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Microsoft Expert Witness Stumbles

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the everyone-feel-bad-for-stu dept.

parking_god writes "MIT prof Stuart Madnick, testifying on MS's behalf, was caught out twice when a government attorney asked him to name an OS (other than one made by Microsoft) where the browser couldn't be removed. Madnick also faltered on several other questions." Basically he doesn't understand what GNOME and KDE are, and since we're all holier-than-thou know-it-alls around here, we might as well laugh at Microsoft's expense ;)

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  1. Re:IE is just a shell by opkool · · Score: 3, Redundant

    Have you ever heard of Win98Lite?

    It is a program that erradicates IExplorer from Windows. Windows is completely usable. You have to get another web browser (Netscape, Mozilla...) and a file amnager (the old on from Win95... or use Midnight Commander ontop a Cygwin bash shell).

    I used back then, to get a P1666 no-mmx with 32MB of RAM to run Windows 98. Before Win98Lite, it was slow as.... as WinXP. After using Win98Lite, it was usable again, moderately fast... a cool college machine. Until SuSE 5.3 got its way into it, of course *grin*

    More information can be found here

  2. Re:Microsoft maybe not as funny as you think by Malcontent · · Score: 3, Redundant

    "It would take an unimaginable sum of money for me to sell out and lose the respect of my peers."

    Well lucky for you MS has unimaginable sums of money.

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    War is necrophilia.