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Microsoft 'under attack' On All Fronts
khujifig writes "The Beeb are carrying a story looking at the challenges facing Microsoft in the next few years.
This includes a brief description of the M.Home (sans Clippy) which the Beeb describes as "a far cry from real life", and a discussion of the next few years competition for Microsoft. They go on to highlight Linux, OpenOffice.org, the GIMP and Firefox (which Gates himself has used: "I played around with it a bit, but it's just another browser, and IE [Microsoft's Internet Explorer] is better,"), and look Apple in relation to Longhorn. Not as bad a read as I was expecting. Their summary: Microsoft is under 'attack' on all fronts, and either needs to innovate or die. "Why use Microsoft if you have a broadband connection and combine Firefox with powerful web services like Google's Gmail?."" It should be said, tho', that articles like this have been written about MSFT for a long time - and there's still billions in their war-chest.
It's the end of the world as we know it...
...and I feel fine.
One day, Microsoft will market their own flavor of Linux, out of spite.
Microsoft 'under attack' On All Fours
I'm Trappped at Berkeley.
Why read the Beeb when you have an optical mouse and a DVD burner? :)
+5:offtopic,but anti-American
I think what Bill means is...
"I played around with it a bit, but it's just another browser and IE [Microsoft's Internet Explorer is better...at downloading malware, spyware, viruses, and leaving your machine gapping open to the world."
At least he admits to knowing what the word "browser" means. He pretended not to during the antitrust trial.
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I thought The Gimp was Adobe Photoshop concurrent...
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Hmm, I work in a big building full of people who use computers for more than Email, Web and Gaming. It's this strange custom called a J O B -- you Linux users should try it sometime.
When I first read this, I thought it was a new Windows worm.
My main use for Windows is to terminal emulate onto a real operating system. Its nice that they supply a 3GHz ssystem to do it from, but in reality its nothing a firefox extention couldnt handle.
Most big businesses are running internal applications that are increasingly being supplied with browser interfaces (all the better to outsource you, my dear).
**TODO** Steal someone elses sig.
lets have, ooh, say, a hundred different linux advocacy websites. Then all we need is some sort of web forum where we can all bicker about which flavour is better and why, endlessly and repeatedly...
Well, that's only true if the two tin cans have the worst, most convoluted interface that could be conceived... Perhaps two tin cans that you need to stand on your head to use....
If you stopped using windows... developers would have a reason... yaddayadda... Simple economics 101.
If enough people stand in front of a running truck, it'll eventurally stop. OK who goes first?
Like many Slashdot users, you seem to have forgotten to RTFA.
Grammar Macht Frei!