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Microsoft At Middle Age
gordyf writes "The Seattle Times has an interesting article concerning Microsoft's current position in the market. It describes how its customers and parners are reacting to its heavy-handed tactics, and how 'you can point to Linux being one of the major drivers for this decade.' An interesting read."
Can't get it up anymore
FP
But what do I know. I'm just looking for anonymous gay sex.
Digital Teenz has a good picture of microsoft in its teenage years.
I tend to see Mac OS X being more of a driver than Linux in the future. Mac OS X is a single OS, as opposed to a set of OSes that may or may not work together. Also, OS X also has the backing of a long established company that will probably be around in the foreseeable future. OS X is also a BSD, which is a much better OS than Linux. Lastly, Apple is adopting a less proprietary model and much of the operating system is open source, so many of the benefits of a completely open source OS are there too.
Maybe if it worked and hackers couldn't get into it so easy. Gimmie a break.
a fucking moon colony? Are you serious? With $50 billion dollars a lot more useful items could be researched, designed, and implemented.
Yeah, great, so you can have a room w/a view that you see nothing better than if you were in a cinderblocked room.
This post was FAR from interesting. The $50 billion should be funding AIDS, Cancer, and Mad Cow disease research. It should be funding hundreds of thousands of kids to goto school. It should be solving the Minnesota State Budget deficit so I don't lose pay raises for 24 months and so I don't lose my benefits.
That's what the money should be going to. Not the fucking moon.
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Free software will be around as long as there are gullible, bored, wealthy college kids to do the work. But to say they're losing ground is ridiculous. There's still nothing on the market other than possible OSX that compares to Win 2K/XP for value. Nothing is even close.
good call all around ---
try running your RedHat 8.0 on a 486, or better yet, an early Pentium 1 (with KDE or GNOME). Please post results.
We're like rats, in some experiment! -- George Costanza
HAHA YOU R TEH FUNNEY
i will make vague joke with nothing to back me up too
i hear suit say "lunix is free so must be worthless"
but lunix is WORTH MORE THAN WINDOWS WHEN YUO CONSIDER WHAT IT CAN DO
HAHA where aer my +5 bonus
Uh, really? Please give an example of an important programm that is written in C++ and exists on most installations.
Windows XP is less user friendly than Windows 2000 or KDE, to someone who's used it for a year
Might as well just post this, because it has the same meaning:
I am a freeking moron who cannot figure out how to use the simplest user interface on the most popular desktop operating system.
Tell me, is this something that you are proud to admit?
sucks
Loser. XP kick's 2k's butt.