MS Word has become the defacto standard in the office, so you're limited to how many Office solutions? How many OSs to run those solutions?
The Macintosh for one. It runs a very nice version of Microsoft Office that is fully compatible with the Windows version.
So even if you absolutely must have 100% compatibility with MS Office, you still have a very viable choice. Or are you saying that the Macintosh is crap?
Palms trade things like MP3 playback and glitzy graphics
If by lacking glitzy graphics you mean the Palm screen is a poor greyscale LCD that is only visible in bright light or total darkness you're right on the money. Those extra large backlit 65k color screens make my Palm Vx grey with envy.
Honestly I think the reason many of us own Palms is because we can't justify the price of a PocketPC. If I could, I'd have an iPaq tomorrow or better yet one of these (whenver they become available):
The irony is that Microsoft is able to use an Open Source conference to further their message. You guys should just go ahead and take some ads out in the NY Times for them and save yourselves the hassle.
Whether you want to admit it or not, they have a good point on the GPL. The best you can hope for is to clarify that their point only relates to the GPL and not Open Source in general. Unfortunetly for you, the Open Source poster child, Linux, get's screwed regardless.
I know of 7 people including myself, who will never use hotmail again.
There are over 80 million people using hotmail. In the time it took you to mention your seven friends who will no longer use Hotmail, more than 7 new users joined hotmail.
When you're talking about a userbase of 80 million, 7 is not many, nor is 700, nor is 7000, nor is 70,000. Now I'm sure Microsoft wouldn't like to lose 70,000 members, but if they did it wouldn't be the end of Hotmail.
btw...the 80 million number is rounded down from 86 million and is over 6 months old. If you're going to take down hotmail 7 people at a time, you'd better get started soon!
Many people have already sworn to never use hotmail again, and this change in policy doesn't seem to be affecting them.
Please define many.
What you mean to say is "Many people I know", because when compared to the size of Hotmail's user base the number of people who have sworn not to use hotmail is not very many at all.
Recently Microsoft has been claiming that the Judge was biased during the trial, because afterwards he said a few choice words about the company.
As someone pointed out, even afterwards he's not supposed to comment on the case as long as it is in appeals, but the fact of the matter was he made those comments before his trial was over.
Here's a snippet from this article over at news.com:
The judges were especially concerned that Jackson made statements during the trial but asked reporters not to print the quotes until after the case's conclusion.
"His embargo makes his comments worse," Randolf said. If the comments were released during trial, "he would have been off this case in a minute."
Red herring alert! Nobody suggested that in this thread. But both the original article and the clarification were clearly hinting at outlawing the GPL and possibly open source in general.
Talk about a Red herring, the article did not "clearly hint" at outlawing the GPL, rather it hinted that taxpayer money shouldn't be used to fund GPL software. Here's the quote:
In other words, Microsoft representatives warned, "anyone who adds or innovates under the GPL agrees to make the resulting code, in its entirety, available for all to use... [which] might constrain innovating stemming from taxpayer-funded software development."
I read this as Microsoft saying that if the government releases code under the GPL that many developers will be less likely to use that code because doing so precludes them form making any money. Like it or not, making money is what drives this country.
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The Macintosh for one. It runs a very nice version of Microsoft Office that is fully compatible with the Windows version.
So even if you absolutely must have 100% compatibility with MS Office, you still have a very viable choice. Or are you saying that the Macintosh is crap?
If by lacking glitzy graphics you mean the Palm screen is a poor greyscale LCD that is only visible in bright light or total darkness you're right on the money. Those extra large backlit 65k color screens make my Palm Vx grey with envy.
Honestly I think the reason many of us own Palms is because we can't justify the price of a PocketPC. If I could, I'd have an iPaq tomorrow or better yet one of these (whenver they become available):
PocketPC In A Phone
There is, it's called Halo and most gaming sites think it's at least 1/5 as good as MGS2.
Halo Review - 9.7/10
Metal Gear Solid 2 Review - 9.6/10
Halo Review - 9.7/10
Metal Gear Solid 2 Review - 9.7/10
So I guess that means it's a contender in your book.
There's a lack of 3rd party support for the XBox? When did Microsoft buy all of these companies currently making games for the XBox?
GodGames
Konami
Midway
Ubi Soft
Electronic Arts
THQ
Aclaim
Tecmo
Capcom
Sega
Interpay
Crave
Infogames
Eidos
Rockstar
TDK Mediactive
LucasArts
Bethesda
And that's just the currently released software.
There is irony here, but not like you think.
The irony is that Microsoft is able to use an Open Source conference to further their message. You guys should just go ahead and take some ads out in the NY Times for them and save yourselves the hassle.
Whether you want to admit it or not, they have a good point on the GPL. The best you can hope for is to clarify that their point only relates to the GPL and not Open Source in general. Unfortunetly for you, the Open Source poster child, Linux, get's screwed regardless.
There are over 80 million people using hotmail. In the time it took you to mention your seven friends who will no longer use Hotmail, more than 7 new users joined hotmail.
When you're talking about a userbase of 80 million, 7 is not many, nor is 700, nor is 7000, nor is 70,000. Now I'm sure Microsoft wouldn't like to lose 70,000 members, but if they did it wouldn't be the end of Hotmail.
btw...the 80 million number is rounded down from 86 million and is over 6 months old. If you're going to take down hotmail 7 people at a time, you'd better get started soon!
Please define many.
What you mean to say is "Many people I know", because when compared to the size of Hotmail's user base the number of people who have sworn not to use hotmail is not very many at all.
Recently Microsoft has been claiming that the Judge was biased during the trial, because afterwards he said a few choice words about the company.
As someone pointed out, even afterwards he's not supposed to comment on the case as long as it is in appeals, but the fact of the matter was he made those comments before his trial was over.
Here's a snippet from this article over at news.com:
The judges were especially concerned that Jackson made statements during the trial but asked reporters not to print the quotes until after the case's conclusion.
"His embargo makes his comments worse," Randolf said. If the comments were released during trial, "he would have been off this case in a minute."
Red herring alert! Nobody suggested that in this thread. But both the original article and the clarification were clearly hinting at outlawing the GPL and possibly open source in general.
Talk about a Red herring, the article did not "clearly hint" at outlawing the GPL, rather it hinted that taxpayer money shouldn't be used to fund GPL software. Here's the quote:
In other words, Microsoft representatives warned, "anyone who adds or innovates under the GPL agrees to make the resulting code, in its entirety, available for all to use ... [which] might constrain innovating stemming from taxpayer-funded software development."
I read this as Microsoft saying that if the government releases code under the GPL that many developers will be less likely to use that code because doing so precludes them form making any money. Like it or not, making money is what drives this country.