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Microsoft Extends Product Lifecycle
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has decided to extend product support on business and developer products effective June 1, 2004. Mainstream support remains unchanged at 5 years, extended support is greatly extended from 2 to 5 years and Online self-help support is extended from 8 to 10 years. I have to say kudos to Microsoft on this one."
Microsoft announced that the release of their new OS codenamed Longhorn has been further delayed
decentra^lized You have a play reasons 3hy anyone
MS seems to be on the back-foot for now.
Sorry have to take that one apart. MS has been on back-foot/reactive since its inception. It's never been a "pioneer" in any of its fields...well maybe Office...I said MAYBE! All Microsoft does is wait for somebody to do the hard work of finding the Next Big Thing, then moves in for the kill - first offer to buy out, and if they can't, they develop their own version, and toss it in with the OS. Works everytime, and has been for about 20 years now... So yea, they probably fear Linux (and have for a long long time now), but that's basically what drives them. They used to fear Netscape....
My Favourite Meme
Give them a break.... Linux was written by only one person (and a few helpers) in one year (ie one year per programmer). Microsoft has a few hundred programmers so to be fair you should also give them the same time (ie. one year per programmer) -- a few hundred years -- before you start bad mouthing them.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
slashdot has become a whore to Microsoft advertising dollars...
as you say, my leech.
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fauxking phonIE payper liesnse stock markup FraUD billyonerror execrable. they all have the same whoreabull smell. sheesh!@#$%
from a post meant to be tietolled:
even more evile suckage from those scumbag stock markup FraUDs/felons over at nsi/verysigned.con
(Score:-)mynuts won, not funnIEl)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 30, @10:28AM (#9289395)
looking up say, oxnix.com, you get something like:
http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/ind
why & because? looks like they are disavowing knowledge of any dots that they cannot claim hostage rights to? talk about creating informational black holes? fauxking nazi billyonerrors' puppets. sheesh!@#$%
lookout bullow.
robbIE's pateNTdead/dysfunctional PostBlock devise, doesn't help anybody?:
Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, anonymous comment posting has temporarily (forever, if we had some ept) been disabled. You can still login to post. However, if bad posting continues from your IP or Subnet that privilege could be revoked as well. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner or login and improve your posting . If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down (like with fuddles' phonIE bouNTy hunter scam). If you think this is unfair, we just don't care.
silliest test we've ever seen/taken?