button (now available on all Keyboards that come w/ OEMs).
I love the part about, "even allowing a competing operating system like Linux to start up instead of Windows". Please, there's no reason to think that's bad except from MS' exclusive point of view where good means it makes them money. There is no impairment of function by allowing users to start up into another OS.
When MS says they're doing this stuff to benefit the consumer, its pure fucking bullshit.
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I don't know about you other people, but I'd support Microsoft. Sure, they overcharge massively, and aren't very secure and everything before and after Windows 2000 is buggy, but I enjoy the features that MS has integrated into the OS on a daily basis.
Let's look at a few.
MS Office 2000 integrating into your context menu and adding advanced indexing features, that have saved me time finding Office docs I had no idea of the name.
MSIE 6 image autoresizing, and the small floating toolbar above images to save, e-mail to someone else, resize, etc. This has allowed me to make MSIE my primary image *viewer* instead of Photoshop which takes insanely longer to load. For editing of course, I still use PS or PSP, but I don't have to load 300+ plugins to look at the latest picture of some computer hardware, a digital pic from my friend, or other stuff.
Outlook and Word's integration together has also been very time-saving for me. I do a lot of my word documenting with Outlook open-What do you know, Outlook preloads a background process of Winword.exe that pops up the instant you want it. No loading there-one load, not too. Sure it eats a few megs of RAM but big deal, there's more.
I've used MSN Messanger on occasion, and MS Passport greatly simplifed my life. I could check my Hotmail e-mail automatically, which I'd never od if it wasn't for the MSN feature of being able to do it automatically.
People make out MS to be the devil, but their integrations have made computers simpler to use for new users and faster to use for powerful users. You just have to accept that you're running WINDOWS (I don't have a problem, but some people here do.)