* The new sound system, with per-application volume control * The kernel transaction manager * Drivers running in user mode * The new windows update
Ok, let's say each of those features requires a gigabyte of compiled code to implement. What do you reckon the other eleven giggabytes are being used for?
And I am not that keen on living in a world of 'total enforcement'.Principles of Justice
Article 1: Selective Prosecution.
Selective Prosecution is Persecution! The most damnable of all violations of Justice! It destroys both parties, the ones selected to be punished, to the uttermost farthing, and are never forgiven and those who are immune from penalties, because of some assumed position of nobility or immunity.
Avoiding detection is not the same as avoiding prosecution.
What right do Microsoft have to force me to pay for their product?
It's called the rule of law, and at the moment it's being enforced selectively. I would be arrested by jackbooted thugs if I took Microsoft products without paying, and would be forced to return the products.
Microsoft is illegally using its monopoly position to extort billions from me and other customers, and nobody's stopping the theft, nobody's making them return their ill-gotten gains.
Actually, that article supports my point that MS appears to be playing it straight this time.
Very few people agree. Consensus amongst most who've reviewed the actual content of the statement is that it's business as usual.
Microsoft is once again promising interoperability and adherence to standards, but its own version of each. Interoperability that is safe only for noncommercial software excludes Microsoft's number one competitor, Linux. It is noncommercial and commercial, depending on who is using it. So, right there it tells you that this is a promise to do nothing that matters. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080221184924826
The European Union's top antitrust regulator's scepticism about Microsoft's latest pledge to compete fairly comes after "at least four similar statements by Microsoft on the importance of interoperability".
ECIS, the European Committee for Interoperable Systems, voiced similar scepticism.
"The proof of this pudding will be in the eating. The world needs a permanent change in Microsoft's behaviour, not just another announcement. We have heard high-profile commitments from Microsoft a half-dozen times over the past two years, but have yet to see any lasting change in Microsoft's behaviour in the marketplace,"
It's lovely that you're so trusting, but do you think it's wise?
Microsoft implementation of Java wasn't buggy: far from it, it was actually superior to the Sun implementation. It was faster and integrated better with Windows.
Ah, marketing. Where would we be without it?
Microsoft developed J/Direct specifically to make Java non-portable to other OSs. The MS JVM wasn't better than Suns, it was just tied heavily into the OS, and code developed for it broke if run on any other VM.
J++ was another lockin tool to ensure any "Java" developed in Microsoft's IDE would only run on Microsoft OSs. JBuilder was always a better package anyway.
Windows Vista Sensei comes from a long family line of warriors, the " Windows" family.
He is highly thought of as one of the most powerful warriors alive. Although he is still young, Windows Vista Sensei is said to possess different strengths and confidence not known to anyone.
Seriously though, WTF is up with MS marketing? First there was that braindead comic, now there's these monumentally lame Microsoft action figures...
Rule one is don't bite the hand that feeds you. This guy's rabid.
This is fundamentally wrong.
Dr. Kochi has been far more successful and saved more lives than any other malaria fighter. He is succeeding becuase he is replacing the stagnant, broken sytem of consultants and drug companies with pragmatic effective solutions. Because he is challenging orthodoxy, including those the Gates Foundation supports, he is meeting resistance, such as the usual FUD disseminated by large companies.
This article is much more informative about Kochi's activities and reasons.
By all means attack MS in this way, but play nice amongst the good guys.
Mozilla have historically played nice with everybody, includingMicrosoft.
Opera Software found and patched what it's calling a "highly severe" bug in its flagship browser, using a security tool released by its competitor, Mozilla.
Mozilla worked with Microsoft, Apple, and Opera before making the JavaScript fuzzer widely available in order to reduce the possibility that the tool might be used to expose vulnerabilities in those browsers. Strangely enough, the actual advisory by Mozilla which was linked to by Opera's Claudio Santambrogio in his complaint doesn't mention Opera at all. Given Mozilla's history of cooperation with other browser teams, you'd have to guess any failure in early notification was through oversight rather than intention.
yes, because sorting out dependencies and occasionally having to download source, make and install is such a joy.
You've never used it, have you?
Don't believe the FUD you read on Slashdot, it's not like that at all.
What happens is that a little round icon on your taskbar turns orange and says "Software Updates are Available". If you click it, it gives a list of software which can be updated. You can select or deselect them with an ordinary checkbox, then hit the update button and have it happen automatically.
You really should try Linux someday. It's not as scary as you think.
Why are Sun covenants GPL friendly and Microsoft's not?
Good question.
The key characteristics and innovative features of the Sun agreement in the OASIS context are: The declaration:
(1) constitutes a blanket promise connected with ODF that's not restricted to particular facets or features;
(2) is irrevocable;
(3) is global valid in all countries and all jurisdictions insofar as Sun is concerned;
(4) is not time-limited with respect to the past, present, or new features added to future versions of ODF [insofar as Sun is obligated under OASIS IPR rules];
(5) is reciprocal, allowing Sun to be able to take action to protect itself and the community, providing rock-solid safety for developers and end-users;
(6) has no bureaucracy or paperwork;
(7) is simple and clear;
(8) makes no reference to essential claims which sometimes govern whether a waiver is applicable: the Sun statement applies regardless. As opposed to:
The Microsoft Open Specification Promise is ambiguous
Moreover, in the OSP we find additional language limiting rights:
Microsoft Necessary Claims" are those claims of Microsoft-owned or Microsoft-controlled patents that are necessary to implement only the required portions of the Covered Specification that are described in detail and not merely referenced in such Specification.
If there was a single fact or reference in that reply, it would drag itself out of the same intellectual swamp that gave birth to intelligent design.
Ad hominem much?
If you have an actual counter argument, I'd suggest you present it. The GPP doesn't need to specifically reference what anyone interested in computers will have observed for themselves over the past few decades.
...and the rich man also died and was buried. "In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and *saw Abraham far away * and Lazarus in his bosom. "And he cried out and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.' "But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony. " 'And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.'
it's so bloated there has to be an Air Traffic Control System
OOo 2.3.1 : 107MB
MS Office 2007 : 388 MB
Judging by those numbers, it looks like MS has given Excel its flight sim back, given Word an air traffic control app, and judging by the frequency of its crashes, given Powerpoint a demolition derby...
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Apparently they're doing their training out near Guam...
Ok, let's say each of those features requires a gigabyte of compiled code to implement. What do you reckon the other eleven giggabytes are being used for?
Running Vista Ultimate...
http://www.microsoft.com/OneCare/
no, wait....
Article 1: Selective Prosecution.
Avoiding detection is not the same as avoiding prosecution.Selective Prosecution is Persecution! The most damnable of all violations of Justice! It destroys both parties, the ones selected to be punished, to the uttermost farthing, and are never forgiven and those who are immune from penalties, because of some assumed position of nobility or immunity.
What right do Microsoft have to force me to pay for their product?
It's called the rule of law, and at the moment it's being enforced selectively. I would be arrested by jackbooted thugs if I took Microsoft products without paying, and would be forced to return the products.
Microsoft is illegally using its monopoly position to extort billions from me and other customers, and nobody's stopping the theft, nobody's making them return their ill-gotten gains.
Fixed that for you.
Sounds good to me. Where do I sign up?
Sign up? You're already working for 'em.
Very few people agree. Consensus amongst most who've reviewed the actual content of the statement is that it's business as usual.
Microsoft is once again promising interoperability and adherence to standards, but its own version of each. Interoperability that is safe only for noncommercial software excludes Microsoft's number one competitor, Linux. It is noncommercial and commercial, depending on who is using it. So, right there it tells you that this is a promise to do nothing that matters. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080221184924826What about the evangelism teams? Where do they fit into Microsoft's hierarchy?
The EU doesn't agree with you.
The European Union's top antitrust regulator's scepticism about Microsoft's latest pledge to compete fairly comes after "at least four similar statements by Microsoft on the importance of interoperability".ECIS, the European Committee for Interoperable Systems, voiced similar scepticism.
"The proof of this pudding will be in the eating. The world needs a permanent change in Microsoft's behaviour, not just another announcement. We have heard high-profile commitments from Microsoft a half-dozen times over the past two years, but have yet to see any lasting change in Microsoft's behaviour in the marketplace,"
It's lovely that you're so trusting, but do you think it's wise?Ah, marketing. Where would we be without it?
Microsoft developed J/Direct specifically to make Java non-portable to other OSs. The MS JVM wasn't better than Suns, it was just tied heavily into the OS, and code developed for it broke if run on any other VM.
J++ was another lockin tool to ensure any "Java" developed in Microsoft's IDE would only run on Microsoft OSs. JBuilder was always a better package anyway.
Do not point the laser at your one remaining ear.
Somebody in there is having a good try.
Windows Vista Sensei comes from a long family line of warriors, the " Windows" family.He is highly thought of as one of the most powerful warriors alive. Although he is still young, Windows Vista Sensei is said to possess different strengths and confidence not known to anyone.
Seriously though, WTF is up with MS marketing? First there was that braindead comic, now there's these monumentally lame Microsoft action figures...He is, and has been for years.
In 2005, the foundation held nearly $1.5 billion worth of stock in drug companies whose practices have been widely criticized as restricting the flow of key medicines to poor people in developing nations. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story?coll=la-home-headlinesThis is fundamentally wrong.
Dr. Kochi has been far more successful and saved more lives than any other malaria fighter. He is succeeding becuase he is replacing the stagnant, broken sytem of consultants and drug companies with pragmatic effective solutions. Because he is challenging orthodoxy, including those the Gates Foundation supports, he is meeting resistance, such as the usual FUD disseminated by large companies.
This article is much more informative about Kochi's activities and reasons.
Mozilla have historically played nice with everybody, including Microsoft.
Opera Software found and patched what it's calling a "highly severe" bug in its flagship browser, using a security tool released by its competitor, Mozilla. Mozilla worked with Microsoft, Apple, and Opera before making the JavaScript fuzzer widely available in order to reduce the possibility that the tool might be used to expose vulnerabilities in those browsers. Strangely enough, the actual advisory by Mozilla which was linked to by Opera's Claudio Santambrogio in his complaint doesn't mention Opera at all. Given Mozilla's history of cooperation with other browser teams, you'd have to guess any failure in early notification was through oversight rather than intention.You've never used it, have you?
Don't believe the FUD you read on Slashdot, it's not like that at all.
What happens is that a little round icon on your taskbar turns orange and says "Software Updates are Available". If you click it, it gives a list of software which can be updated. You can select or deselect them with an ordinary checkbox, then hit the update button and have it happen automatically.
You really should try Linux someday. It's not as scary as you think.
You should actually try using Linux.
You'll be amazed how trouble free updating ALL of your installed software is.
It'd give you a bit more credibility here as well.
Good question.
The key characteristics and innovative features of the Sun agreement in the OASIS context are: The declaration:(1) constitutes a blanket promise connected with ODF that's not restricted to particular facets or features;
(2) is irrevocable;
(3) is global valid in all countries and all jurisdictions insofar as Sun is concerned;
(4) is not time-limited with respect to the past, present, or new features added to future versions of ODF [insofar as Sun is obligated under OASIS IPR rules];
(5) is reciprocal, allowing Sun to be able to take action to protect itself and the community, providing rock-solid safety for developers and end-users;
(6) has no bureaucracy or paperwork;
(7) is simple and clear;
(8) makes no reference to essential claims which sometimes govern whether a waiver is applicable: the Sun statement applies regardless. As opposed to: The Microsoft Open Specification Promise is ambiguous
Moreover, in the OSP we find additional language limiting rights:
Microsoft Necessary Claims" are those claims of Microsoft-owned or Microsoft-controlled patents that are necessary to implement only the required portions of the Covered Specification that are described in detail and not merely referenced in such Specification.Ad hominem much?
If you have an actual counter argument, I'd suggest you present it. The GPP doesn't need to specifically reference what anyone interested in computers will have observed for themselves over the past few decades.
There's "lot's" of MS shills and trolls here too.
What's your point?
For very large values of shark.
OOo 2.3.1 : 107MB
MS Office 2007 : 388 MB
Judging by those numbers, it looks like MS has given Excel its flight sim back, given Word an air traffic control app, and judging by the frequency of its crashes, given Powerpoint a demolition derby...