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Microsoft Responds to DOT Ban on Vista, Office, IE
roscoetoon writes "From the blog of Mary Jo Foley: What's Microsoft's response to the DOT's charges? A corporate spokeswoman sent this statement, via e-mail: (caution: microbrain double-speak ahead) ... "We respect the customer's decision. As with any of our other Federal customers, it's our job to help DOT maximize the value of its Enterprise Agreement through the adoption of our technology. We are engaged with large, strategic customers across government at every level, and are working closely with them on these products through their participation in our Technical Adoption Programs.""
That's pr speak for we are going to Congress and MAKE you buy it little man!
If you don't like what I write don't be a CS and mod it down. Refute it.
Yea I can't spell. So what is your point?
Um, Mrs. Foley? Bingo, ma'am.
with apologies to Scott Adams
After the incident on Mars, I will never trust the UAC again.
We were just talking about Lice and their hosts...
"independent analysts to offer dramatic improvements in security"
Allow or Deny?
That, I guess is the new 'Abort, Retry or Fail?'.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
I have also been running vista for two months straight without restarting it. Office 2007 runs great on my computer, and I am especially impressed by the ri- Oooh look! A shiny coin!
We are Microsoft. Lower your Firewalls and surrender your systems. We will add your cultural and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your IT departments will adapt to service us.
Resistance is futile.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
In Soviet Russia Enterprise Agreement maximize the value of tap on you.
8:44 A.M. A full scale corporate invasion by foreign applications begins. Total surprise. Almost total success. A gang of PR suits become the last line of defense.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
...I had to be certain I was not reading the subject of the previous Slashdot story, "The Coevolution of Lice & Their Hosts."
Those who can, do. Those who can't, write technology blogs.
Quite your complaining.
Did I mention Novell and GPLv3 recently?
That should keep you busy for a while.
"We are The Borg, you will comply." It's right there in between the lines.
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
Don't cringe, LiveWire. Stand Proud! Made-in-Seattle Astroturf *is* the best money can buy. :-) It can selling anything. You could wrap something small and brown that fits in the palm of your hand and eventually it'll sell in droves. (I'm not sure if I am thinking of the Zune or something else small and brown... ;-)
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> billboards are everywhere. Even in their home court, Microsoft is playing Defence in this quarter.
I don't understand why. Microsoft could stick up billboards calling me all sorts of nasty names and my next laptop will be Vista anyway. Maybe they think a hundred Seattle-based corporate buyers are going to arrive at work and mistakenly order Linux? "Sorry Boss, I didn't see any billboards this morning so I forgot the name of Microsoft's Flagship Product". If any Yes-men are reading this give Bill a good shoulder rub and remind him he won. Billboards for Microsoft are like Billboards for the Chinese Communist Party. "Who do you want to vote for today?"
> Since the modding is definatley pro-MS on
Even the devil deserves an easy day now and then.
Its called /. not c:\
Got Code?
Wait, you mean Hell invaded due to a Vista Exploit?
Vista: You want to move a portal's location, Cancel or allow?
UAC Scientist: Allow, damnit!
Vista: Incoming material from coordinates 666,666,666. Cancel or allow?
UAC Scientist: Allow, for the love of-- Oh, shit.
"No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson