Of course, with Porn as a sales argument. Can't find my porn with Google, need to get Bing, the porn queen.
What surprises me is that "Porn" is an explicit sales argument for Microsoft. A pawn is a pawn, said Bobby Fisher. What is next? Buy your SS underwear at our nazi.shopping.bing.com? A special Bing for china without Tiananmen massacre plus a special BIng for the Chinese abroad WITH Tiananmen? Bing for you, bing for me?
MyBing, where you can censor your own web. YourBing, where you can watch what others bing.
Coming next: Windows Vista 7 launched at gay pride parade "My PCs bings the Mac"
XP is nice and mature software and Windows 7 just an Vista update. I see no reason for a business to migrate now. As long as millions still use XP they ought to continue to support it ("support" beeing fixing the remaining bugs and still unfixed security holes after 8 years).
Windows 7 is still not mature software. It needs to get tested first. Never change a running system. Most businesses can wait till Windows 8.
Not really. And of course there is no reason to litigate for licensing patents. The FSF should rather concentrate on getting rid off patents alltogether. Bilski will be heard at the Supreme Court.
If you are not the copyright holder you cannot enforce the rights of others.
Miguel de Icaza is not a credible person to attack. Novell works as the work bench of Microsoft. He is the one who infected Gnome with Mono dependencies and told he does not care about patents in open xml, mono and so forth.
Of course they won't leave Germany, it is just a slow political transformation process. The rules the minister are proposed for Europe at large. The German minister just tests the national ground to stir some debate. In Germany you have public debate, even if it is bullshit.
First of all the case is about populism and elections. Second the interior minister likes to stake the demands a bit higher to negotiate something in between. Third that debate would be a fantastic recruitment tool for a gamer's rights campaign, So in the end Germans will get a a happy interior minister hated by everyone and and we would have a kind of CyberNRA e.V. Germany won't do it alone but on a European level. SchÃuble just tests the national debate.
Because antitrust is about enforcement of competition rules as to create a free competitive market. WTO is concerned about barriers to free trade and the promotion of better competition. They basically have he same objective in trade.
It is false that Microsoft is taxed or that money was a motivation for these policies. At least on the EU side the large fines occured because Microsoft refused to comply with the moderate sanctions and played stupid. It was the first company ever which did not comply with a ruling.
And don't forget that the US let them off the hook, just because Bush was reelected.
In fact competition authorities don't get money or staff for the imposition of fines but rather strong lobbying and a lot of work. They would prefer to arrest offenders but criminal sanctions are not at their disposal. Deterrent fines is all they can issue and the way Microsoft communicates demonstrates that they do not show any respect.
Microsoft and its standards shysters were quite succesful with Open XML and prevented the National Operating System of Russia. Now the next opportunity to cash in for Russian officials.
I can't see why this nation is the enemy of the US? There is no war and no military threat, the Soviet Union vanished into thing air, and everything else is an internal matter of the nation. There are sanction someione forgot to lift because the conditions have not changed. Here it will only drive the nation towards open source. A 'national messenger' is the equivalent to nuclear defense, if your government does not invest in it, your nation is not digitally independent.
This is not market regulation. It is enforcement of the law following a complaint of Opera. As simple as that. Microsoft fooled the Commission once with a soft remedy in the media player case, so the Commission won't let that happen a second time and be more specific.
Who cares? We have the app sphere and we have the desktop environment. Of course one program, one toolkit. But honestly, no one cares beyond. that is an invention of the GTK toolkit nazis. Use Oxygen Icons on Gnome and it looks as convenient as KDE.
there is something else. Desktop environments have to concentrate on the Unix philosophie, do one thing and do it right and make sure components can talk to each other. Currently we find the approach e.g. with LXDE. And with LXDE I can then launch all the applications I want and I don't care what toolkit is used. Or does the Windows user care that VLC uses QT etc? The Desktop enviroment is just for the desktop, no one needs integration clutter.
Microsoft cannot beat a crowd which applies organised and orchestrated techniques, and which is not visible, has no gravitation.
The costs of counter-action are driven up. Microsoft wins, like they won in MA with a lobbyist army and a lot of cash, and hope they dissuade the next state to try the same. The public scandal is a recruitment tool and further spreads the policy technology. They screw up MA but some guys in Fungistan will ensure that the minister overtakes the wording for the national ICT laws.
The basic technique is enexpected, decentral attacks on the cash cows.
I guess that is an important point. Not the OS naked is the problem but the OS + x, and I mean the drivers, the toolbars, the malware and the extra syncro tools for your handheld, your scanner, your camera, your backup disc and of course the Virus scanner, all of them essential applicaitions.
Windows Vista 7 is just a rebranded Vista SP2. Microsoft didn't sell XP SP2 but Vista 7 will be more expensive than Vista, it will also carry the genuine XP user experience by a competaibility mode.
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They already have openstandards.microsoft.com
which is different from all other open standards sites.
democracy.bing.kp for the Democratic People of North Korea.
Of course, with Porn as a sales argument. Can't find my porn with Google, need to get Bing, the porn queen.
What surprises me is that "Porn" is an explicit sales argument for Microsoft. A pawn is a pawn, said Bobby Fisher. What is next? Buy your SS underwear at our nazi.shopping.bing.com? A special Bing for china without Tiananmen massacre plus a special BIng for the Chinese abroad WITH Tiananmen? Bing for you, bing for me?
MyBing, where you can censor your own web. YourBing, where you can watch what others bing.
Coming next: Windows Vista 7 launched at gay pride parade "My PCs bings the Mac"
XP is nice and mature software and Windows 7 just an Vista update. I see no reason for a business to migrate now. As long as millions still use XP they ought to continue to support it ("support" beeing fixing the remaining bugs and still unfixed security holes after 8 years).
Windows 7 is still not mature software. It needs to get tested first. Never change a running system. Most businesses can wait till Windows 8.
The hacker foundation hijacked the term as if they invented all these places, American arogance.
You also can still use Altavista. I am sure it integrates better with your Vista PC.
Microsoft is the next AOL.
Bing is not better yet.
> A far cry from the horrendous "portal"idea that Yahoo, MSN, comcast.net, AOL, and others are still attached too.
I would suggest that the "porn search" public argument works.
Not really. And of course there is no reason to litigate for licensing patents. The FSF should rather concentrate on getting rid off patents alltogether. Bilski will be heard at the Supreme Court.
If you are not the copyright holder you cannot enforce the rights of others.
Miguel de Icaza is not a credible person to attack. Novell works as the work bench of Microsoft. He is the one who infected Gnome with Mono dependencies and told he does not care about patents in open xml, mono and so forth.
Of course they won't leave Germany, it is just a slow political transformation process. The rules the minister are proposed for Europe at large. The German minister just tests the national ground to stir some debate. In Germany you have public debate, even if it is bullshit.
First of all the case is about populism and elections. Second the interior minister likes to stake the demands a bit higher to negotiate something in between. Third that debate would be a fantastic recruitment tool for a gamer's rights campaign, So in the end Germans will get a a happy interior minister hated by everyone and and we would have a kind of CyberNRA e.V. Germany won't do it alone but on a European level. SchÃuble just tests the national debate.
A national security risk as it makes your economy at large vulnerable to an attack.
"Any modern OS is a huge chunk of software and WILL have holes in it to exploit."
Sure.
Because antitrust is about enforcement of competition rules as to create a free competitive market. WTO is concerned about barriers to free trade and the promotion of better competition. They basically have he same objective in trade.
It is false that Microsoft is taxed or that money was a motivation for these policies. At least on the EU side the large fines occured because Microsoft refused to comply with the moderate sanctions and played stupid. It was the first company ever which did not comply with a ruling.
And don't forget that the US let them off the hook, just because Bush was reelected.
In fact competition authorities don't get money or staff for the imposition of fines but rather strong lobbying and a lot of work. They would prefer to arrest offenders but criminal sanctions are not at their disposal. Deterrent fines is all they can issue and the way Microsoft communicates demonstrates that they do not show any respect.
When you buy a product today it should be supported 7yrs onwards
Microsoft and its standards shysters were quite succesful with Open XML and prevented the National Operating System of Russia. Now the next opportunity to cash in for Russian officials.
I can't see why this nation is the enemy of the US? There is no war and no military threat, the Soviet Union vanished into thing air, and everything else is an internal matter of the nation. There are sanction someione forgot to lift because the conditions have not changed. Here it will only drive the nation towards open source. A 'national messenger' is the equivalent to nuclear defense, if your government does not invest in it, your nation is not digitally independent.
This is not market regulation. It is enforcement of the law following a complaint of Opera. As simple as that. Microsoft fooled the Commission once with a soft remedy in the media player case, so the Commission won't let that happen a second time and be more specific.
Accept it, because the kind of standardized APIs that are needed are not going to happen with the attitudes that this community has.
1986
BYTE: Given that manufacturers haven't wanted to fund the project, who do you think will use the GNU system when it is done?
Stallman: I have no idea, but it is not an important question.
Who cares? We have the app sphere and we have the desktop environment. Of course one program, one toolkit. But honestly, no one cares beyond. that is an invention of the GTK toolkit nazis. Use Oxygen Icons on Gnome and it looks as convenient as KDE.
there is something else. Desktop environments have to concentrate on the Unix philosophie, do one thing and do it right and make sure components can talk to each other. Currently we find the approach e.g. with LXDE. And with LXDE I can then launch all the applications I want and I don't care what toolkit is used. Or does the Windows user care that VLC uses QT etc? The Desktop enviroment is just for the desktop, no one needs integration clutter.
I am not interested in forks and busy with other projects. Ideally there should never be forks.
Interesting. How does this re-use work?
Microsoft cannot beat a crowd which applies organised and orchestrated techniques, and which is not visible, has no gravitation.
The costs of counter-action are driven up. Microsoft wins, like they won in MA with a lobbyist army and a lot of cash, and hope they dissuade the next state to try the same. The public scandal is a recruitment tool and further spreads the policy technology. They screw up MA but some guys in Fungistan will ensure that the minister overtakes the wording for the national ICT laws.
The basic technique is enexpected, decentral attacks on the cash cows.
I guess that is an important point. Not the OS naked is the problem but the OS + x, and I mean the drivers, the toolbars, the malware and the extra syncro tools for your handheld, your scanner, your camera, your backup disc and of course the Virus scanner, all of them essential applicaitions.
Windows Vista 7 is just a rebranded Vista SP2. Microsoft didn't sell XP SP2 but Vista 7 will be more expensive than Vista, it will also carry the genuine XP user experience by a competaibility mode.
Just take a Virtual box and install XP. Virtualisation is enough. I guess that is the way Microsoft wil implement its own Vista XP mode.
Buy a Vista Home Aero 7 edition.