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Competitors Cry Foul At Windows XP, 2K Service Packs
caudron writes "According to an article at ZDNet, a trade group partly funded, not surprisingly, by Microsoft's competitors is claiming that WinXP SP1 and Win2k SP3 contain 6 separate violations of both the letter and spirit of the proposed DOJ Settlement. Equally unsurprising, Microsoft disagrees with them. And so the Case-That-Wouldn't-Die drags ever onward."
Yes, clearly there should be options to disable the standard Windows GUI APIs as well.
Yes, I'm waiting to replace my WinXP GUI with the "CDE theme." I prefer clunky over productive.
> "ProComp said Microsoft's second violation is that Service Pack 1 neglects to provide Start Menu access to the middleware control, and doesn't include a short-cut icon to the control on the desktop"
Umm, for at least the W2k SP3, the link is on my start menu, right above the windows update link.
It 'resides' in the add/remove programs applet. Makes sense to me.
BTW, I don't want anything else on my desktop, assholes. A link to install/configure netscape would please me about as a much as a link to a free trial version of AOL.
>"Everything about 'Set Program Access and Defaults' says consumers are unwelcome here," the developer said. "It's a barren place, compared to the rest of Windows XP, bereft of simple instructions or extended Help"
What the hell? Have they seen it? It couldn't be simpler! Click the option button next to the one you want. Jeezuz.
> ProComp noted that the time for retrieval, as stated by Microsoft, would be 1.25 hours over a standard dial-up connection
And it'd be 2 hours if they had to include a 10 meg instuctional video on how to fuck^h^h^h fix up your system with netscape. The fact is you can get it.
They also claim you need internet explorer to download it. Not true (well partially, for the 'dynamic' version you may) I downloaded the networked install (100 meg or so) with lynx.
> the Windows 2000 version "is substantially less intuitive than (the one) in Windows XP."
Windows 2000 is an office/pro OS, designed to be administrated by tech-savvy people. Windows XP is for your grandma to check her e-mail and cat breeding websites. No duh it's less intuitive. Do they want the dancing paperclip to help them click the option buttons?
I mean MS could have been real jerks here. They could have made the options read "1) Kick ass Internet Explorer - 2) Slow ass piece of incompatible shit from the retards at Netscape"
I'm not in favor of any MS monopoly, but these whiney special interest groups spend more time dictating how I should use my computer than MS does.
All Sun & Netscape seem to do is sue people to create an environment for their software. If they paid the coders half what they pay their lawyers, they'd have nothing to bitch about.
I lose respect for groups who don't know enough to shut up when they've won.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
SUN now just strikes me as that kid on the play ground who constantly screams "Im going to tell". I hated that kid. I know SUN is hell bent for leather on taking out MS, but for the love of God man show some back-bone and do it right! Move in on their turff with superiour products and give them black eye. Dont go running to the teacher like a little wussy-boy trying to get them in trouble. They'll just pound the crap out of you for it after school.
Hence why the CLR SUCKS!!! C# was designed to be like Java and run on any system, provided you have the CLR. However, the CLR is ONLY offered for Windows machines. You couldn't get it if you wanted, for linux, BSD, Solaris, whatever...