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Microsoft to Pay AOL $750M in Settlement
aoteoroa writes "Microsoft will pay $750 million to AOL Time Warner to settle an antitrust lawsuit filed by AOL on behalf of its subsidiary Netscape last year, the companies said Thursday.
At first blush the deal looks good, but I can't help but wonder how a deal that ties AOL to IE again will negatively impact my favorite web browser." Here's a news.com story that also covers it. Is the browser war over? If so, it sure was anticlimactic.
Its too bad that there arn't any winners here. Satan can pay Satan all he wants.
Foiled - but I'll get you next time, my pretty!!!
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WTF ?
I gave up opera in favor of IE just because I got sick of pages not rendering right in opera. Yes, I know it's not opera's fault, but guess what, assigning the blame to someone else doesn't magically make opera render right.
I mean, really, your bias is showing through here
Ok, I will admit to having a bias. I definitely like OS X, better than windows. I never in my life thought I would make that statement, because prior to OS X, I was not a big Mac fan.
I can see your point about large datasets in a list view, although windows is not super great about dealing with large datasets like this either. I know, because I work with huge amounts of data daily, and windows leaves much to be desired in that area. Just try deleting 10,000 files from a folder some time, and you'll know what I mean. If you do this through the gui, it will take somewhere in the neighborhood of an hour or more (on a 2 Ghz machine with 1 gig of Ram). Do it through the command line and this take less than five minutes, so the problem is definitely with the gui code.
Admittedly I haven't tried this specific example on OS X, for comparison. I guess my bias comes from using OS X and Windows (95, 98, Me , NT, 2K, XP) on an everyday basis. OS X is far more stable and responsive. Rarely does my mouse and keyboard simply stop responding for 10 seconds to do who the hell knows what on OS X, but this happens consistently on windows machines.
Of course there are many more issues to the OS than just the Widget Set, and maybe I unfairly painted the Windows Widgets, based on larger problems I have with Windows.
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"The destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn't." -John Galt
Spell-checking in textareas. No tpyos in this post!
Oops. Either you're being ironic or your forgot to turn on the spell checking.
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