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Antitrust Case Over, Microsoft Ties IE 10 To Win 8
deadeyefred writes "With the last vestiges of Microsoft's U.S. antitrust consent decree expiring earlier this year, the company is again tying its browser tightly to Windows. In pre-release versions of IE 10 and Windows 8, IE 10 cannot be uninstalled and is required to enable the new 'Metro'-style apps."
Riiiight, because the average users writes scripts and uses ssh clients oh and by the way giant bat wings pop out of my ass and I fly south for the winter, did you know that?
It is THIS, this kind of delusional dumbshit right here, that has kept Linux in last place, even when the sweaty monkey was practically committing corporate suicide with dead ducks like Vista.
Why is it soooo damned hard to accept that NORMAL USERS ARE NOT LIKE YOU, they will NOT use CLI, they will NOT script their fucking programs, they will NOT read man pages, do the 'find the fix" forum dances, write code or give a wet fart about what kind of programming languages your OS uses, alright?
It is so simple folks, the key word is CONSUMERS in giant flaming 50 foot neon, but do you listen? Nope, you pretend that inside every grandma there is a C coder just dying to get out and little Suzy the checkout girl goes home to read programming books in the bathtub.
You are about to be given not one but TWO frankly once in a lifetime gifts on a silver platter and you watch, you'll just piss them both away and stay dead fricking last and you know what? if they hand you a 20 yard head start and instead of sprinting for the finish you promptly shoot yourself in the foot and start masturbating in the middle of the course YOU DESERVE TO LOSE just for throwing the fucking race!
You have gift #1, Windows 8 which I'm betting will make Vista look like a gold plated OS brought to you by $1000 hookers by the amount of sheer HATE I've gotten from the public after showing them the UI, and gift #2 you have at last count something like 200 MILLION PLUS late model P4s and early dual cores that are gonna go EOL and will be just begging for an easy to use free OS, because lets face it Farmville and Facebook? NOT that resource intensive folks.
But you have to do things THEIR way, give them a product that will do what THEY want, and none of this fiddly CLI heavy geeker bullshit or YOU WILL LOSE period. I mean an OS with a fricking $1000 barrier to entry gained share during Vista while Linux stayed flatline, and despite all the hype even with the most wildly pulled out of your ass numbers the much vaunted Ubuntu is at the MAX maybe 3/4ths of a percent, even after all the press!
But you know what the definition of insanity is? It is doing the same thing over and over AND over and expecting a different result. Me and the other retailers have practically drawn you a map on how to gain serious share, there has NEVER been a better time in history, with so many hooked on web based games and sites, and you have TWO gifts thanks to the sweaty monkey having no brain about to be dropped in your lap, what fucking more do you need? An engraved invitation?
Just give the consumer what they want, that's all. Either do that or just give up, quit all these "Next year will be the year of Linux on the desktop!" total horseshit, and accept that you only want to be a hobbyist OS for geekers. Because as it is hell you ain't even growing in servers any longer, in fact last numbers I saw had you losing share. you DON'T listen to the consumer, you DON'T listen to the retailers, you DON'T listen to the OEMs, instead you expect the entire planet to bend over backwards and learn to do things YOUR way. Arrogant much?
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.