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Microsoft's Longhorn Faces Antitrust Scrutiny

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fine-toothed-comb dept.

benore writes "The Department of Justice will be reviewing Microsoft's Longhorn product as part of the company's antitrust settlement. One analyst opines that Mircosoft is appearing to soften its image to become kinder and gentler. 'They don't want people to hate them anymore. They've learned from their mistakes.' Hmmm."

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  1. Re:than they had better mend their ways by micolous · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm still waiting for ReiserFS support, natively. Even just read only. The alternative isn't terribly nice.

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  2. Re:Lets hope... by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Was it ever about News for Nerds, Stuff that matters? Or just about page hits?

    Interesting question: Do the editors have page hit quotas? Eyeball bonuses?

    Anyway, it seems to be the Apple topics that are generating all the page hits and all the "controversy" these days. A little MS bash is almost nostalgic.

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  3. Re:Too late, Bill by TheStick · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Well, buddy, I'm just saying MS made fun of its customers for years now. And today they're suddenly saying thay they are nice people, and actually make nice products. YOUR post, however, IS useless! Sans rancune!

  4. Don't smile at this crocodile by petrus4 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    >One analyst opines that Mircosoft is appearing to
    >soften its image to become kinder and gentler.
    >'They don't want people to hate them anymore.
    >They've learned from their mistakes.' Hmmm."

    They might not want people to hate them any more, certainly...but it'll be a very cold day in hell when I believe Microsoft have "learned from their mistakes."

    Bill Gates is a raving megalomaniac who wants to take over the world more passionately than most, and his second in command, Dr Evil AKA Steve Ballmer, isn't far behind him on that score either. I will keep using XP for the time being...at least until I can figure out WineX to a greater degree anyway...but I don't trust the evil genius who produces it as far as I could throw him...and neither should anyone else if they know what's good for them.

    1. Re:Don't smile at this crocodile by ScrewMaster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Just for the record, Steve Ballmer appeared as the Monster in the film "Young Frankenstein". While many people believe that Peter Boyle played this role, I have it from a reliable source that Steve Ballmer actually starred as the Monster, as Boyle was unable to appear due to contractual conflicts. While there is a distinct resemblance between the two men, Ballmer was an ideal replacement for Boyle because very little makeup was required for him to play the Monster.

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  5. Re:Angst by Danimoth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    in case he needs a little more advice on this subject http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ma nly_suicide

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