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Microsoft Wins Windows XP Downgrade Lawsuit
CWmike writes "A federal judge has dismissed a year-old lawsuit against Microsoft over alleged antitrust violations for the 'downgrade' rules it set for Windows Vista and XP. The order put an end to the lawsuit filed by Emma Alvarado in February 2009. In her original complaint, she accused Microsoft of coercing computer makers into forcing consumers who wanted to run Windows XP to first buy Windows Vista, or later, Windows 7, before they were allowed to downgrade to XP. The judge rejected Alvarado's accusations, saying that the plaintiff had not proved Microsoft benefited from the downgrade practices that it created and that OEMs implemented."
Whatever. This isn't flamebait. Just because everyone on here hates microsoft doesn't mean they don't make decent software. I ran Vista for over a year with absolutely no problems whatsoever. Stupid Lawsuits like this are what bogs down the legal system. If anything this lady should be sued for being stupid.
It's friday night, I'm gonna go get some hot ass. You fags can sit around jacking it and talking about windows. losers!
So if I murder that judge’s children, I’m good, as long as I don’t benefit from it? ;)
What an idiot.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
"And why WOULD you want to use XP these days anyway? 7 is better than it in every way imaginable." ...What a stupid fucking clueless moron you are! dumbass, XPsp3/64 pisses all over that fucking 7 rebranded vista shit.
Vis7a was designed for and dedicated to an audience of idiots who could be easily sold on crap, like businesses, and IT retards etc
Productivity = yes that thing that you gain from good design, unlike vis7a which has retarded design is so many areas and crap changes, so much so that settings and changes I could get to and make in a few clicks, suddenly becomes an effort of extra clicks all because of the crap UI layout/position/ location of settings options etc once again in the Explorer shell! how many times do I need to bring up that heap of shit.
Do you even know what the Explorer shell is!? it consists of useless crap changes like copy/replace/move dialog windows designed for retards with eye problems( no doubt the reason for excessive design size bloatage of so much in win7), things like the transfer dialog that forgets that you turned on show more information, so the next time you start a large file transfer you have to click it again. pathetic Open File dialogs, Explorer file manage, the shit useless breadcrumb bar navigation for retards. That shitting piece of junk called the control panel, where instead of things like closely related settings in ONE ui dialog separated by TABS, you now get a fucked up mess of settings all over the fucking place, ripped into separate pages. or the pathetically crap startmenu, where instead of just leaving in the option for an "All programs" pullout, they just thought this would be so much better if everyone had to look at installed programs through a fucking piddly frame window.
I mean I'm not going to waste my time on any more of the 100's of specific examples because you are just too ignorant, its impossible for you to see the obvious crap in 7, and why XP, simply because it doesn't have those crap changes, was is already ahead not even talking about what other advantages it still has, that 7 doesn't.
MS would have done a better job with Vis7a if they hadn't done any of the shit changes it made from XP, and had just offered under hood improvements, got rid of useless unnecessary services from starting up unintelligently, made extra API improvements! unlike what they actually did, added stuff like Dx11 support, instead of trying to fucking redesign the wheel through moron designers trying to appeal to audience of clueless sheep. Gimmicks that are tied into the FailAero GPU service that give the user no control over disabling individual settings like no taskbar preview processing of videos etc, putting the USER in control. Instead the developed a piece of locked down shit and hardcoded their own retarded settings through out, and only made what pathetic little settings available through registry settings that one is expected to go on search and find mission across the fucking internet because of good for nothing useless dev teams and program managers that twiddled there thumbs for a few fucking years and put out complete utter shit, that in so many cases single coders/developers have done a far fucking better job at releasing apps/extensions with far better features/functionality with more customization choices, it says a lot about the effort and idiots working at MS.
PS if you just took a look at how fucked up the FailAero GUI was like you might understand why it is such a fucking mess, and why when Aero is disabled the classic/xp style explorer shell visuals look like shit. Microscum have created an inconsistent pile of shit throughout its vis7arded OS, and its why so many applications GUI's have given up on adhering to the default OS visual theme and now adopt their own, because the default Vis7a one is a pile of stinking shit!
The glass effects just hides the crap GUI/UX design, allows them to hide away things like menus, actual functionality, allows them to get away with not putting in improved fun
"Except that once you've bought Vista, the downgrade to XP was free."
Oh wow.. free was it? lol are you fucking stupid!? By forcing users to buy vista MS can use its sales numbers as marketing bullshit to convice other fucking idiots that its poorly developed Vis7a shite pile was actually being used. When many were downgrading(or better put UPGRADING0 to fucking XP!!!!!!
So you and everyone other dumbass falling for Microscums monopoly game just got conned into paying full price for Vista shit, when many(the intelligent ones) wanted the better XPsp3/64 OS that was already a few years older and thus should have been sold and licensed separately.
Otherwise the point would be why is Vis7a being sold for more if its previous OS is still pissing the fuck all over it.
Don't be fucking a retard! Its called Monopolization and it lives because of dumb ass retards like yourself helping it!
Protip: Only faggots use numbers in place of letters.
You're not 1337, you're a goddamned tool.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
The only people who say that XP is better than Vista are people who haven't actually used Vista. I've been using Vista x64 for over a year now and I'll never go back to XP.
The only people who say that XP is better than Vista are people who haven't actually used Vista.
Troll, shill or asserted in good faith? Who knows.
What I do know is that what you say is pretty unlikely unless you can back it up.
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