Actually, I have no complaints with China. My real complaint is with so many people dogging M$ for really nothing. They are not the best, but at least for me, they have not sent me 'free' trials with 7 month expired code keys and tag on the package stating so and that I could download 4.27 GB of programming free as IBM did nor have they (M$) ever only give me 30 or 60 days of trials as Adobe has. There is personal choice, and mine is primarily M$ with some Adobe and Corel, etc. I also run Linux distros. Those who prefer Apple or Linux-=fine use them. But please do not curse about M$ Freedom of choice. Now back to Chiuna-only illustration that M$ is not the only 'biggie' doing "stuff". Nothing else.Sorry for the misunderstanding of my woeds.
No they are not in private better look at the gobbling up of entities and also the record og Google in China in terms of rolling over on bloggers and IM users to the government of China. I wil;l not get into the proverbialp contest beacause it will happen. It is with Apple and the Ipod/DRM in Europe now
I agree. Let the consumer decide. However, when we have courts and government bodies telling companies (Microsoft the current target) that they have to share with oters or cease and desist doing something for the sake of fairness, blah blah blah; then that is what we get. Now, I am going to go on my topic of defending M$. Not because they are necessarily great, but because they are getting beat up and still keep on trucking. We blast the monopoly of MS and who is watching GOOGLE? What about Apple? Come on let us ALL play fair and be unbiased. Each product has its good and bad. I personally run MS on my comps due to the ease. I also have several Linux distros and MACBook. We see complaints about Vista about the cost of MS products.... And in 3 years time" we see Visual Studio 2005, Vista, Office 2007 and the new Expressions Suite. Who else can present all of that. And check the prices. Except for some of the dumb things with VISTA-not too awefully bad. Compatability issues? MS problem or vendor problems? Sorry someone needs to defend them on basis of fair play and what is right or wrong not from hate or anything else
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Actually, I have no complaints with China. My real complaint is with so many people dogging M$ for really nothing. They are not the best, but at least for me, they have not sent me 'free' trials with 7 month expired code keys and tag on the package stating so and that I could download 4.27 GB of programming free as IBM did nor have they (M$) ever only give me 30 or 60 days of trials as Adobe has. There is personal choice, and mine is primarily M$ with some Adobe and Corel, etc. I also run Linux distros. Those who prefer Apple or Linux-=fine use them. But please do not curse about M$ Freedom of choice. Now back to Chiuna-only illustration that M$ is not the only 'biggie' doing "stuff". Nothing else.Sorry for the misunderstanding of my woeds.
No they are not in private better look at the gobbling up of entities and also the record og Google in China in terms of rolling over on bloggers and IM users to the government of China. I wil;l not get into the proverbialp contest beacause it will happen. It is with Apple and the Ipod/DRM in Europe now
I agree. Let the consumer decide. However, when we have courts and government bodies telling companies (Microsoft the current target) that they have to share with oters or cease and desist doing something for the sake of fairness, blah blah blah; then that is what we get. Now, I am going to go on my topic of defending M$. Not because they are necessarily great, but because they are getting beat up and still keep on trucking. We blast the monopoly of MS and who is watching GOOGLE? What about Apple? Come on let us ALL play fair and be unbiased. Each product has its good and bad. I personally run MS on my comps due to the ease. I also have several Linux distros and MACBook. We see complaints about Vista about the cost of MS products.... And in 3 years time" we see Visual Studio 2005, Vista, Office 2007 and the new Expressions Suite. Who else can present all of that. And check the prices. Except for some of the dumb things with VISTA-not too awefully bad. Compatability issues? MS problem or vendor problems? Sorry someone needs to defend them on basis of fair play and what is right or wrong not from hate or anything else