Microsoft have been a target of a fair amount of hate from the linux and geek communities (see the rest of this thread for examples). Do you think microsoft deserve such hatred and how does it affect the people working at microsoft. For example does being hated by the geek community at large affect morale.
I'm still only primarily interested in them from an academic perspective
Yeah, whatever you need to tell yourself to justify that 18 hours a day you play.
The choice will now become buy an Apple with a Pentium at X mhz for Y dollars or buy a wintel machine with a Pentium at X+10% mhz for Y-20% dollars. Now that they use the same processor comparisons will be so much easier to make. No "real world" fudge factor. Apple sold the G5 computers on being the fastest not just the most easy to use, especially to the science and research community.
Google's core business is now selling advertisement space, (search, googlemaps, gmail are all advertisement space) Microsofts are more or less a pure software company. The core business dont really compete.
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Therefore no more patents can be requested , this is bill's way of ending the ridiculous us patent scheme
http://www.winsupersite.com/ covers upcoming windows innovations: Longhorn/vista betas etc
Microsoft have been a target of a fair amount of hate from the linux and geek communities (see the rest of this thread for examples). Do you think microsoft deserve such hatred and how does it affect the people working at microsoft. For example does being hated by the geek community at large affect morale.
Mod the parent up. When front page stories this banal are posted, I welcome even the worst of troll posts.
I'm still only primarily interested in them from an academic perspective Yeah, whatever you need to tell yourself to justify that 18 hours a day you play.
The choice will now become buy an Apple with a Pentium at X mhz for Y dollars or buy a wintel machine with a Pentium at X+10% mhz for Y-20% dollars. Now that they use the same processor comparisons will be so much easier to make. No "real world"
fudge factor. Apple sold the G5 computers on being the fastest not just the most easy to use, especially to the science and research community.
Google's core business is now selling advertisement space, (search, googlemaps, gmail are all advertisement space) Microsofts are more or less a pure software company. The core business dont really compete.
I can imagine it now a bunch of crazed iPod owners going on a rampage shooting up wintel boxes.
It would land on it's one and only side which is buttered half its length.
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