What I find at least mildly irksome is that the conclusion drawn by the author is that this behavior illustrates, not anything about MS' behavior, which would seem to me to be the most obvious point, but rather "the importance of Web services", such that this importance would drive MS to do such a thing.
Ford, that is. Doubtful GM could now try and bust them for -not- trying to do anything about it. If they hadn't tried to do anything about it, after GM possibly bringing it to their attention at some point, well, it might be more problematic. As it is now, it is sort of like Calvin 'honoring' the Chevy logo, but Ford can say 'hey, it wasn't us'.
This is a sad moment for me. I remember being thrilled upon first discovering BeOS. Multi-threaded down to the kernel level. I could at last put something on my Mac that would give me a 'modern' OS. Started learning how to code for it. They tried. Guess it's like making decisions in a maze. Sometimes you run out of options and get stuck.
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"I'd call it customer inertia."
I could also call it M-O-N-O-P-O-L-Y.
What percent of store-boughten, online-ordered x86 PCs come with whatever MS OS is sanctioned, versus the percent of all other options for other x86 OSs presented in these same stores, sites??
How truly free are these OEMs to visibly offer and market x86 PCs with non-MS OSs ??
That's a very good way to stay in business no matter how sorry your product actually is.
"We understand, based upon the fact that our industry didn't rally to support us, that we need to change the way we interact and relate to our industry."
Translation: "No more Mr. Nice Microsoft. From now on we will use stronger threats."
The really interesting and innovative aspect of Microsoft's research dept. is that it is staffed entirely by attorneys expert in contract law. The fields of contract law and license agreements have advanced so much by Ms' innovations in these areas. People don't give them enough credit here I think.
The appeals court did not rule out a second breakup if this was ordered again. They basically said they couldn't do a breakup because they didn't hold hearings on the remedy. My guess was that at that point, Jackson had seen and heard enough and didn't see a need for it.
In the appeals court rejection of MS's request for stay of the remand to the lower court, they added that nothing they said in their ruling was intended to put boundaries on what the remand judge could rule for remedy.
If its so easy to make web sites all go through the trouble to opt-out of this defacement, why doesn't M$ make it an opt-in option? So that sites would only need to go do something extra to their sites IFF they WANTED this crap???
yeah, I'd have to argue their statement above. "It's better at detecting hw" ????? Well maybe the way it goes about it is better, but I think, and I could be wrong, that mabye there are a lot of people with hw that isn't supported that is in OS 9. I have an external USB drive for some backup space (I took cost over speed), and OS X can't see it.
Comparing these two is a cute idea for an article, but it might not really makes sense. The two are being targetted for different submarkets, even though they can be used in another submarkete, i.e Mac OS X really targetted towards consumers, graphics pros, anyone, etc., while W2k -seems- more focussed on business use.
Also, regardless of the outcome of this comparison, W2k has been out for some time, while OS X only two months or so. They were both in development for a long time, but I'd have to give the handicap to OS X here because it is more of a new start than Win-whatever. I mean there has been an NT-based OS for years, but a "UNIX-based" OS with the Apple/Mac GUI is new, and Aqua is certainly brand new. Also, I would place more credence in a comparison done by Ars Tecnica than CNET. Makes the difference of whether the comparison is found in the Tech section or the Lifestyle section of the paper, and I don't trust CNET'$ allegiance$ given their 'reporting' of some topics and stories in the past.
IANAKW (I Am Not A Karma Whore), but I have to say that was damn funny. LMAO. "It's funny 'cause it's true!" Homer Simpson. Disclaimer: Ok, OS X is not -that- slow, and I am using it as my primary OS on my Cube (w/ 320MB RAM), but it/GUI/Aqua does, currently at least, have an annoying molasses-like quality to it, which I hope and pray will be improved soon.
They are not "forcing" you to update by any means. You can easily, in a two-click-away obvious panel called Software Update, set a schedule or have it only done manually. You can also have it prompt you before it actually does anything or just do it automagically. The updates have not been anything drastic to really cause breakage. They are, in my experience thusfar, been relatively minor compared to the degree of change that was made just in going from OS 9, OS X. They have all been improvements, however.
I must say I like coming home in the evening and finding that a new update has been put out there, every few weeks or so. No matter how small. They have all been cleanly and painlessly installed. So I would just as soon have them now than later.
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What I find at least mildly irksome is that the conclusion drawn by the author is that this behavior illustrates, not anything about MS' behavior, which would seem to me to be the most obvious point, but rather "the importance of Web services", such that this importance would drive MS to do such a thing.
Now that's funny....
"Troll" ????
I thought that was funny, myself.
$1299. Same as the baseline of the new one.
Ford, that is. Doubtful GM could now try and bust them for -not- trying to do anything about it. If they hadn't tried to do anything about it, after GM possibly bringing it to their attention at some point, well, it might be more problematic. As it is now, it is sort of like Calvin 'honoring' the Chevy logo, but Ford can say 'hey, it wasn't us'.
Well, crap.
This is a sad moment for me. I remember being thrilled upon first discovering BeOS. Multi-threaded down to the kernel level. I could at last put something on my Mac that would give me a 'modern' OS. Started learning how to code for it. They tried. Guess it's like making decisions in a maze. Sometimes you run out of options and get stuck.
"I'd call it customer inertia."
I could also call it M-O-N-O-P-O-L-Y.
What percent of store-boughten, online-ordered x86 PCs come with whatever MS OS is sanctioned, versus the percent of all other options for other x86 OSs presented in these same stores, sites??
How truly free are these OEMs to visibly offer and market x86 PCs with non-MS OSs ??
That's a very good way to stay in business no matter how sorry your product actually is.
Here: http://www.birdhouse.org/beos/beos_osx/
"Children's software, Mandrake. Children's software..."
"We understand, based upon the fact that our industry didn't rally to support us, that we need to change the way we interact and relate to our industry."
Translation: "No more Mr. Nice Microsoft. From now on we will use stronger threats."
The really interesting and innovative aspect of Microsoft's research dept. is that it is staffed entirely by attorneys expert in contract law. The fields of contract law and license agreements have advanced so much by Ms' innovations in these areas. People don't give them enough credit here I think.
Funny you should say that...
Dennis Miller said, "Bill Gates is a monocle and a Persian cat away from being a villian in a Bond movie."
The appeals court did not rule out a second breakup if this was ordered again. They basically said they couldn't do a breakup because they didn't hold hearings on the remedy. My guess was that at that point, Jackson had seen and heard enough and didn't see a need for it.
In the appeals court rejection of MS's request for stay of the remand to the lower court, they added that nothing they said in their ruling was intended to put boundaries on what the remand judge could rule for remedy.
I wonder if this time they've FINALLY sacked those responsible for all the Mooses appearing in the opening titles.
If its so easy to make web sites all go through the trouble to opt-out of this defacement, why doesn't M$ make it an opt-in option? So that sites would only need to go do something extra to their sites IFF they WANTED this crap???
OH YEAH!!! That would RULE!!!
"Twn men entah! One man leave! Two men entah! One man leave!!"
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No, no. That doesn't go with existing 'standard' convention. You need something like 'MyInt' or 'MSintOLE-2.013'.
Hm, as I recall they did move a lot of their processing to NT a while back, did they not?
yeah, I'd have to argue their statement above. "It's better at detecting hw" ????? Well maybe the way it goes about it is better, but I think, and I could be wrong, that mabye there are a lot of people with hw that isn't supported that is in OS 9. I have an external USB drive for some backup space (I took cost over speed), and OS X can't see it.
Comparing these two is a cute idea for an article, but it might not really makes sense. The two are being targetted for different submarkets, even though they can be used in another submarkete, i.e Mac OS X really targetted towards consumers, graphics pros, anyone, etc., while W2k -seems- more focussed on business use.
Also, regardless of the outcome of this comparison, W2k has been out for some time, while OS X only two months or so. They were both in development for a long time, but I'd have to give the handicap to OS X here because it is more of a new start than Win-whatever. I mean there has been an NT-based OS for years, but a "UNIX-based" OS with the Apple/Mac GUI is new, and Aqua is certainly brand new. Also, I would place more credence in a comparison done by Ars Tecnica than CNET. Makes the difference of whether the comparison is found in the Tech section or the Lifestyle section of the paper, and I don't trust CNET'$ allegiance$ given their 'reporting' of some topics and stories in the past.
IANAKW (I Am Not A Karma Whore), but I have to say that was damn funny. LMAO. "It's funny 'cause it's true!" Homer Simpson. Disclaimer: Ok, OS X is not -that- slow, and I am using it as my primary OS on my Cube (w/ 320MB RAM), but it/GUI/Aqua does, currently at least, have an annoying molasses-like quality to it, which I hope and pray will be improved soon.
Dangit.
They are not "forcing" you to update by any means. You can easily, in a two-click-away obvious panel called Software Update, set a schedule or have it only done manually. You can also have it prompt you before it actually does anything or just do it automagically. The updates have not been anything drastic to really cause breakage. They are, in my experience thusfar, been relatively minor compared to the degree of change that was made just in going from OS 9, OS X. They have all been improvements, however.
I must say I like coming home in the evening and finding that a new update has been put out there, every few weeks or so. No matter how small. They have all been cleanly and painlessly installed. So I would just as soon have them now than later.
"Zathras -tell- Zathras, but Zathras never listen to Zathras." - Zathras
Not bad, coming from a former(?) Microsoft coder. Greetings from AM-Info.