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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."
> Most of the common distros do come with a browser by default.
Which can be uninstalled without any problem. Learn to fucking read.
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.
Thank you Mr AC but you want to know what the REALLY sad part is? A good 90% of it is geeker dick waving, that's all. you gvo to ANY forum and simply ask for a non CLI way to do a simple task and you'll get called everything filthy name in the book and get told go back to Windblowz LOL! because these fudnuckers think being a PITA makes them cool and CLI givez gonad powerz which if one thinks about that logically even for a second can see they are so full of shit the net ought to be choked on their stench!
After all do they code in ASM? do they load their kernel on punchcards? All tech since then has been created to make things easier going all the way to visicalc. For the love of God THAT IS WHAT COMPUTERS ARE FOR PEOPLE, to make things EASIER FOR THE USER so they don't have to sit there with a fucking pencil and paper! why the fuck is these people even using PCs when there is a perfectly good Abacus that could give them supergonad powerz!
In the end most of the block are there. you have click N Run that is a hell of a lot like an app store, you have some nice DEs and even some cool new ideas like Expressgate instant on OS, but in the end the geeker dick waving dooms the whole community because anyone that even tries to make things better gets howls of geeker rage! Its like politics where the lunatics have taken over, something as common fucking sense as "hey shouldn't we make things easier for the user, you know, so they can actually use the OS to do their work?" gets treated like fucking blasphemy and simple obvious things like "Shouldn't they be able to accomplish this in the GUI?" gets treated like you just said Elvis lives on the moon.
I think its sad, I really truly do. You have this frankly revolutionary idea, to open computers up for the masses, to get rid of planned obsolescence and make computers even cheaper and more inter-operable for everyone, but then when it comes to the execution you let basement trolls and anti-social developers just piss it all away so they can feel superior to the masses, and that is just sad. Not only sad but pointless, like copypasta into a term makes you some leet hacker, its fucking stupid! If you WANT TO use CLI there should always be the option but you should never HAVE TO, yet you let basement trolls and developers that if they had their way all you'd get on first boot would be a term with "RTFM Noob LOL!" written across the screen actually dictate policy!
I repeat you are about to get not ONE but TWO incredible opportunities just dumped in your lap like its Xmas morning and the only question is are you gonna unwrap them and claim your prize, or are you gonna take a big shit on the table and set the tree on fire? The ball is about to be in your court, probably for the last time. The competition has a CEO that is totally batshit and about to fuck his company hard, the world is more net centric than EVER before, and there is literally gonna be a couple of billion dollars in hardware that the other guy is gonna say "LOL we won't support it" and ALL OF THAT can be the biggest boon in the history of OSS. If you refuse YET AGAIN to capitalize on the gifts given you? Frankly you deserve to lose and have nobody to blame but yourself.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.