Are there companies out there which nobody break in so far? Yes. Are there companies which you will securely give your personal data? Yes. Then would it make it better to build a system as secure as one of these companies, or maybe even better? Yes.
"After all the Internet should be a decentralised place!"
You can still decentralize personal data in internet while everything is under one company's control. Example Akamai!
Why the creator of Windows should go down, and why someonelse profit from this. For the price of a product, do you know the fact that if you buy as a group you always get a discout for almost any product. This is a usual practice in economics, but this shouldn't apply to Microsoft products right?
Would you like your personal data to be stored in many places rather than in one place, even if it is Microsoft. I think that, without considering this Microsoft hate, it is a brilliant idea. You keep in one place, you sign in to multiple stores on the net and your data is more secure than ever. Because only one company keeps your data. Otherwise hacking into company websites and getting credit cards will continue. Of course you can reasonably argue that why that one company is Microsoft, instead of an independent organization. This will be an excellent question, but just to bash Microsoft saying that the idea is wrong shows your capability of understanding the real problem. Maintaining this data over many places is a pain and risk for the consumers.
You can run.NET in your Solaris, Linux and MacOS if you have the virtual machine, and sooner or later you will have..NET code which is written in C# and compiled into the intermediate language can be run in any system.
Your hate towards Microsoft leads to your ignorance. Unfortunately without knowing details about.net and C# people try to jum wrong conclusions and they think that they sound right, because they bash Microsoft which is the right thing to do!
I think being a Microsoft basher do not produce any quality for anybody. You need to be more specific when you are bashing Microsoft.
Microsoft products are still one of the best including many aspects of a software product. Support, Cost of acquistion, Security and so on. I think it would be wrong and misleading to say that their products are the worst. I personally see that most of the news about Microsoft products are simply not true, or even if they are true, they are regular issues which not only apply to Microsoft products but also to all others, and may apply to other software more than they apply to Microsoft products. This also includes the security.
So in overall if Microsoft looses I believe the consumers will loose, because other companies which are the competitiors of the microsoft will dominate and this will lead to higher prices. Think about the browser wars, if Microsoft did not exit, Internet will never be the same. It will take more time to come to our current point. Microsoft forced Netscape to give away its browser as free, and this benefited the consumers. It didn't eliminate any choice. Netscape itself wasn't very successful. They didn't developed better browsers and they were sold to AOL which stopped the development totally. The founder of Netscape was also founder of SGI, and we know what happened to SGI. Why nobody look at it this way, I don't know.
I think you don't see the point that, if you are a programmer you want a lightweight solution which is supported in all the systems that you are targeting. If you think for a minute, you will see that the best option is from Microsoft. Embedding Gecko seems attractive, but is it supported by a big company. No? You can play the game that it doesn't matter, but it matters for programmers.
There is no difference between Apple and Microsoft in the sense that you can use any browser you want just like you can. I can use Netscape, Mozilla, Opera and so on.
Microsoft doesn't make anything difficult. You can use any browser instead of IE. The only issue here is that it is built into the operating system, so many programs can take advantage of this feature. Some people say this is anti competitive because it prevents other companies to develop a business.
What's your point? Before following the mob ask questions!
Yes OS X still works when you remove IE.
But is it possible to write a program like Napster, KAzaa which has a built-in browser and that browser is one of the best? No, because OS X doesn't have a built-in browser. It lacks that feature and that's why more programmers write programs for Windows rather than OS X.
Comparing OS X and Windows this way doesn't make a single sense at all. The reason why browser is built-in is because programmers need it. For example Java Development Kit also comes with classes which partially support HTML parsing and showing. This is because Java programmers need a component in their programs to show HTML. There were solutions for HTML viewing long time ago even SUN didn't ship this feature with the standard clasess. Does that mean SUN is anti-competitive.
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I want MacOS X without Quikctime built into the operating system.
"After all the Internet should be a decentralised place!"
You can still decentralize personal data in internet while everything is under one company's control. Example Akamai!
Why the creator of Windows should go down, and why someonelse profit from this. For the price of a product, do you know the fact that if you buy as a group you always get a discout for almost any product. This is a usual practice in economics, but this shouldn't apply to Microsoft products right?
Would you like your personal data to be stored in many places rather than in one place, even if it is Microsoft. I think that, without considering this Microsoft hate, it is a brilliant idea. You keep in one place, you sign in to multiple stores on the net and your data is more secure than ever. Because only one company keeps your data. Otherwise hacking into company websites and getting credit cards will continue. Of course you can reasonably argue that why that one company is Microsoft, instead of an independent organization. This will be an excellent question, but just to bash Microsoft saying that the idea is wrong shows your capability of understanding the real problem. Maintaining this data over many places is a pain and risk for the consumers.
Your hate towards Microsoft leads to your ignorance. Unfortunately without knowing details about .net and C# people try to jum wrong conclusions and they think that they sound right, because they bash Microsoft which is the right thing to do!
Microsoft products are still one of the best including many aspects of a software product. Support, Cost of acquistion, Security and so on. I think it would be wrong and misleading to say that their products are the worst. I personally see that most of the news about Microsoft products are simply not true, or even if they are true, they are regular issues which not only apply to Microsoft products but also to all others, and may apply to other software more than they apply to Microsoft products. This also includes the security.
So in overall if Microsoft looses I believe the consumers will loose, because other companies which are the competitiors of the microsoft will dominate and this will lead to higher prices. Think about the browser wars, if Microsoft did not exit, Internet will never be the same. It will take more time to come to our current point. Microsoft forced Netscape to give away its browser as free, and this benefited the consumers. It didn't eliminate any choice. Netscape itself wasn't very successful. They didn't developed better browsers and they were sold to AOL which stopped the development totally. The founder of Netscape was also founder of SGI, and we know what happened to SGI. Why nobody look at it this way, I don't know.
I think you don't see the point that, if you are a programmer you want a lightweight solution which is supported in all the systems that you are targeting. If you think for a minute, you will see that the best option is from Microsoft. Embedding Gecko seems attractive, but is it supported by a big company. No? You can play the game that it doesn't matter, but it matters for programmers.
Microsoft doesn't make anything difficult. You can use any browser instead of IE. The only issue here is that it is built into the operating system, so many programs can take advantage of this feature. Some people say this is anti competitive because it prevents other companies to develop a business.
What's your point? Before following the mob ask questions!
Yes OS X still works when you remove IE. But is it possible to write a program like Napster, KAzaa which has a built-in browser and that browser is one of the best? No, because OS X doesn't have a built-in browser. It lacks that feature and that's why more programmers write programs for Windows rather than OS X. Comparing OS X and Windows this way doesn't make a single sense at all. The reason why browser is built-in is because programmers need it. For example Java Development Kit also comes with classes which partially support HTML parsing and showing. This is because Java programmers need a component in their programs to show HTML. There were solutions for HTML viewing long time ago even SUN didn't ship this feature with the standard clasess. Does that mean SUN is anti-competitive.
Did you notice that the Microsoft's web server is far more faster than the Free BSD?