Coca Cola also couldn't sell New Coke and offered discounts and coupons to make New Coke cheaper in attempts to sell more of it.
Finally faced with reality, Coca Cola took New Coke off the market and replaced it with Coca Cola Classic or Classic Coke.
Once Microsoft figures out that Windows Vista is New Coke, maybe it will do the right thing and offer Windows Classic?
If I was Steve Ballmer or Bill Gates I'd offer the following:
Windows Classic 9X (Based on the Windows 95/98/ME code but with improvements and new drivers for Firewire, USB 2.0, SATA) aimed at the low end consumers market and for upgrades for low-tech and low end systems. Priced at $90USD and $45USD for an upgrade.
Windows Classic NT (Based on Windows 2000/XP code but with improvements and new drivers for Firewire, USB 2.0, SATA) The Home version for $129USD, the Business version for $179, and the Media Center version for $199
Windows Classic Server (Based on Windows 2000 Server/2003 Server code) with server applications, and starting at $300USD for a 10 client license, and offering varied prices based on the number of client licenses.
The Windows Classic 9X I would market towards the low end, people with older systems who cannot run modern operating systems. There are so many older 95, 98, ME systems out there that are not longer patched for security that it leaves them vulnerable to hackers and viruses. Having a new, low cost, version of Windows would stop the viruses and hacking, as well as fit their needs of a low cost operating system because they cannot afford to upgrade the hardware. Of course it won't run 2000/XP or Windows Classic NT software, but there is still plenty of Windows 9X type software out there.
The Windows Classic NT would be marketed towards modern hardware and people who want an OS with more features in it, who don't mind paying extra for it. The Home version is the very basics and the core of the Windows Classic NT OS. Business adds in more supports for networks, logging into a domain, running an ISS web server, etc. Media Center allows better control of media and creating media and sharing it with other devices as a server.
The Windows Classic Server is basically a File, Print, Web, Email, etc general server. I would keep a low cost of $300USD for 10 client licenses so that small businesses can afford it, and then charge more for more client licenses.
Now these Classic operating systems wouldn't have all the features of Vista, and Vista would be kept for those who want to run it. The Classic operating systems would allow security companies to write security software for them like antivirus, firewall, drive encryption, etc.
If Microsoft won't make Windows Classic 9X, just release all of the undocumented 9X API calls so some other company can write a 9X operating system from scratch to cater to those who want to run an older version of Windows.
Really any PC system can run Linux or *BSD Unix, you don't need Mac hardware for that.
The only reason for buying a more expensive system like a Macintosh computer would to be to run Mac OSX on it. Otherwise you can buy PCs with the same hardware cheaper from other vendors sans an OS and install Linux or *BSD Unix whatever on it.
Because this means non-X86 systems can finally run X86 code. Even if it is slow, it is better than not running X86 code at all. I assume it is a virtual X86 CPU in much the same way that MAME and MESS emulate CPUs via software.
I understand that until they are able to fully emulate certain hardware than this could be limited to just DOS programs. I think they at least out to be able to emulate a S3 Virge video card, Sound Blaster 16, Intel Chipset network card, and maybe serial ports with a Hayes compatible modem in order to run some older Windows operating systems in it using a virtual hard drive. Yet until they can at least do some of the GeForce or ATI Radeon virtual graphics cards, it will be hard to do XP and Vista and modern video games.
Just like the old Mac OS (Pre OSX) emulated a 680X0 CPU in software it took a while before PowerMac hardware caught up to allow the 680X0 emulation to be at a decent speed. A pity the same cannot be done to Intel Macs to emulate PowerPC and 680X0 cpus in software because of the big-endian little-endian differences. Although ARDI tried the 680X0 software CPU emulation in Executor they found that trying to do the same for a PowerPC CPU emulation was not as fast.
Still a Java based X86 emulator opens up a lot of possibilities, due to the fact that Java uses a sandbox and if the Java X86 virtual machine gets infected, chances are the host OS won't get infected even if it is a X86 system itself. It could be a good way to study viruses, without risking the host machine.
Sorry I rent new DVDs for $1.25 for a two night rental. That beats Netflix and iTunes. The limitation with Netflix is waiting for DVDs to be mailed to you, might take a few days or a week. I can rent DVDs as quick as I can make it down the block to the video store that gives me my half-off discount for being a loyal customer. No waiting needed, except 15 minutes in the checkout line.
Nope I watch a lot of shows and I watch news channels as well that iTunes does not carry the news or Discovery channel, Science channel, History channel, etc programs either.
I have digital satellite which has a superior picture quality than cable can deliver. I only own one HDTV ready TV, so HDTV is not much of a use to me.
Like I said the iTunes DRM puts me off, and I discovered spyware in iTunes as well. I just do not want Apple crapware on my system, and the fact that it uses DRM and possibly has spyware because it phones home to Apple and my firewall picks it up. Besides I used to use Quicktime and it always crashed my system until I removed it and the system crashes went away. The same thing happened to me when I tried iTunes. Quicktime Alternative is a version of Quicktime that removes the spyware, so others have proven that Quicktime contains spyware. Since Quicktime is a part of iTunes, then iTunes has spyware as well.
Funny the same shows that HBO and Showtime are showing are available for download at iTunes, just not the complete list of movies because Apple didn't get the rights from some movie makers yet.
Plus my Tivo records local programs that iTunes does not even carry. Not to mention sports shows, news casts, special reports, and cable/satellite channels that don't sell their episodes on iTunes yet.
Keep your crapware if you are happy with it, it is cheaper for me to stay with what I got, and I also have more rights and freedom to media content than Apple would ever allow you to have. I mean if you want a lower price and don't mind giving up some of your rights and freedoms, then maybe you deserve to lose them anyway?
Until a level 21 Middle-Manager cast a spell of unemployment on me.
I tried to beg the level 27 Vice-President of IT and the level 35 CEO to help me, but like the level 21 Middle-Manager their alignment was also chaotic evil so they cast a spell of disability and a spell of career-ruining on me instead.
Faced with serious mental and physical illnesses, I became a level 1 disabled person, but kept all of my Programmer/Analyst feats and skills, but I just couldn't use them for employment any more.
I mean if someone admits to using Visual FoxPro they are usually laughed at. I think Visual FoxPro was the software least likely to be installed in the Visual Studio 6.0 and above suite of software.
I think the DOS version of Visual FoxPro was used to create Nursing software to answer questions about becoming an LPN, but after they moved from DOS to Windows they used something else.
If Microsoft wants to impress the open source crowd, they need to open source the core of Microsoft Access and release how the MDB file format works. Now that would be impressive.
"Your honor, I plead not guilty due to a biological problem that I have which makes me amoral. Society cannot expect me to live by morals because I am biologically challenged and it prevents me from following morals."
We already have a classification of this, it is called being a sociopath.
My Tivo and DVD Players are still better values
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Tivo records any program I want, even pay-per-view movies that are cheaper than iTunes movies. If I opt for premium channels I can record all the movies I want from HBO, Showtime, etc for a low monthly fee.
My DVD player allows me to play DVDs I rent from a local video store that rents DVDs cheaper than iTunes sells downloadable movies. All I have to do is wait for a DVD release, and I have half-off membership to rent the DVD for $1.25 instead of $2.50 for a new movie because I am a loyal customer and get the discount as a result.
I don't need to have an Internet connection to use the Tivo or DVD players. In the case of Tivo most of the programming is due to a low cost monthly fee, and I get the Tivo player/recorder for free if I sign up for a year contract.
I don't really use iTunes, so I wouldn't benefit from an AppleTV box. I think that iTunes is ruining the market and locking down what we can and cannot play on our own equipment. We no longer can buy a movie, and we no longer have control over how we can play it and on what device we can play it on. For example my Linux box and third party MP3 player cannot play iTunes files, nor can my Amiga box. Ironically that my G3 iMac runs Mac OS9, and does not have the latest iTunes software for it to use with the AppleTV had I bought one.
AppleTV is a nice idea, I suppose if one buys a lot of iTunes files. I except Microsoft to have a MSNTV in a year or two to compete with AppleTV. I'd suspect they use some sort of Windows CE type device at the $299 or $199 price range, or maybe offer a discount on an XBox 360 if the buying agrees to a one year contract with media subscriptions and get $200 in rebates from the XBox 386 sale.
The limitations of the AppleTV is that it cannot get my satellite programming, cannot play my DVDs (do they expect me to rip them into some format and violate that MPAA agreement?), cannot work with my Linux and Amiga boxes, and limits how many times I can play a file or how long I can play a file due to DRM that isn't present on my Tivo or DVD players.
My Tivo and DVD players allow me to play any media any time I want for as long as I want for how many times I want to play it. AppleTV does not, so I don't need AppleTV.
What? Do you know how much money it costs to fix the bugs? Wait until next year when they release the Vista SP1 update. The bugs are a low priority because they still have Vista Server to bring out.
We need that. I am a former IT guy who went for a business management degree. I graduated with honors. Flowcharts are used for quality control and productivity classes in improving workflow and tasks. Most business management students don't understand how flowcharts work, but I am a former programmer and I live and breathe flowcharts. I might go for my MBA after I pay my bachelors degree off. The business management taught in most colleges today is the "Participatory Management" and not the "Classical Management" that most PHBs and managers suffer from. It is the better way to do things and avoids a lot of mistakes that "Classical Management" makes.
It is funny, because I wrote articles using examples from my former workplaces on how not to do things, and how I'd change things so they'd work better and why they would work better. The many times I made almost the same suggestions to managers they were shot down, but in college I proved that they would work and be better.
It is "Classic Management" promoted by the Pointy Haired Bosses that cause most of the problems in IT today. What we need are a new breed of managers that understand IT and participate in the IT work that is being done. "Participatory Management" is the new 21st century management and "Classic Management" is the 12th century management when managers were slave owners and slave drivers who didn't understand what their workers are doing and thus cannot manage them properly.
Managers need to get out of the Middle Ages and join the rest of us in Modern Times.
So based on your logic, I can write a program that you will use that spies on you, and captures your private information and send it back to my computer to do with it whatever I please, because I own the program I wrote?
So does Microsoft. So does Spyware, Adware, Trojan, Worm, and other Virus writers own the program that steals your data, fucks up your system, and causes system crashes. You claim because they own the program, and someone wants to block it with a Firewall, that they don't have the right to block such programs? If they force you to send data back to them in order to do an update, you don't have a problem with "malware" that does that.
That is like saying you don't mind the Cable TV company coming into your house and eat your food, read your personal diary, leave a big mess, clog up the toilet, sodomize you and your dog, etc because they own the program that controls the programs you want to watch on your Cable TV system?
Most makers of spyware are supposed to give their users an opt-out option in order to be legal. Where is the opt-out option in updating Windows without phoning home?
Can you set a firewall to block the phoning home, and if so would the updates still work?
the Microsoft Anti-Phishing filter fails to find web sites selling OEM versions of Microsoft's software if the user makes a typo in the URL to any of the Microsoft web sites. Offering Office 2007 Ultimate edition for $50, Vista Ultimate for $65, and other discounts on so called OEM software that is really pirated versions of Microsoft software and the personal information is sold and used for identity theft so the buyer gets burned twice.
You'd think that, over the years, that Apple would have created their own version of Office software that works with MS-Office file formats like OpenOffice.org did? Or at least work with OpenOffice.Org to bundle OOO with OSX instead of MS-Office and break that stranglehold Microsoft has on Macintosh users forcing them to use MS-Office for Macintosh?
Odd, Microsoft does not make MS-Office for Linux, *BSD Unix, Solaris, and other operating systems and it does not even seem to harm them and their marketshare keeps increasing anyway. I highly doubt that dropping MS-Office for the Macintosh would harm Apple, it would more likely harm Microsoft because Microsoft just cut out a lot of profits from the sales of MS-Office for the Macintosh.
Logically it would make good business sense for Microsoft to make MS-Office for other platforms as well, which would increase their profits.
Just make versions of the Macintosh with Vista or XP pre-installed on them and make OSX optional.
Apple just has to be a better vendor than Dell, Compaq, IBM, HP, Gateway, etc. and other PC makers as well.
Apple needs to advertise more than Intel Macs can run Windows as well as OSX, and offer an option to buy the Intel Macs with Windows on them instead of OSX, or at least a dual-boot configuration with OSX and Windows on the same hard drive with two different partitions.
Apple also needs to adopt Novel Mono for OSX, to allow Visual Studio.Net developers to port their applications to the OSX platform using C# and Visual BASIC just like they do on Windows. Most corporations write their own custom applications in C# or Visual BASIC anyway. Usually they don't use Macintoshes because the Macs cannot run C# or Visual BASIC code or even run Visual Studio. Mono is Visual Studio compatible.
Vista is really like Rosie O'Donnell, fat, lazy, foul-mouthed, lesbian man-hater, ugly, eats too much, and has a loud mouth.
But Vista comes with beer goggles so that while it is Rosie O'Donnell it looks like Marilyn Monroe, and even though you know that is impossible, the beer goggles make you accept it anyway.
Not only that but Rosie O'Donnell came with an iron clad contract so you cannot fire her or use a different OS or use her in a virtual machine, in fact you signed it because it is the EULA and you thought it was harmless at the time, but now you are forced to have her running your life for you and accepting her upgrades (service packs) even if they continue to pack on the pounds on her and cause her to take up more room.
You think you got Marilyn Monroe, but you are stuck with Rosie O'Donnell.
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Still it would be running an older copy of OSX, and the user will be having security issues unless he/she upgrades to the latest version.
I suppose if you want to run OSX 10.3 or 10.2 on a newer Mac, why should Apple stop you from shooting yourself in the foot?
I know about it, but it isn't even in beta test yet. It can only run a limited number of Windows applications as well.
Until it runs Worlds of Warcraft and all the expansions, my Gamehead Brother will stick with XP and maybe move to Vista, and so will other Gameheads.
Coca Cola also couldn't sell New Coke and offered discounts and coupons to make New Coke cheaper in attempts to sell more of it.
Finally faced with reality, Coca Cola took New Coke off the market and replaced it with Coca Cola Classic or Classic Coke.
Once Microsoft figures out that Windows Vista is New Coke, maybe it will do the right thing and offer Windows Classic?
If I was Steve Ballmer or Bill Gates I'd offer the following:
Windows Classic 9X (Based on the Windows 95/98/ME code but with improvements and new drivers for Firewire, USB 2.0, SATA) aimed at the low end consumers market and for upgrades for low-tech and low end systems. Priced at $90USD and $45USD for an upgrade.
Windows Classic NT (Based on Windows 2000/XP code but with improvements and new drivers for Firewire, USB 2.0, SATA) The Home version for $129USD, the Business version for $179, and the Media Center version for $199
Windows Classic Server (Based on Windows 2000 Server/2003 Server code) with server applications, and starting at $300USD for a 10 client license, and offering varied prices based on the number of client licenses.
The Windows Classic 9X I would market towards the low end, people with older systems who cannot run modern operating systems. There are so many older 95, 98, ME systems out there that are not longer patched for security that it leaves them vulnerable to hackers and viruses. Having a new, low cost, version of Windows would stop the viruses and hacking, as well as fit their needs of a low cost operating system because they cannot afford to upgrade the hardware. Of course it won't run 2000/XP or Windows Classic NT software, but there is still plenty of Windows 9X type software out there.
The Windows Classic NT would be marketed towards modern hardware and people who want an OS with more features in it, who don't mind paying extra for it. The Home version is the very basics and the core of the Windows Classic NT OS. Business adds in more supports for networks, logging into a domain, running an ISS web server, etc. Media Center allows better control of media and creating media and sharing it with other devices as a server.
The Windows Classic Server is basically a File, Print, Web, Email, etc general server. I would keep a low cost of $300USD for 10 client licenses so that small businesses can afford it, and then charge more for more client licenses.
Now these Classic operating systems wouldn't have all the features of Vista, and Vista would be kept for those who want to run it. The Classic operating systems would allow security companies to write security software for them like antivirus, firewall, drive encryption, etc.
If Microsoft won't make Windows Classic 9X, just release all of the undocumented 9X API calls so some other company can write a 9X operating system from scratch to cater to those who want to run an older version of Windows.
Really any PC system can run Linux or *BSD Unix, you don't need Mac hardware for that.
The only reason for buying a more expensive system like a Macintosh computer would to be to run Mac OSX on it. Otherwise you can buy PCs with the same hardware cheaper from other vendors sans an OS and install Linux or *BSD Unix whatever on it.
Must be a coincidence that is how Vista reacted when I put it into a Virtual Machine, it blue screened too!
Could it have to do with the fact that both Vista and ReactOS are unfinished operating systems?
Because this means non-X86 systems can finally run X86 code. Even if it is slow, it is better than not running X86 code at all. I assume it is a virtual X86 CPU in much the same way that MAME and MESS emulate CPUs via software.
I understand that until they are able to fully emulate certain hardware than this could be limited to just DOS programs. I think they at least out to be able to emulate a S3 Virge video card, Sound Blaster 16, Intel Chipset network card, and maybe serial ports with a Hayes compatible modem in order to run some older Windows operating systems in it using a virtual hard drive. Yet until they can at least do some of the GeForce or ATI Radeon virtual graphics cards, it will be hard to do XP and Vista and modern video games.
Just like the old Mac OS (Pre OSX) emulated a 680X0 CPU in software it took a while before PowerMac hardware caught up to allow the 680X0 emulation to be at a decent speed. A pity the same cannot be done to Intel Macs to emulate PowerPC and 680X0 cpus in software because of the big-endian little-endian differences. Although ARDI tried the 680X0 software CPU emulation in Executor they found that trying to do the same for a PowerPC CPU emulation was not as fast.
Still a Java based X86 emulator opens up a lot of possibilities, due to the fact that Java uses a sandbox and if the Java X86 virtual machine gets infected, chances are the host OS won't get infected even if it is a X86 system itself. It could be a good way to study viruses, without risking the host machine.
At first I thought Microsoft would make MSNTV to counter AppleTV, but turns out AppleTV was created to counter MSNTV instead.
that I can get over my mental and physical illnesses caused by years of abuse from my former job, and get back into the work force one day.
Maybe I can make it to Disabled Person level 13 and get my old skills and feats back.
Sorry I rent new DVDs for $1.25 for a two night rental. That beats Netflix and iTunes. The limitation with Netflix is waiting for DVDs to be mailed to you, might take a few days or a week. I can rent DVDs as quick as I can make it down the block to the video store that gives me my half-off discount for being a loyal customer. No waiting needed, except 15 minutes in the checkout line.
I can run a packet scanner on the iTunes data being sent back to Apple, I did it before and found my personal info in it. It is not anonymous, and even if it was it is still Spyware. Spyware found in iTunes is but one article on it. Another spyware article on iTunes another one on CNet
Sorry I don't want Spyware on my system. Apple is unethical for doing that. It has been verified that iTunes phones home.
Nope I watch a lot of shows and I watch news channels as well that iTunes does not carry the news or Discovery channel, Science channel, History channel, etc programs either.
I have digital satellite which has a superior picture quality than cable can deliver. I only own one HDTV ready TV, so HDTV is not much of a use to me.
Like I said the iTunes DRM puts me off, and I discovered spyware in iTunes as well. I just do not want Apple crapware on my system, and the fact that it uses DRM and possibly has spyware because it phones home to Apple and my firewall picks it up. Besides I used to use Quicktime and it always crashed my system until I removed it and the system crashes went away. The same thing happened to me when I tried iTunes. Quicktime Alternative is a version of Quicktime that removes the spyware, so others have proven that Quicktime contains spyware. Since Quicktime is a part of iTunes, then iTunes has spyware as well.
Funny the same shows that HBO and Showtime are showing are available for download at iTunes, just not the complete list of movies because Apple didn't get the rights from some movie makers yet.
Plus my Tivo records local programs that iTunes does not even carry. Not to mention sports shows, news casts, special reports, and cable/satellite channels that don't sell their episodes on iTunes yet.
Keep your crapware if you are happy with it, it is cheaper for me to stay with what I got, and I also have more rights and freedom to media content than Apple would ever allow you to have. I mean if you want a lower price and don't mind giving up some of your rights and freedoms, then maybe you deserve to lose them anyway?
Until a level 21 Middle-Manager cast a spell of unemployment on me.
I tried to beg the level 27 Vice-President of IT and the level 35 CEO to help me, but like the level 21 Middle-Manager their alignment was also chaotic evil so they cast a spell of disability and a spell of career-ruining on me instead.
Faced with serious mental and physical illnesses, I became a level 1 disabled person, but kept all of my Programmer/Analyst feats and skills, but I just couldn't use them for employment any more.
I mean if someone admits to using Visual FoxPro they are usually laughed at. I think Visual FoxPro was the software least likely to be installed in the Visual Studio 6.0 and above suite of software.
I think the DOS version of Visual FoxPro was used to create Nursing software to answer questions about becoming an LPN, but after they moved from DOS to Windows they used something else.
If Microsoft wants to impress the open source crowd, they need to open source the core of Microsoft Access and release how the MDB file format works. Now that would be impressive.
"Your honor, I plead not guilty due to a biological problem that I have which makes me amoral. Society cannot expect me to live by morals because I am biologically challenged and it prevents me from following morals."
We already have a classification of this, it is called being a sociopath.
Tivo records any program I want, even pay-per-view movies that are cheaper than iTunes movies. If I opt for premium channels I can record all the movies I want from HBO, Showtime, etc for a low monthly fee.
My DVD player allows me to play DVDs I rent from a local video store that rents DVDs cheaper than iTunes sells downloadable movies. All I have to do is wait for a DVD release, and I have half-off membership to rent the DVD for $1.25 instead of $2.50 for a new movie because I am a loyal customer and get the discount as a result.
I don't need to have an Internet connection to use the Tivo or DVD players. In the case of Tivo most of the programming is due to a low cost monthly fee, and I get the Tivo player/recorder for free if I sign up for a year contract.
I don't really use iTunes, so I wouldn't benefit from an AppleTV box. I think that iTunes is ruining the market and locking down what we can and cannot play on our own equipment. We no longer can buy a movie, and we no longer have control over how we can play it and on what device we can play it on. For example my Linux box and third party MP3 player cannot play iTunes files, nor can my Amiga box. Ironically that my G3 iMac runs Mac OS9, and does not have the latest iTunes software for it to use with the AppleTV had I bought one.
AppleTV is a nice idea, I suppose if one buys a lot of iTunes files. I except Microsoft to have a MSNTV in a year or two to compete with AppleTV. I'd suspect they use some sort of Windows CE type device at the $299 or $199 price range, or maybe offer a discount on an XBox 360 if the buying agrees to a one year contract with media subscriptions and get $200 in rebates from the XBox 386 sale.
The limitations of the AppleTV is that it cannot get my satellite programming, cannot play my DVDs (do they expect me to rip them into some format and violate that MPAA agreement?), cannot work with my Linux and Amiga boxes, and limits how many times I can play a file or how long I can play a file due to DRM that isn't present on my Tivo or DVD players.
My Tivo and DVD players allow me to play any media any time I want for as long as I want for how many times I want to play it. AppleTV does not, so I don't need AppleTV.
What? Do you know how much money it costs to fix the bugs? Wait until next year when they release the Vista SP1 update. The bugs are a low priority because they still have Vista Server to bring out.
We need that. I am a former IT guy who went for a business management degree. I graduated with honors. Flowcharts are used for quality control and productivity classes in improving workflow and tasks. Most business management students don't understand how flowcharts work, but I am a former programmer and I live and breathe flowcharts. I might go for my MBA after I pay my bachelors degree off. The business management taught in most colleges today is the "Participatory Management" and not the "Classical Management" that most PHBs and managers suffer from. It is the better way to do things and avoids a lot of mistakes that "Classical Management" makes.
It is funny, because I wrote articles using examples from my former workplaces on how not to do things, and how I'd change things so they'd work better and why they would work better. The many times I made almost the same suggestions to managers they were shot down, but in college I proved that they would work and be better.
It is "Classic Management" promoted by the Pointy Haired Bosses that cause most of the problems in IT today. What we need are a new breed of managers that understand IT and participate in the IT work that is being done. "Participatory Management" is the new 21st century management and "Classic Management" is the 12th century management when managers were slave owners and slave drivers who didn't understand what their workers are doing and thus cannot manage them properly.
Managers need to get out of the Middle Ages and join the rest of us in Modern Times.
So based on your logic, I can write a program that you will use that spies on you, and captures your private information and send it back to my computer to do with it whatever I please, because I own the program I wrote?
So does Microsoft. So does Spyware, Adware, Trojan, Worm, and other Virus writers own the program that steals your data, fucks up your system, and causes system crashes. You claim because they own the program, and someone wants to block it with a Firewall, that they don't have the right to block such programs? If they force you to send data back to them in order to do an update, you don't have a problem with "malware" that does that.
That is like saying you don't mind the Cable TV company coming into your house and eat your food, read your personal diary, leave a big mess, clog up the toilet, sodomize you and your dog, etc because they own the program that controls the programs you want to watch on your Cable TV system?
this story is proof of that.
Newspapers used to do the same thing for Abe Vigoda announcing that he was dead too.
Sindbad the comedian ought to play Sindbad the sailor in an action adventure movie with some comedy in it.
for a class action lawsuit.
Most makers of spyware are supposed to give their users an opt-out option in order to be legal. Where is the opt-out option in updating Windows without phoning home?
Can you set a firewall to block the phoning home, and if so would the updates still work?
the Microsoft Anti-Phishing filter fails to find web sites selling OEM versions of Microsoft's software if the user makes a typo in the URL to any of the Microsoft web sites. Offering Office 2007 Ultimate edition for $50, Vista Ultimate for $65, and other discounts on so called OEM software that is really pirated versions of Microsoft software and the personal information is sold and used for identity theft so the buyer gets burned twice.
Research shows that Linux is gaining on Microsoft as of the year 2000 yet there doesn't seem to be any MS-Office for Linux.
The trend seems to be continuing in 2005 and I would guess 2006 as well if the numbers finally come in for 2006.
You'd think that, over the years, that Apple would have created their own version of Office software that works with MS-Office file formats like OpenOffice.org did? Or at least work with OpenOffice.Org to bundle OOO with OSX instead of MS-Office and break that stranglehold Microsoft has on Macintosh users forcing them to use MS-Office for Macintosh?
Odd, Microsoft does not make MS-Office for Linux, *BSD Unix, Solaris, and other operating systems and it does not even seem to harm them and their marketshare keeps increasing anyway. I highly doubt that dropping MS-Office for the Macintosh would harm Apple, it would more likely harm Microsoft because Microsoft just cut out a lot of profits from the sales of MS-Office for the Macintosh.
Logically it would make good business sense for Microsoft to make MS-Office for other platforms as well, which would increase their profits.
Just make versions of the Macintosh with Vista or XP pre-installed on them and make OSX optional.
Apple just has to be a better vendor than Dell, Compaq, IBM, HP, Gateway, etc. and other PC makers as well.
Apple needs to advertise more than Intel Macs can run Windows as well as OSX, and offer an option to buy the Intel Macs with Windows on them instead of OSX, or at least a dual-boot configuration with OSX and Windows on the same hard drive with two different partitions.
Apple also needs to adopt Novel Mono for OSX, to allow Visual Studio.Net developers to port their applications to the OSX platform using C# and Visual BASIC just like they do on Windows. Most corporations write their own custom applications in C# or Visual BASIC anyway. Usually they don't use Macintoshes because the Macs cannot run C# or Visual BASIC code or even run Visual Studio. Mono is Visual Studio compatible.
Vista is really like Rosie O'Donnell, fat, lazy, foul-mouthed, lesbian man-hater, ugly, eats too much, and has a loud mouth.
But Vista comes with beer goggles so that while it is Rosie O'Donnell it looks like Marilyn Monroe, and even though you know that is impossible, the beer goggles make you accept it anyway.
Not only that but Rosie O'Donnell came with an iron clad contract so you cannot fire her or use a different OS or use her in a virtual machine, in fact you signed it because it is the EULA and you thought it was harmless at the time, but now you are forced to have her running your life for you and accepting her upgrades (service packs) even if they continue to pack on the pounds on her and cause her to take up more room.
You think you got Marilyn Monroe, but you are stuck with Rosie O'Donnell.