If Microsoft were adding features to Windows, like when they added an internet browser and media player, would you be happier?
Yep, provided they were:
Easily replaceable by OEMs
Easily replaceable by my own choices
Coded to follow open standards
Costed separately from the core OS (So I could save $10 by deselecting IE or WMP, for example.)
Those constraints would allow fair competition. If Microsoft were then able to produce better browsers and media players than the competition, they'd deserve my money.
No, this is just another example of how a monopoly impedes progress.
The fact that industry is having to work around Microsoft's stranglehold instead of simply shifting to another vendor is a sad indictment of governments' handling of an abusive monopolist.
Microsoft should have been split at the original DoJ antitrust case. It still should.
See Ed Bott's Windows adoption rates: a history lesson [zdnet.com]
You're seriously quoting Bott? He'll write whatever his owners in Redmond tell him to.
In this case, he's distorting the truth to make Vista adoption rates look better. Read what he writes carefully. None of it is actually untrue, at least as far as I know, but none actually supports the premise of his conclusion either.
By the way, it should go without saying that when you write applications for Android, you are still tied to one company... Google.
The Android web site:
The Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies, is developing Android: the first complete, open, and free mobile platform.
Another anecdote. A laptop running Vista at a project office I've been doing some work in has started refusing to print images. If a Word document is printed, the pictures in it show up as totally black squares, even when it's printed to PDF.
They've reinstalled printer drivers, reinstalled Office, with no luck. When it gets back to the main office it'll have to be reimaged, until then, we have to work around it.
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Against a free market, eh? You're not a communist, are you?
I don't understand what the point is here.
Do you mean you can replace easily replace Safari and iTunes in OSX? If so, why is that anti-competitive?
Google Earth.
Only as badge-engineering. Acer owns the brand now.
Yep, provided they were:
Those constraints would allow fair competition. If Microsoft were then able to produce better browsers and media players than the competition, they'd deserve my money.
No, this is just another example of how a monopoly impedes progress.
The fact that industry is having to work around Microsoft's stranglehold instead of simply shifting to another vendor is a sad indictment of governments' handling of an abusive monopolist.
Microsoft should have been split at the original DoJ antitrust case. It still should.
We'd better hope like hell Apple's not trying for a subterranean patent there.
Infineon.
But the problem may lie with the way Apple's software uses the radio.
Debunking Wine Myths
for those applications that do work and from a purely subjective point of view, performance is good. There is no obvious performance loss
http://www.winehq.org/site/myths#slow
ELP's Laser Turntable gets part way there.
What did the last one taste like?
You're seriously quoting Bott? He'll write whatever his owners in Redmond tell him to.
In this case, he's distorting the truth to make Vista adoption rates look better. Read what he writes carefully. None of it is actually untrue, at least as far as I know, but none actually supports the premise of his conclusion either.
It's all smoke and mirrors, folks.
What, they were all queens before?
That explains Top Gun, I suppose.
Really? Perhaps if you're using Excel on a Pentium II for your calcs...
XP hit 20% of the market in less than a year, and was at 40% by the 24 month mark.
Vista was released in November 06, and in august '08 is still below 20%. It might make that 20% share by November, 24 months after it was released.
That's a dismal performance by any standards, but for a monopoly OS that was seven years in development, it's an astonishing failure.
By the way, it should go without saying that when you write applications for Android, you are still tied to one company... Google.
The Android web site:
The Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies, is developing Android: the first complete, open, and free mobile platform.
I sense an inconsistency here. Care to explain?
That explains the wired network.
Neither of those is particularly exotic, and a quick web search suggests plenty of people experience BSODs with that combination.
Which ones are they?
Where do I find these mythical "stable drivers" that Windows evangelists claim are all that's needed to keep their machines as reliable as Linux?
You're spinning Microsoft's failure to develop a new OS, despite more than half a decade of effort, as a positive?
You must work for Crispin Porter + Bogusky. Congrats on that big new contract.
They've reinstalled printer drivers, reinstalled Office, with no luck. When it gets back to the main office it'll have to be reimaged, until then, we have to work around it.
Crispin Porter + Bogusky aren't just an ad agency, they're "Marketing 2.0" specialists, so they use a lot of viral techniques.
Expect to see a lot more of those "Vista works perfectly for me" product endorsements that litter any discussion of Microsoft OSs.
Can your 1000-node grid cluster run Vista Ultimate smoothly? Probably not...
Windows vulnerabilities are extraordinary?
I'll have some of what you're drinking, please.
It's easy to criticise. How about you try fixing it instead?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897445.aspx