Quark Xpress were one of the first Carbon applications demonstrated back in the introduction of Mac OS X on how easy and quick it would be to port existing applications to the new system.
Here are a couple of harmless words by me, please be constructive with your critisism. I am a padawan nerd after all...
Once again Microsoft do one of their trademark things; shady deals and corporate buyouts. There's no other reason why Microsoft bought this company other than it provided good services on another platform. This doesn't come as a suprise really. Seems to me that lately they're not really satisfied with owning 95%+ of the market.
Never believe in the official word Microsoft give. That's rule number one. Look at the reason why they bought Connectix. The official word was because of the technology they had with running several operating systems on the same computer, or something like that. Well, it becomes even more obvious when you look at the fact that Connectix was the only Windows emulation software on the Mac, backed up by the fact that Microsoft have been lacking on updates for their Mac software recently. In other words, they want to kill Apple.
Why? Seems to me that Microsoft is now doing whatever it can with in legal boundries to finish all the competitive forces. They're now piece by piece peeling the bana of Apple. Before you know it, Microsoft will kill Office for Mac and Apple will die of nothing is done about it.
Infact, didn't Microsoft make an agreement or licencing deal with SCO a couple of months ago right before they started suing companies for stealing their code? Have none of you ever thought of that connection?
In other words... Looks like Microsoft has pulled in to high gear in fear, by doing what they do best: kill the opponents by buying them away.
I'm all for intellectual property, I mean, if I have wasted MY time and MY money on something it's my god given right to claim it's mine! But it's gone too far in this day and age. Amazon has a patent on One-clicking. That's insanity! How can you patent something like that? I guess somebody should patent one-clicking opening folders, or maybe double-clicking links in the web browsers. Yes, I know it's not the actual click that's the patent but what it does. But still, it's pretty stupid. Maybe I should patent the wheel and see if I can get it through all the way. That'd be cool. Huhuhuhhuhuh. Yeah.
I am sorry to say that we're fighting a losing battle. No matter what we do, in a couple of years everything will be owned by only a handful of companies and everything you do on your computer must be approved by Microsoft or some other company. It's ashamed... Really.
It seems to me that Will Wright have a secret Fetisch for Robots. Every other meaning he speaks ends with "... with robots!".
And talk about being short of ideas... They're actually thinking of stuff like SimCity the Sitcom? How boring would that be on a scale from one to ten?
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Quark Xpress were one of the first Carbon applications demonstrated back in the introduction of Mac OS X on how easy and quick it would be to port existing applications to the new system.
They were really wrong appearantly.
Here are a couple of harmless words by me, please be constructive with your critisism. I am a padawan nerd after all...
Once again Microsoft do one of their trademark things; shady deals and corporate buyouts. There's no other reason why Microsoft bought this company other than it provided good services on another platform. This doesn't come as a suprise really. Seems to me that lately they're not really satisfied with owning 95%+ of the market.
Never believe in the official word Microsoft give. That's rule number one. Look at the reason why they bought Connectix. The official word was because of the technology they had with running several operating systems on the same computer, or something like that. Well, it becomes even more obvious when you look at the fact that Connectix was the only Windows emulation software on the Mac, backed up by the fact that Microsoft have been lacking on updates for their Mac software recently. In other words, they want to kill Apple.
Why? Seems to me that Microsoft is now doing whatever it can with in legal boundries to finish all the competitive forces. They're now piece by piece peeling the bana of Apple. Before you know it, Microsoft will kill Office for Mac and Apple will die of nothing is done about it.
Infact, didn't Microsoft make an agreement or licencing deal with SCO a couple of months ago right before they started suing companies for stealing their code? Have none of you ever thought of that connection?
In other words... Looks like Microsoft has pulled in to high gear in fear, by doing what they do best: kill the opponents by buying them away.
Are you Richard Simmons?
I'm all for intellectual property, I mean, if I have wasted MY time and MY money on something it's my god given right to claim it's mine! But it's gone too far in this day and age. Amazon has a patent on One-clicking. That's insanity! How can you patent something like that? I guess somebody should patent one-clicking opening folders, or maybe double-clicking links in the web browsers. Yes, I know it's not the actual click that's the patent but what it does. But still, it's pretty stupid. Maybe I should patent the wheel and see if I can get it through all the way. That'd be cool. Huhuhuhhuhuh. Yeah.
I am sorry to say that we're fighting a losing battle. No matter what we do, in a couple of years everything will be owned by only a handful of companies and everything you do on your computer must be approved by Microsoft or some other company. It's ashamed... Really.
It seems to me that Will Wright have a secret Fetisch for Robots. Every other meaning he speaks ends with "... with robots!". And talk about being short of ideas... They're actually thinking of stuff like SimCity the Sitcom? How boring would that be on a scale from one to ten?