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Microsoft / Adobe Competition Heating Up
MicroAdobe writes "Microsoft has noticed that some of the coolest sites on the Web, YouTube and MySpace included, get much of their flash from Flash and other design programs sold by Adobe. But as Microsoft gets ready to ship its own line of tools for designers and Web developers, the company is finding it must also defend against Adobe on its home turf, the desktop. At the same time, the line between Internet and desktop programs is blurring, and both companies see an opportunity to capture new business." The article focuses on the competition and doesn't even mention that Adobe's CEO called Microsoft a $50 billion monopolist.
And sometimes you have to realize that you either have principles or you don't.
Microsoft continually makes the computing world a nastier place. Choosing to reward them by purchasing and using their products, assisting them in extension of the monopoly which they have repeatedly been convicted of abusing, only makes you a contributor to the Microsoft problem.
I don't mind your attitude as long as you NEVER EVER complain about the results of Microsoft's embrace and extend behavior. Otherwise you are a hypocrite. But I don't really know what your stance is on that situation, so I'm not ready to start calling you names :)
"Put the rhetoric away" seems like code for "compromise your principles" to me.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
We're tired of you nerdy /. cockroaches always going on about
/dotage anyhow.
the evil Bill Gates and his Micro$oft empire. (dollar sign not mine).
I for one, welcome our new MS flashy overlords, and let's face it-
in Soviet Redmond, Silverfish will plug YOU in!
From the MS website:
MS Firefox Plugin
MS notes that:
If you use the Firefox browser:
Save "insall.msi" to disk. Once the downloads completes click 'Open'.Installation will start.
Perhaps THIS will shut up some of you tiresome insallent MS bashers! Most of you appear to be in your
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- aqk
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