Nice, you dodged answering the criticism by talking about a company that isn't either Apple or Microsoft and then you bullshitted your way through another few paragraphs talking about anything but the point of my reply. The original statement I replied to, which was pretty clear to see, was "They (Microsoft) may still have market share but that is mostly in the Business space."
Again, what evidence is there to support this contention since Apple's own figures show no tangible growth in either the business or home space? By what metric is Microsoft's dominance now "mostly" in the business space? Is there an market shattering explosion in Mac consumer level computer sales that no one but you are aware of?
I agree. I think Microsoft is scared of Apple's dominance in the "public image" department as being cool. They may still have market share but that is mostly in the Business space.
Lay off the crack. By getting off the pipe, you won't make idiotic statements like these in the future...unless market share is measured by lame commercials with dork actors.
The average North American is captured 26 times every day by a surveillance camera, whether operated by a business or government. In London, the rate is far higher given the huge amount of cameras. And yet people demand even more cameras in some misguided belief it makes them safer.
So are you upset by the fact that Microsoft may have your image (or an image of a house) or the principle in general? Me thinks its more the former.
Wow, another day, another Slashdot "article" sniping at Microsoft and Vista. This is getting very tiresome.
I'll bet there are more people running Vista already than Linux.
Am I the only one who was utterly underwhelmed by those five products? Most seemed to try and solve multiple problems poorly instead of solving one or two very nicely.
Am I the only one who would rather have higher quality content than a higher quality picture?
Other than sports, I'm really not interested in paying a premium so I can watch the same crap except now I get to see all the facial blemishes of the talent.
I have this same problem with Firefox 2.0 on multiple machines. It just decides to hang and I get to wait until it resumes operating. That never happened with FF 1.5.
It reminds me of how Canada, land of my birth, views itself and its relationship to the U.S.
It does somethings better, others worse. It will never admit what it does worse or will even defend it as a strength.
It's arrogant and sanctimonious even though it often has its heart in the right place. Other times it's naive in thinking that because it believes *its* way is right, it *must* be so.
It mocks the U.S. as backwards, even displaying a near pathological hatred for it, yet it secretly wishes it could hold the same lofty perch.
Now replace "It's/It" with "FOSS" and "U.S." with "Microsoft".
Frankly, what turns me off about the FOSS community in general is it reminds me of the science acolytes in the recent South Park episode when Cartman traveled to the future. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. If Linux were king it would be Microsoft redux.
Feel free to mod me down, I have plenty of karma to burn.
Checked one out yesterday, the 60's Soviet looking shit-brown one. The screen is gorgeous but the unit itself is OMG XOBX HUEG. What's with Microsoft and huge hardware? It is too big and bulky to be carried in my pocket.
Wait a minute. This thing's dimensions are only slightly larger than today's iPods and only marginally heavier and it's considered huge? Does that mean the older iPods which were proclaimed pocket-sized and are bigger than the Zune are now considered gigantic monsters?
Nice re-imagining of reality.
Personally, I predict the real show-stopper will be a surprise price reduction from Apple. Seriously, if they knocked Leopard *down* to $99 or something, Microsoft would be looking really bad.
Yes, just imagine all the Mac owners who were waiting for Vista. Now they'll have to make do with OS X running on their Apple-branded computers.
How exactly is this going to affect Microsoft exactly? You really think the average Wintel user takes notice of Apple OS pricing?
But you infer that he is alone in his decision.
There are a lot of huge business who buy thousands of bulk licenses, and they are MS' favorite customers.
But worldwide, there are probably millions of small businesses who are subject to the same decision; that will impact MS VERY significantly.
Whatever. I hear this bull every time a new version of Microsoft's is released or some change comes along that has people like the OP whining and the end result is record sales of that same OS.
I notice a decided lack of responses to this post. You know why? Because Linux users never have a real response for stuff like this other than "Run it under WINE!!!1!!"
Back in the mid-90s I interviewed the drummer from Cannibal Corpse and he told me his favourite artist was Alanis Morissette. Who gives a rat's ass if someone likes NKOTB and Metallica? On my computer Kylie Minogue shares hard drive space with KMFDM...life goes on.
Bundling IE had essentially knocked Netscape off the browser throne
Good to know Netscape's incredibly crappy software had nothing to do with it. Thanks for the history lesson but disatisfaction with Netscape also played a not inconsiderable role.
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Can someone mod TheRealMindChild down? Truth isn't allowed on Slashdot.
Again, what evidence is there to support this contention since Apple's own figures show no tangible growth in either the business or home space? By what metric is Microsoft's dominance now "mostly" in the business space? Is there an market shattering explosion in Mac consumer level computer sales that no one but you are aware of?
If it's that significant then Slashdot should have covered the release when it actually happened...yesterday.
Of course, since we don't have the source, we don't know if uTorrent can surreptitiously download "improvements" mandated by the new owners.
The average North American is captured 26 times every day by a surveillance camera, whether operated by a business or government. In London, the rate is far higher given the huge amount of cameras. And yet people demand even more cameras in some misguided belief it makes them safer. So are you upset by the fact that Microsoft may have your image (or an image of a house) or the principle in general? Me thinks its more the former.
Wow, another day, another Slashdot "article" sniping at Microsoft and Vista. This is getting very tiresome. I'll bet there are more people running Vista already than Linux.
Am I the only one who was utterly underwhelmed by those five products? Most seemed to try and solve multiple problems poorly instead of solving one or two very nicely.
No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.
Am I the only one who would rather have higher quality content than a higher quality picture? Other than sports, I'm really not interested in paying a premium so I can watch the same crap except now I get to see all the facial blemishes of the talent.
I have this same problem with Firefox 2.0 on multiple machines. It just decides to hang and I get to wait until it resumes operating. That never happened with FF 1.5.
It reminds me of how Canada, land of my birth, views itself and its relationship to the U.S.
It does somethings better, others worse. It will never admit what it does worse or will even defend it as a strength.
It's arrogant and sanctimonious even though it often has its heart in the right place. Other times it's naive in thinking that because it believes *its* way is right, it *must* be so.
It mocks the U.S. as backwards, even displaying a near pathological hatred for it, yet it secretly wishes it could hold the same lofty perch.
Now replace "It's/It" with "FOSS" and "U.S." with "Microsoft".
Frankly, what turns me off about the FOSS community in general is it reminds me of the science acolytes in the recent South Park episode when Cartman traveled to the future. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. If Linux were king it would be Microsoft redux.
Feel free to mod me down, I have plenty of karma to burn.
My apology, I thought you meant the DVD player was $40. That will teach me to read more closely.
Interesting assertion given that I'm doing precisely that with my DVD recorder and DVD players.
The best post I've read today on Slashdot. I wish I had mod points for you.
How exactly is this going to affect Microsoft exactly? You really think the average Wintel user takes notice of Apple OS pricing?
I guess you missed the last few episodes. He lives and works in San Diego.
I notice a decided lack of responses to this post. You know why? Because Linux users never have a real response for stuff like this other than "Run it under WINE!!!1!!"
Back in the mid-90s I interviewed the drummer from Cannibal Corpse and he told me his favourite artist was Alanis Morissette. Who gives a rat's ass if someone likes NKOTB and Metallica? On my computer Kylie Minogue shares hard drive space with KMFDM...life goes on.
Netcraft confirms it: 2006 is the year of heavy Linux desktop penetration!