What has anything you said got to do with this case which opened when Opera started bitching?
This EC case has nothing to do with OEM deals at all. You're also talking a language called "bullshit". When you want to provide some proof that Microsoft has such deals to prevent Opera getting on OEM computers I'll be happy to look at it.
I suspect you'll only reply back with more bullshit and maybe some lame link to some dudes blog which is also making up bullshit.
oh so this is about your agenda to force people to use the web browser you like. It isn't about unfair competitive behaviour at all.
Add the fact that Opera filed the complaint and it all makes sense now. Opera can't compete on features so it's taking the legal road to "win", unlike firefox which actually has competed by being a better product and has a much larger share of the market then Opera does.
Besides the fact that it's possible to edit PDFs on Linux these days
Adding comments to PDFs isn't editing them. The contents might not be text, you may want to add a comment to a graphic, for example "colour isn't right" or "This needs changing".
also the idea that there are alternate ways to handle the workflow
An operating system is a big change. Changing someone's work flow can be frustrating and dangerous if they have tight deadlines to get work done by.
How would you feel if you got one week to finish writing an application and you boss steps in an announces that from today everyone will be using a different operating system, IDE and compiler. Now you have to relearn everything before you can get on with your work.
I don't know about the US, but in England I had a pain in the ass of a time trying to get my medical history on paper records from one clinic to another 300 miles away.
How long before DNA sequencing becomes cheap enough to quickly add it to your records? What are the dangers of that?
uh.. being able to see you might have a high risk of heart disease so checking that out first if you have such symptoms? possibly checking you for signs of cancer if you have a specific gene know to cause it so they will find it in early stages?
I have no particular beef with what you are saying however I'd like to give a warning about just converting peoples machines over without doing a full investigation how that person works.
Although you might deem marketing to be unimportant there are specific applications which marketing uses for analysis such the statistics software called SPSS.
Also when my GF (who works in marketing) tried out Ubuntu for the week she was constantly frustrated because it ruined her work flow. For example, although the ability to add comments to a PDF may not be important to most of us that's how she reviews work. So now she couldn't do her work.
I believe this is now being added at some point but it highlights that even if the employee tells you what programs and functions they work with they might forget a small detail which it important to doing their work.
It's this type of thing that you have to be absolutely sure that you're not going to disrupt, because if you do then it's going to be your ass on the line and you'll be to blame.
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No one is going to ask you that. You're going to get stuck with whatever the OEM got paid to put on the machine, and that's going to be IE.
Oh look, nothings changed.
Since it's Opera's complaint that launched this why aren't you saying "fuck opera"?
Why give the EC a bad rap for doing its job?
No it won't. Only in Extrans mode I believe.
Wrong
Just because they give it away on their site:
1 - Doesn't mean they don't also sell it
2 - Doesn't mean they don't sell to OEMs (dell)
Mac OSX is a commercially viable alternative to Windows.
Ubuntu (bought from Amazon, OEM Dell, etc) is a commercially viable alternative to Windows.
What has anything you said got to do with this case which opened when Opera started bitching?
This EC case has nothing to do with OEM deals at all. You're also talking a language called "bullshit". When you want to provide some proof that Microsoft has such deals to prevent Opera getting on OEM computers I'll be happy to look at it.
I suspect you'll only reply back with more bullshit and maybe some lame link to some dudes blog which is also making up bullshit.
oh so this is about your agenda to force people to use the web browser you like. It isn't about unfair competitive behaviour at all.
Add the fact that Opera filed the complaint and it all makes sense now. Opera can't compete on features so it's taking the legal road to "win", unlike firefox which actually has competed by being a better product and has a much larger share of the market then Opera does.
but they didn't and that isn't what opera's complaint was about.
To summerise in my own words..
1) Opera wants IE to be removed
2) Opera wants to force IE to be w3c standards compliant
No where do they mention about price fixing. It's just complete made up bullshit.
If you can't get it right then how the hell are we suppose to..
It's not the EC. It's Opera who filed the complaint and are bitching about this. The EC is just doing its job.
You present this as though it's a viable option.. How many people know the ftp address to download firefox?
Only you, is the answer and only because you looked it up to prove me wrong.
or more likely; that's just what's usually on the screen.
Indeed, if Steve told management about Doug prior when he is truly an ass that no one likes then Steve would still have a job.
The whole thing is a one sided story of the news poster's friend. Steve could be an incompetent bumbling fool for all we know.
You mean when they become CEO's and get their "fired bonuses" then go work somewhere else leaving a trail of destruction?
Data protection act, etc..
Adding comments to PDFs isn't editing them. The contents might not be text, you may want to add a comment to a graphic, for example "colour isn't right" or "This needs changing".
An operating system is a big change. Changing someone's work flow can be frustrating and dangerous if they have tight deadlines to get work done by.
How would you feel if you got one week to finish writing an application and you boss steps in an announces that from today everyone will be using a different operating system, IDE and compiler. Now you have to relearn everything before you can get on with your work.
I don't know about the US, but in England I had a pain in the ass of a time trying to get my medical history on paper records from one clinic to another 300 miles away.
uh.. being able to see you might have a high risk of heart disease so checking that out first if you have such symptoms? possibly checking you for signs of cancer if you have a specific gene know to cause it so they will find it in early stages?
oh no, the horror?
After posting this I realised I left tons of interesting stuff out like that, but then it was suppose to be a tl;dr version so *shrug*
I have no particular beef with what you are saying however I'd like to give a warning about just converting peoples machines over without doing a full investigation how that person works.
Although you might deem marketing to be unimportant there are specific applications which marketing uses for analysis such the statistics software called SPSS.
Also when my GF (who works in marketing) tried out Ubuntu for the week she was constantly frustrated because it ruined her work flow. For example, although the ability to add comments to a PDF may not be important to most of us that's how she reviews work. So now she couldn't do her work.
I believe this is now being added at some point but it highlights that even if the employee tells you what programs and functions they work with they might forget a small detail which it important to doing their work.
It's this type of thing that you have to be absolutely sure that you're not going to disrupt, because if you do then it's going to be your ass on the line and you'll be to blame.
Nice, If you can't win a debate just call the other person dumb. You are clearly superior.
The fact that you have to make up situations that haven't happened just proves i'm right.
Read towards the end where they talk about the "studies" on Dvorak.
It's all a mix up when the told the geeks "makes me an invisible cloak"
They made the cloak invisible meaning that when you put it on you can see under the cloak.