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EU Sleuths Think Microsoft Sabotaged Windows
Adam Zweimiller writes "The Inquirer is reporting that in it's ongoing battle with Microsoft, the European Commission is investigating the possibility that the Vole has sneakily sabotaged the Media Player-free versions of Windows it is obliged to ship to the EU. A report (subscription required) in today's Wall Street Journal suggests Microsoft has fiddled with the registry in its stripped-down Windows offerings and the result is that video clips embedded into Microsoft Word documents don't run properly, for example."
I can easily say without any evidence that they tampered with IE too. There's something wrong with ActiveX...
Microsoft sabotaging Windows? No.
.... a definte YES.
Held Windows at gunpoint, danced around with it in front of the authorities, kicked it in the guts a few times, teased everyone by saying "you'll never get me!", and waged a decade-long seige
And if they call bad coding "sabotage", well that's an interesting parallel universe they live in then.
READY.
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Manager: Take that media player out of your operating system.
Me: ok
Manager: Why don't these media clips play anymore?
What I'd like to say: Cause you're a fucking idiot. And you told me to take it out, which I did. So go fuck yourself, and stop telling me how to do my job.
Microsoft ships out buggy code after a fight with the EU: people complain that they're intentionally sabotaging their code in retaliation.
Please people, just pick one conspiracy theory and stick with it...
Lawrence Person (lawrencepersonh@gmailh.com (remove all "h"s to mail)
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
how this affects clippy or MS Bob.
Say hello to my little sig.
My professor bitched when the printed out version's video wouldnt play.
Viral software licensing is not freedom, it is in fact GNU/Socialism.
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2384
In this case, it should read: "Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to both incompetence and malice."
-- Microsoft is the most expensive commodity operating system and office suite vendor in the marketplace.
I think a very high percentage of word documents are never printed. People send them via email as attachments. And if you hunted these people down and killed them, the courts would say it was you who did something wrong, even if they embedded a video in the attached word document! Strange, but true.
Loose lips lose spit.
I bet he's a Harry Potter fan.
Never attribute to incompetence that which can be attributed to Microsoft.
Assume I was drunk when I posted this.
No, that is just because some people think Word is Windows. :) :(
;-)
BTW, that is not a joke, I work in tech support.
No kidding... Wish I had mod points for you, but lacking them, I'll give a hearty "me too".
My favorite - I have a never-ending war with spyware at my workplace (don't we all?). OVER HALF of people swear up and down that they don't ever use "the internet". Now, a few I expect just lie about it because they think I'll get them in trouble or something (look at porn all day for all it matters to me - Do your job, don't make extra work for me, and don't get me sued, and I really couldn't care less what you do on-line).
I realized after a while what this really meant, when immediately after (sincerely) telling my she never used the internet, one coworker wanted to "show me something". She then opened "My Computer" and proceeded to type a URL (badly formed, but good enough to work) into the address bar.
Totally blew me away - I never would have thought that, someone would actually believe that they have "google.com" on "My" Computer!
So, BTW, how did all you Slashdotters get into my computer? Very rude of you not to knock, you know... And stop stalking me! I notice you on my computer at home, too!