I don't recall anyone, well anyone apart from the odd slashdotter, chuckling when Microsoft got their clock cleaned in the Eolas suit, despite the silliness of the suit, all the prior art and all the support they received from the industry. For a small to medium sized company a patent decision against you could well be the end. So I would say there is very little frivolity involved in facing a patent action.
Apparently its ok for Google to chuck cash at Mozilla to default to them, but they dont want the terms of the deal disclosed? Dodgy. Imagine the screaming hissy fits about conspiracy if Microsoft brokered a similar deal with Opera to default to whatever MS call their seach engine these days (yes I know Google got there first as well).
(1996-2007) is definitely the year of Linux on the desktop. (Apparently if you recite this one enough times it will become true)
XXXX product from MS is doomed to failure for no particularly logical reason despite the fact we really know nothing about it but we love unfounded speculation.
MS is on the verge of collapse because little bobbie just started a project in sourceforge and although it has not released anything yet it will be an XP/Exchange/Outlook/SQLServer etc etc etc killer when they do and so the MS Evil Empire will crumble.
I pointed out the mistake before you did. Do I win a prize?
Well given the context of your error, you are a prize. A prize twat, but a prize none the less.
There's a big difference, by the way, between making a single mistake and pointing it out almost immediately in a lone Slashdot discussion (as I did), versus making multiple mistakes, while not bothering to correct any, in holding worldwide search engines for ransom.
Well given you criticize the quality of English from non native speakers and then proceed to make several grammatical errors (not all corrected) in your comments methinks the lady doth protest too much.
In either case, I applaud your thoroughness in not bothering to read the replies to my post before flinging one of yours on the wall. (I'll leave the examination of the semantics of my last sentence as an exercise for the reader).
I read your reply, having already noticed your error. Your comment was still fair game since having been so quick and offtopic to criticize others you then immediately displayed the very same failings you criticize. Priceless!
Microsoft conducted the raids by sending a dummy customer into the stores asking for a copy of Windows be installed on their PC.
Does this sound like a raid to you? Door smashed down? No. Building stormed by agents? No. Goods Seized? No. People arrested? No. Shops closed? No. The whole article is yet more of the inaccurate drivel Slashdot like to perpetuate.
Developers can deal with looking at tables and grids full of data to make decisions and get things done, but other types of workers (executives, salespeople, etc.) have little to no attention span and need a picture to be worth a thousand words, i.e. their software designed completely differently.
The attention span of executives, salespeople, etc. is perfectly in fine. What they have in most cases is badly designed software often due to the 'attentive' developers who failed to gather or understand the correct requirements and then delivered a poor and inflexible implementation of this misunderstanding which does not deliver the information they really require.
These people don't need their software designed completely differently, they just need it designed better.
Well the tech.blorge link is certainly one of the lamest attempts I have seen to have a dig at MS. I mean seriously with all the ammunition they provide the best this loser can come up with is 'conceptual similarities' between a fucking dayglo pink duck and a penguin.
What a site. Check out the second image down.I think its pretty clear from that what women are really looking for and its obviously not polite dance invites.
At first glance it's legal, they have been very careful to say user generated content, so expect to see lots of poor quality video of knobs behaving like only knobs can. Unfortunately all too many people confuse user uploaded third party content with user generated so they can actually have some decent content on the site(thats their no censorship clause kicking in). Thats when the legality starts to crumble.
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all corporate appointments now or was this just a bit of character assassination too tempting to pass up?
I wonder if Microsoft is still going to complain about Google's purchase of Doubleclick....
Well to be fair in this case MS did have a point. DoubleClick gives a lot of insider track knowledge to Google and they do have the existing infrastructure to leverage it to squeeze out competitors should they choose. For this reason I did think that Google wanted DoubleClick more than MS and were prepared to pay over the odds to acquire it despite the talk of MS just trying to drive the price up. It's interesting now that having baulked at the DoubleClick price MS are now paying almost double for this acquisition. I don't know if Aquantive is a better fit for them or if they have just decided to get in the ad game at all costs.
Well lets see. You proposed a strategy for a new CEO and retrenchment. SOP for a company in financial difficulty. You bring a hachet man to break the company up, close loss making divisions and sack half the workforce to reduce costs. Its just astonishing to me that Wall Street does not concur with your vision of what MS needs but then they are ususally loathe to break up successful organisations with proven leadership. Perhaps you know something about Microsoft's accounts that no one else does.
IBM did it (and in some ways are still doing it), Novell had to do it, Apple had to do it...
Perhaps its because IBM, Novell and Apple had fundamental market change forced upon them while Microsoft are moving along quite nicely and the revenue keeps streaming in.
Microsoft are in the business of selling software and judging by the fact they have shipped 10s of millions of copies of Vista in an acknowledged slow adopter market, that business appears to be going quite well for them.
(so how about something cogent next time - or are sniveling attempts at sarcasm all that you're capable of?)
Cogent enough for you or do you just interpret all dissenting opinions as sniveling attempts at sarcasm ?
Thing is though, marketing could literally kill MSFT in the long run. Right now, IMHO, Ballmer need to be fired, and whoever takes his place need to sit down, figure out what all MSFT is spending cash on, and jettison all departments that aren't making money. Instead, we see MSFT believing its own delirious hype, and may well end up deluding itself clean into oblivion.
I'll bet the headhunters are just breaking your door down now with requests to head up multi billion dollar corporations after reading your devastatingly brilliant analayis of what MS need to be doing right now. Who would have guessed it was all so simple.
User incompetence is a poor argument for disallowing something. Should we ban cars because some people are crap drivers? presumably we should by your logic because the car allows them to crash and kill people. How about planes? They cant be foolproof when they can crash due to pilot error. Medical care. Should we disallow that because some doctors are useless or because the implements and machines they use are not perfect and people die in theatre?
Do you know another way to ensure that none of these people ever accidentally create documents with change tracking turned on? I didn't think so
Who cares if documents are created with change tracking on, most users actually want this and FYI word easily extended to prevent this and I would guess the same is true for OpenOffice. The issue here is distributing the document with the changes still embedded. Its easy to remove this information and tools are provided for this very purpose. I would be surprised if there was not a release process in place for this precise scenario which clearly was not followed. The fact that someone failed to do their job properly is the issue here, not the tooling.
Government use of MS Word should be disallowed because some numpty pencil pusher doesn't know how some of its features work? What a compelling argument that is.
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would this not indicate a high degree of apathy which tends to bear out the main point?
Its not just sand, its a beach ergo there must be water.
Because he is trying to build up a personality cult. It would appear Mr Putin has deigns on power greater than the Russian Presidency.
Whats a few surveillance cameras when poor Putin has a camera crew following him everywhere!!
but then I became a pr0n star....
Apparently its ok for Google to chuck cash at Mozilla to default to them, but they dont want the terms of the deal disclosed? Dodgy. Imagine the screaming hissy fits about conspiracy if Microsoft brokered a similar deal with Opera to default to whatever MS call their seach engine these days (yes I know Google got there first as well).
Some of the usual culprits I see are
(1996-2007) is definitely the year of Linux on the desktop. (Apparently if you recite this one enough times it will become true)
XXXX product from MS is doomed to failure for no particularly logical reason despite the fact we really know nothing about it but we love unfounded speculation.
MS is on the verge of collapse because little bobbie just started a project in sourceforge and although it has not released anything yet it will be an XP/Exchange/Outlook/SQLServer etc etc etc killer when they do and so the MS Evil Empire will crumble.
These people don't need their software designed completely differently, they just need it designed better.
Well the tech.blorge link is certainly one of the lamest attempts I have seen to have a dig at MS. I mean seriously with all the ammunition they provide the best this loser can come up with is 'conceptual similarities' between a fucking dayglo pink duck and a penguin.
What a site. Check out the second image down.I think its pretty clear from that what women are really looking for and its obviously not polite dance invites.
At first glance it's legal, they have been very careful to say user generated content, so expect to see lots of poor quality video of knobs behaving like only knobs can. Unfortunately all too many people confuse user uploaded third party content with user generated so they can actually have some decent content on the site(thats their no censorship clause kicking in). Thats when the legality starts to crumble.
all corporate appointments now or was this just a bit of character assassination too tempting to pass up?
All over the galaxy according to the Legends of Dune
or here http://microsoft.com/clearcase/repositories/IIS6/s table/src.
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Who cares if documents are created with change tracking on, most users actually want this and FYI word easily extended to prevent this and I would guess the same is true for OpenOffice. The issue here is distributing the document with the changes still embedded. Its easy to remove this information and tools are provided for this very purpose. I would be surprised if there was not a release process in place for this precise scenario which clearly was not followed. The fact that someone failed to do their job properly is the issue here, not the tooling.
Government use of MS Word should be disallowed because some numpty pencil pusher doesn't know how some of its features work? What a compelling argument that is.