How did I miss the office bug. That one burnt them so bad. In fact for me it discouraged me from upgrading office (I was a student back then so I didn't have to send much money to ms) because I knew if I stayed with the older version I would be able to open all my own files perfectly while if I upgraded I was taking a risk especially with my financial stuff.
Stupid ms plugin that automatically added itself to Firefox and wouldn't install. oops said ms. Mozilla had to release a hotfix to disable the plugin for all users.
hotmail not working properly for Opera users. A bug made hotmail keep sending an incomplete file to Opera browsers. the developers of operas first alerted ms and then sent them a physical letter. Both were ignored.
ms crying for interoperability in the early msn days and then when msn got king marketshare, third party chat programs would be mysteriously locked out when they tried to access msn chat servers.
Everytime I installed windows 95/98 and having to get rid of that stupid icon from the desktop and then from the ie bookmarks which were included even up to win 7. FInally that stupid icon is going to die away.
Being such a influential and powerful person, it is unfortunate that as president Jefferson didn't go on to dismantle the patent system since he saw for himself that 'useful improvements should be shared without restraint".
It would have saved us all from the broken system we have today where big corps sue each other until one leaves or theres a cross licensing agreement in place to block new players from entering the market.
Playstation Network already has something similar to this. You buya game new and it comes with downloadable content (DLC). If you sell the disc the buyer can play the game but he doesnt get the DLC because it is tied to your account.
One way around this and the RandomApp Pro problem and selling steam games is to make a throwaway steam/psn/email account and give that away with whatever it is you're selling.
1. buy laptop with a forced copy of windows 2. extract windows key 3. rplace windows with Linux 4. sell windows on ebay 5. ???? 6. profit!
Interestingly, if you could get more than $3 from selling windows which you most probably could, it would beat begging the oem to refund you the windows price.
Secondly it can bring back the right to photocopy up to 5% of a book/article for educational purposes. It usedto shit me off to no end hearing lecturers say they found some good content but couldn't give it to us because it exceeded the copying allowance.
Change the rule back to "plus 50" on when a work enters the public domain.
I know the plus 70 rule was just to follow the EU and the US but copyright was originally intended to provide authors with $$$ to create content, but the copyright does not expire until decades after the creator has died. By that time it might be useless for derivative works especially in software where technology changes at a alarming rate.
Bad news for autodesk who are vehemently opposed to used copies of autocad being sold on places like fleabay. Between versions of autocad which autodesk releases new versions annually there isn't a massive difference in features but if you want it it will cost you one price only - full rrp or close thereof. That is because as soon as the new version comes out the old stock is recalled so the shops cannot discount the older version and second hand sellers are quickly shut down.
Autodesk will also only upgrade from versions that are not that old, so people cannot 'catch up' if they left it a while .
the ACCC also warned apple before they shipped that the way they were promoting the ipad could leadthem to trouble but apple chose to go ahead anyway because it was cheaper for them this way.
It ran wince but it is not a part of the console. The Dreamcast doesn't have an internal operating system. That came depending on what came on the game discs it booted from and only a tiny fraction of games employed wince. Interesting of note out of all Dreamcast's library of games (which is small already) there is not one top title which uses wince.
If they were truely patent trolls then they wouldn't do their own r&d, nor would they ask for a measly $220 million in total from a number of organisation. Considering how much these organisations make from using WLAN $220 million is a drop in the ocean.
If Apple blocks android, more people would likely flock to ios. If microsoft did the same to android they would only be giving apple more customers. windows mobile is stuck in a chicken and a egg situation where it has a low uptake due to few apps and few apps because few use their phones. If windows mobile had more market share we would probably start seeing microsoft doing what apple is doing now.
The patent row between motorola and microsoft began even before google considered buying motorola. And the motorola buyout by google was more in response to microsoft suing android phone makers so google went after motorola's phone patents before anyone else (microsoft) could grab it to add to their warchest.
Talking purely patents, cross licensing sucks too because it locks out new players from the playing field. What we need is the abolishment of all patents or the reduction to their lifetime to a very short period.
They don't do it openly. Ask microsoft which patents android infringes and THEY WILL NOT TELL YOU. Every android phone maker that has paid the blackmail money^h^h^h settled has also had to sign a non disclosure statement. This is either because microsoft doesnt want the other phonemakers it hasnt gone after yet to create a workaround^h^h^h not infringe or because microsoft knows it's standing is very weak.
Not only do they extract out of android phone makers many times more than make from their own windows phones but now they want to extract cash out of google as well.
If miscrosoft spent less time sabotaging, suing and backstabbing their partners and more time innovating and focussing on their own products, maybe their company would experience more growth. Only then would it be able to turn its reputation around like IBM has.
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I dont know why but they seriously made me laugh out loud. lol. good job.
How did I miss the office bug. That one burnt them so bad. In fact for me it discouraged me from upgrading office (I was a student back then so I didn't have to send much money to ms) because I knew if I stayed with the older version I would be able to open all my own files perfectly while if I upgraded I was taking a risk especially with my financial stuff.
Add to that:
Stupid ms plugin that automatically added itself to Firefox and wouldn't install. oops said ms. Mozilla had to release a hotfix to disable the plugin for all users.
hotmail not working properly for Opera users. A bug made hotmail keep sending an incomplete file to Opera browsers. the developers of operas first alerted ms and then sent them a physical letter. Both were ignored.
ms crying for interoperability in the early msn days and then when msn got king marketshare, third party chat programs would be mysteriously locked out when they tried to access msn chat servers.
ms is at it again with windows rt
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/is-microsoft-blocking-chrome-and-firefox-from-native-windows-rt-a-big-deal/2375
Everytime I installed windows 95/98 and having to get rid of that stupid icon from the desktop and then from the ie bookmarks which were included even up to win 7. FInally that stupid icon is going to die away.
Why yes. Funny you should ask that. .It was one of his black projects for the US government to use on TOR.
No. So back off Apple!
Being such a influential and powerful person, it is unfortunate that as president Jefferson didn't go on to dismantle the patent system since he saw for himself that 'useful improvements should be shared without restraint".
It would have saved us all from the broken system we have today where big corps sue each other until one leaves or theres a cross licensing agreement in place to block new players from entering the market.
Playstation Network already has something similar to this. You buya game new and it comes with downloadable content (DLC). If you sell the disc the buyer can play the game but he doesnt get the DLC because it is tied to your account.
One way around this and the RandomApp Pro problem and selling steam games is to make a throwaway steam/psn/email account and give that away with whatever it is you're selling.
The same way they stop (or dont stop) people installing onto multiple computers.
Developers have to contend with this issue already when people format their computers and need a new activation key.
1. buy laptop with a forced copy of windows
2. extract windows key
3. rplace windows with Linux
4. sell windows on ebay
5. ????
6. profit!
Interestingly, if you could get more than $3 from selling windows which you most probably could, it would beat begging the oem to refund you the windows price.
Australia should take note of what the EU courts have just handed down and irrevocably allow the sale of second hand software. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/03/1245200/used-software-can-be-sold-says-eu-court-of-justice
Secondly it can bring back the right to photocopy up to 5% of a book/article for educational purposes. It usedto shit me off to no end hearing lecturers say they found some good content but couldn't give it to us because it exceeded the copying allowance.
Change the rule back to "plus 50" on when a work enters the public domain.
I know the plus 70 rule was just to follow the EU and the US but copyright was originally intended to provide authors with $$$ to create content, but the copyright does not expire until decades after the creator has died. By that time it might be useless for derivative works especially in software where technology changes at a alarming rate.
Bad news for autodesk who are vehemently opposed to used copies of autocad being sold on places like fleabay. Between versions of autocad which autodesk releases new versions annually there isn't a massive difference in features but if you want it it will cost you one price only - full rrp or close thereof. That is because as soon as the new version comes out the old stock is recalled so the shops cannot discount the older version and second hand sellers are quickly shut down.
Autodesk will also only upgrade from versions that are not that old, so people cannot 'catch up' if they left it a while .
I would have modded this funny but obviously other /.ers are not as dirty minded as I am . :p
And to do the work for the WTO to push copyright and IP laws into other countries before the pharmaceutical and entertainment industry close in.
the ACCC also warned apple before they shipped that the way they were promoting the ipad could leadthem to trouble but apple chose to go ahead anyway because it was cheaper for them this way.
And don't forget the slashdot article on how apple sidesteps paying taxes the world over.
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/04/28/2330225/how-apple-sidesteps-billions-in-global-taxes?sdsrc=popbyskidbtmprev
I wonder how much tax apple has evaded in Australia alone. Maybe this fine isn't big enough but it will crawl some of those dollars back.
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It ran wince but it is not a part of the console. The Dreamcast doesn't have an internal operating system. That came depending on what came on the game discs it booted from and only a tiny fraction of games employed wince. Interesting of note out of all Dreamcast's library of games (which is small already) there is not one top title which uses wince.
List of wince games here:
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/threads/43804-WinCE-games-List
You could easily build up a collection of A-B rated titles without having any that use wince.
I doubt Nvidia would go with microsoft for the 720 or whatever it'll be called. Nvidia got burned very badly on the orignal xbox.
The only thing made by microsoft that doesn't suck is a vacuum cleaner.
If they were truely patent trolls then they wouldn't do their own r&d, nor would they ask for a measly $220 million in total from a number of organisation. Considering how much these organisations make from using WLAN $220 million is a drop in the ocean.
If Apple blocks android, more people would likely flock to ios. If microsoft did the same to android they would only be giving apple more customers. windows mobile is stuck in a chicken and a egg situation where it has a low uptake due to few apps and few apps because few use their phones. If windows mobile had more market share we would probably start seeing microsoft doing what apple is doing now.
You mean like them manipulating their search results to catch microsoft red handed stealing their hard work? https://www.google.com/search?q=bing+copying+google?
The patent row between motorola and microsoft began even before google considered buying motorola. And the motorola buyout by google was more in response to microsoft suing android phone makers so google went after motorola's phone patents before anyone else (microsoft) could grab it to add to their warchest.
Talking purely patents, cross licensing sucks too because it locks out new players from the playing field. What we need is the abolishment of all patents or the reduction to their lifetime to a very short period.
They don't do it openly. Ask microsoft which patents android infringes and THEY WILL NOT TELL YOU. Every android phone maker that has paid the blackmail money^h^h^h settled has also had to sign a non disclosure statement. This is either because microsoft doesnt want the other phonemakers it hasnt gone after yet to create a workaround^h^h^h not infringe or because microsoft knows it's standing is very weak.
Not only do they extract out of android phone makers many times more than make from their own windows phones but now they want to extract cash out of google as well.
If miscrosoft spent less time sabotaging, suing and backstabbing their partners and more time innovating and focussing on their own products, maybe their company would experience more growth. Only then would it be able to turn its reputation around like IBM has.