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A Look at Microsoft's Regulatory Problems
jrexilius writes: "The Economist has a great article on the state of the EUs anti-trust case against microsoft, background, and future troubles with google. One interesting comment was 'Microsoft is preparing to use its dominance in web-browser and operating-system software to promote itself in yet another separate market--search engines this time'."
God Bless America
God Bless America , with the worst crime levels in the first world
God Bless America , where "democracy" means a rich, white male as Presiden t
God Bless America , the biggest consumer of the world's natural resources
God Bless America , where "freedom of speech" means race-hate groups like KKK
God Bless America , and its massive and ever-growing poverty gap
God Bless America , with the highest obesity levels in the developed world
God Bless America , all its appalling "sitcoms" with no grasp of irony
God Bless America , because corporations should be allowed to run amok
God Bless America , wasting billions to attack foreign countries
God Bless America , and thank God I don't have to live there.
I consider Google to be a has-been at this point. Let's face it: 1) it no longer has the usefulness it once did, due to all the spam in it. 2) Google has so far failed to do anything constructive about it. 3) Google's new technologies just aren't that good anymore. Look at Froogle--I have yet to see it perform as well as things like PriceWatch. 4) Google is losing business left and right--most prominent example: Yahoo is now planning to dump Google. 5) Although many (including myself) have applauded Google in the past for sticking to its core competency of searching, it also means they have failed to take advantage of the synergies possible in a full-blown portal, like Yahoo.
I think it is high time Google either get its act together quick, or be finished off by someone who wants to do better, like Microsoft, or Alltheweb.
I've tried Linux and it's great for a user created OS. However it still has long way to go before it's ready for prime time in the desktop area.
I choose to use XP, because it suits my needs. Don't look down upon me or insult me because my choice isn't the same as yours.
FUCK YOU ASSHOLE ! ! !
You must be some sort of lawyer. Perfectly reasonable???? its like saying "after all, Musillini made the trains run on time."
To become a fully-fledged Yank, you'll need to get a weapon. Americans think that having more killing machines magically makes their country safer, and it helps them to walk around saying "I'll put a cap in your ass". Even though the concept of "no guns = no gun-related crimes" is alien to the average Yank, it'll give you a false sense of security in this country with the highest crime rates in the developed world.
As an anti-American troll myself, may I suggest that you remove this point or at least change it? It makes no sense to point out that many Americans own guns. It will only make them feel proud, strong or some other shit you can't understand as a civilized European. If you have to include the gun thing, do it in such a way that it makes clear that someone who owns a gun is probably too much of a wuss and too fat to defend himself with his bare hands. State that martial arts are much cooler than guns and you'll actually get to use them if someone pisses you off in school.
You also should include some ridiculous claim about sex. For example, say that according to statistics, every second American watches gay hairy midget porn on a regular basis. It may be bullshit, but if you do it right, they'll get angry because they think the world doesn't respect them. The patriots over there perceive themselves as some kind of religious, clean Aryan blonde superhero save-the-world type of person, you know.
Unfortunately, but not indefinitely, the USA's weapons of mass destruction make it the most powerful country in the world (militarily).
Oh, and DEFINITELY remove that point. It serves no purpose in your troll at all. Most patriots will have their hands on their cocks and masturbate furiously by the time they finish reading that sentence. They won't even read the rest of your insightful article.
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before. Then the bird said, 'Batman touched my junk liberally'
"This is exactly what REALLY ticked me off with them (in the IT adm position no less). I put up with their marginal quality on the desktop up until this point. Sure, part of me still wished I had gone OS/2 there as well, but I digress. I certainly still remember buying PC's that I had to pay the Windows tax on ... even though they still run Linux to this day (except one actually which is one of the Netware servers)."
So you think it's is right to attack MS with regulation because you don't like the deals they make with OEMs? You people make me sick. You post that you believe in freedom, as long as it's your freedom. However, you have no problem taking away someone elses freedom, as long as you don't like what he's doing. You act like the patriot act puts the US in the third world catagory, but ignore the fact that monopoly regulation is a far worse abuse of freedom than anything in the patriot act. Any true libertarian would call you what you are, hypocrites who'll trample over the rights of anyone who gets in your way.