-- ms has split office v.x into a number of baffling skus, such as an entourage/word combo, a word/excel combo and so on. were sales of these packages counted in the single number they're tossing around?
No, they haven't. While Office 2001 was split into this combo, Office v.X never was. The only combo of MS Office v.X products you can and could ever by is the entire Office suite.
You know that on the remote chance this gets patented:
1. It will be fought and brought down. Many people feel against this, and many huge companies rely on this type of advertising for their profits or revenue.
2. It will be replaced by something even more annoying.
You see this Mac/PC symbolism every once in a while in the media. For example, in the film You've Got Mail , Tom Hanks uses an IBM ThinkPad (symbolizing corporate greed), and Meg Ryan uses an Apple PowerBook (symbolizing the sweet, "Shop around the corner")
I doubt it. Microsoft has already taken away their part of the bargain (AOL on every Windows desktop), and knows it's just a matter of time before AOL removes IE from its browser.
But to how far does that right to protect themselves extend? Does this mean that companies have a right to check our email (which really isn't happening) or go so far as to record the clicks on our ReplayTV (which is) to prevent piracy? I believe that sacrificing privacy to pay for piracy is wrong.
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This seems like a break from that policy.
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-- ms has split office v.x into a number of baffling skus, such as an entourage/word combo, a word/excel combo and so on. were sales of these packages counted in the single number they're tossing around?
No, they haven't. While Office 2001 was split into this combo, Office v.X never was. The only combo of MS Office v.X products you can and could ever by is the entire Office suite.
You know that on the remote chance this gets patented:
1. It will be fought and brought down. Many people feel against this, and many huge companies rely on this type of advertising for their profits or revenue.
2. It will be replaced by something even more annoying.
You see this Mac/PC symbolism every once in a while in the media. For example, in the film You've Got Mail , Tom Hanks uses an IBM ThinkPad (symbolizing corporate greed), and Meg Ryan uses an Apple PowerBook (symbolizing the sweet, "Shop around the corner")
I doubt it. Microsoft has already taken away their part of the bargain (AOL on every Windows desktop), and knows it's just a matter of time before AOL removes IE from its browser.
But to how far does that right to protect themselves extend? Does this mean that companies have a right to check our email (which really isn't happening) or go so far as to record the clicks on our ReplayTV (which is) to prevent piracy? I believe that sacrificing privacy to pay for piracy is wrong.