You really hate everything Microsoft, don't you? They are just like any other corporation, super aggressive and ruthless.
Their OS monopoly helped businesses by standardizing operating platforms. Imagine a world with hundreds of different OSes and file-systems and incompatible hardware to deal with.
Microsoft is not perfect, but has certainly made valuable contributions to the Computer Industry.
I agree this is really awesome. Microsoft has done some revolutionary things in the past, like giving away the TCP/IP stack Internet Explorer 4.0 for free when these products were very expensive and would have hampered the growth of Internet.
I have silverlight installed, but it it really worth an extra addon? I hope HTML 5 becomes a web standard soon so that people don't have to depend on these innumerable addons and the web becomes truely platform neutral.
Does that mean that their relationship with Mozilla will be ending? If Google Chrome takes off I can't see how it would make much business sense to support the competition to their own product. And if the relationship ends I can see Mozilla going downhill fast as from what I understand the place is pretty much funded by Google. But as always this is my 02c,YMMV
I've used Google "Blurp" Chrome for 3 hours now, and its not even close to the functionality provided by firefox. Its still beta though. The window keeps freezing all the time. Maybe later stable versions would be better...
But for now, I ought to stick with Firefox...
Absolutely agree.
Dr. Ron Paul has clear ideas of getting the country out of the economic mess we find ourselves into.
Let us hope for the best. He doesn't have a chance, though. All the independent voters will be sucked by Obama. If Ron Paul is out of th Primaries, I'm going to Obama camp.
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You really hate everything Microsoft, don't you? They are just like any other corporation, super aggressive and ruthless. Their OS monopoly helped businesses by standardizing operating platforms. Imagine a world with hundreds of different OSes and file-systems and incompatible hardware to deal with. Microsoft is not perfect, but has certainly made valuable contributions to the Computer Industry.
I agree this is really awesome. Microsoft has done some revolutionary things in the past, like giving away the TCP/IP stack Internet Explorer 4.0 for free when these products were very expensive and would have hampered the growth of Internet. I have silverlight installed, but it it really worth an extra addon? I hope HTML 5 becomes a web standard soon so that people don't have to depend on these innumerable addons and the web becomes truely platform neutral.
Opera for iPhone supports pinch to zoom multitouch. Check the video in Engadget - http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/opera-mini-for-iphone-approved-will-be-available-for-free/
Finally, the tyranny of the Apple App Store has been beaten. More power to the Free Markets... :)
Microsoft owes me $1.5 million for all the emails I have forwarded for them since last week.
Does that mean that their relationship with Mozilla will be ending? If Google Chrome takes off I can't see how it would make much business sense to support the competition to their own product. And if the relationship ends I can see Mozilla going downhill fast as from what I understand the place is pretty much funded by Google. But as always this is my 02c,YMMV
I've used Google "Blurp" Chrome for 3 hours now, and its not even close to the functionality provided by firefox. Its still beta though. The window keeps freezing all the time. Maybe later stable versions would be better... But for now, I ought to stick with Firefox...
Absolutely agree. Dr. Ron Paul has clear ideas of getting the country out of the economic mess we find ourselves into. Let us hope for the best. He doesn't have a chance, though. All the independent voters will be sucked by Obama. If Ron Paul is out of th Primaries, I'm going to Obama camp.