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MS May Be Forced To Sell Stripped-Down OS In EU
An anonymous reader submits "According to this article at Infoworld, Microsoft may be forced to sell a stripped-down version of Windows in the EU as a result of antitrust rulings, unless a settlement is reached during the next month to six weeks." (See this post from last week for more background on the EU's antitrust proceedings.)
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So much for the full McMeal analogy. Now where's my Diet Pepsi?
The youth, returning to his mistress, hies,
And impudent in hope, with ardent eyes,
And beating breast, by the dear statue lies.
He kisses her white lips, renews the bliss,
And looks, and thinks they redden at the kiss;
He thought them warm before: nor longer stays,
But next his hand on her hard bosom lays:
Hard as it was, beginning to relent,
It seem'd, the breast beneath his fingers bent;
He felt again, his fingers made a print;
'Twas flesh, but flesh so firm, it rose against the dint:
The pleasing task he fails not to renew;
Soft, and more soft at ev'ry touch it grew;
Like pliant wax, when chasing hands reduce
The former mass to form, and frame for use.
He would believe, but yet is still in pain,
And tries his argument of sense again,
Presses the pulse, and feels the leaping vein.
Convinc'd, o'erjoy'd, his studied thanks, and praise,
To her, who made the miracle, he pays:
Then lips to lips he join'd; now freed from fear,
He found the savour of the kiss sincere:
At this the waken'd image op'd her eyes,
And view'd at once the light, and lover with surprize.
The Goddess, present at the match she made,
So bless'd the bed, such fruitfulness convey'd,
That ere ten months had sharpen'd either horn,
To crown their bliss, a lovely boy was born;
Paphos his name, who grown to manhood, wall'd
The city Paphos, from the founder call'd.
This would signify an interesting trend with MS; there is a slimmed version of XP in the works for 3rd-world countries. I wonder if these new stripped out versions would find use elsewhere such as in embedded machines.
ah crud
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
Too bad for you it doesn't have an integrated spell-checker.
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Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it's offtopic.
Yeah, we've got some strange moderators for this one...Especially when they(/he/she) can't read the article a few posts down. Mod funny, at least, if you're so eager to spend your points...
they weren't always free, dumbass. ask someone who was there before you start peeing in your fucking pants.
yes, you used to have to buy all of these things--editors, media players, web browsers. when MS bundles them, the companies selling the products goes out of business--because MS holds the OS, and just sells that. All the competitors have is an outer layer product.
so that's a pretty nice place to be sitting--just wait for a competitor to do something novel, then you clone it, claim you are an innovator, and put a company of people that had vision out of business.
it sucks and it's illegal, and the law is not being enforced. and people like you have absolutely no idea what benefits you have from being able to choose from a variety of vendors, whether it's a car, a printer, a bicycle or whatever.
I hope some one will port Gentoo portage or debian to be used with the WindowsXP kernel ...
MS "openness" gives me the creeps. I mean, it's like when they offer you "the first try for free" in drugs. They want everyone to work by their DRM, so they can ground their grip on the market, and use it as a standard "de facto" when negociating with the big content providers. All the little companies developing by their DRM are doing the dirty work for them.
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