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What's Microsoft Up To?
So, today's one of those days when every bit of news is dominated by Microsoft. To spare you six different stories about the Borg, we'll assimilate them all into this one. You have seen the stupid Passport hole in an earlier story; also the iLoo, although that hasn't stopped you from submitting stories about it, oh no. New news: a report paid for by Microsoft shows that Windows is a better server than Red Hat. A class-action suit has been filed charging that MSN and Best Buy combined to scam customers. The WINHEC conference is ongoing - Steve Ballmer says DRM is an opportunity, not a prison, the Xbox is going to be your home communications center, Wired talks about how hardware will be changed to imprison users, and once you're locked in to Microsoft you get to pay more each year. An article describes why user desktops are locked down. Oh, and here's another on DRM, just because.
I agree. I usually dont comment on articles, but the childish nature of the article caused me to actually make a comment. Is this a news site for nerds or somewhere that editors in a bad mood are allowed to post whatever they want with whatever slant they want. Grow up...
There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Heh, pots and kettles, eh?
That's unlike michael!
He would NEVER do something like... say... insult those that indirectly line his wallet, or yell at users. That wouldn't be professional!
Oh wait, the story reads:
although that hasn't stopped you from submitting stories about it, oh no
Lets face it folks. This guy just doesn't know how to be professional or mature.
And before anyone argues that I'm being immature, I'm not being paid to write this post... he is being paid to be an editor at a news site.
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Could not agree more. How pathetic. Can't beat 'em? Then beat 'em up. Make fun of them. Point and laugh. Repeat the same tripe over and over as if it somehow related to the interests of the slashdot community. Bashing MS has become a full time undertaking here.
XP is better for the average desktop than Linux. Period.
I don't understand the motivations of the slashdot editors with regard to MS future direction... Do they want MS to take a DIFFERENT direction? If so, what is it and do they regulary communicate this to MS? Are they posting this criticism in an attempt to get MS to take action so that XP/Longhorn is even BETTER than Linux next time around? If so, aren't they sort of digging their own grave wrt Linux vs. MS? Your bashing of MS only serves to make MS products better, but does nothing for the Linux/alternatives. Is that the slashdot editors' goal?
Bash, bash, bash. Come on. Be a bit more constructive. Got any stories about positive directions Linux is taking lately wrt the desktop or competing with MS? Oh, yeah, there was that one story yesterday about how open source projects don't interact very well. Beautiful. Just beautiful, guys.
MS has whooped Linux's butt on the desktop. Get over it. Was always such and will always be so. Why? Because of the attitude of the Linux community as perfectly displayed in this slashdot story.
If MS decided to scrutinize the open source community as slashdot does to MS, my guess is that they would have a field day with bugs, incompatible software, inconsistent interfaces, driver issues from hell, etc. Let's hope they don't folks.
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus
News is good. Give us news. Spare us your opinions, or at least use some restraint. Not everyone here hates Microsoft, you know...
You started off with a valid point but then troll it up yourself with statements like "XP is better for the average desktop than Linux. Period." and "MS has whooped Linux's butt on the desktop.".
Reality is that if MS was whopping Linux's butt on the desktop, Linux market share on the desktop would be shrinking, not growing. MS is losing market share to Linux on the desktop, albeit slowly, and if that trend continues, it will not "always be so". Also, in case you haven't noticed, MS *does* scrutinize the open source community, what do you think a report comparing W2003 to Linux/Samba is???
MSN's popularity is completely based on changing the users homepage to MSN with each update and stealing 404 traffic.
You are either stupid or just a troll. No update I have *ever* done to *any* of my windows machines has automatically set my home page to anything MSN.
Since updates are automatic for WinXP, the number of folks using MSN as their homepage will explode as folks retire their Win95/98/ME boxes.
More FUD. The automatic updates are an option, not a requirement, and can be disabled. It is true, on WinXP's initial install, the home page is set to MSN, it is very easy to change and as we all learned earlier, it stays how you set it. I also have never had MSN 'hijack' my 404's. If I go to a web page and it's not there, I get a big error message. Know why? I disabled the option that has IE automagically try to search for whatever it was you were looking for.
Do us all a favor - spread your FUD elsewhere.
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Stupid people make stupid little people.
bork bork bork!
"New news: a report paid for by Microsoft shows that Windows is a better server than Red Hat. "
What a pantload!
Windows is a superior server for serving up viruses.
I was looking through my firewall logs this morning and there were hundreds of entries such as this.
"Date: 05/08 12:52:09
Name: MS-SQL Worm propagation attempt
Priority: 2
Type: Misc Attack
IP info: 12.103.126.250:1059 -> xx.xx.xx.xx:1434"
Get that M$ crap out of my face. M$ is tra$h.
M$ is nothing but VIRUS CITY.....
Got windows? You've got Virus!
I just made a payment of $25 for 5.000 impressions so that my comments might carry more weight with you and, more importantly, in this "intelligent forum". Fuck, what do you know, I did put my money where my mouth is! I feel I am, now, fucking justified to write that michael is an idiot and that idiots like you who put people in their foes lists just because they don't agree with their opinion are worse than all the crapflooders and goatse linkers of /. YMMV, of course...
I would recomend an English course, btw, fucking bad English you have there...
Mother is the best bet and don't let Satan draw you too fast.
In other news, the once monolithic software giant Microsoft has been forced to make good on prior rulings by the US supreme court, which declared Microsoft an illegal monopoly and a threat to national security. The groundbreaking trial lasted three months, as witness after witness presented evidence on the 874 claims made against the corporation, ranging from freelance programmers whos works had been stolen, to governments and schools who had been forced to submit to Microsofts "bully tactics" with software licensing.
The judgement was effective immediately: All trading by Microsoft is to cease
and the company is to be completely dissolved. At 9am eastern time, all assets held by Microsoft and subsidiaries, including reserves, were confiscated and distributed to the beneficiaries of the Gates Foundation and other charities.
All patents and other Intellectual Property owned by Microsoft Corporation and its subsidiaries which were issued under the old "stop-people-using-it" system are to be released to the Free Software Foundation under the new GPL Patent, preventing the withholding the technology from other developers.
The board of directors and lead programmers of Microsoft, now unemployable in the technology industry, have been offered positions in parking lots and soup kitchens around the country. All other employees have been given redundancy of 1 years salary, and some have already started rebuilding their former businesses which were bought out or squashed by Microsoft over the last twenty years.
This news follows eight years of steadily dwindling interest in Microsoft, as the corporation has not managed to adapt to new markets, insisting on an archaic business model. Their policies on such software as their legacy flagship "Windows" has steadily been replaced with the Open Source business model. Their latest offering, "Windows SX", released six months ago, sold a mere 400 copies.
William Henry Gates III, who has been under house arrest since June for attempting to bribe the Chief Justice with a large Hawiian island, was unavailable for comment.
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