I'm building a box for a buddy right now, and it has boot from USB device in the BIOS, I purposely did not install a floppy, although this is my first attempt at doing without one... wish me luck, just gonna use the DVD/CD-RW combo thingey...
1)unbundled, untied browser, media player, messenger services, streaming players
2)no enforced registration
3)easier more accurate install/uninstall routines
4)no DRM or similar abuse of MY system and freedoms
5)more thorough release of programming API's - no more secrets to provide for competitive products, rather than hobbling non-Microsoft products
6)no more anti-competitive behaviour
7)no more lying to the courts or the people about Microsoft software and business practices
8)what is with this Microsoft certified driver thingey? another way to get money from device manufacturers, which directly gets passed to consumers ??? and gives Microsoft MORE unwanted, undesired control over MY choices...
9)no more ILLEGAL, improper, undisclosed surreptitious gathering of information about me, my products, my activities, my wants, desires, or needs, my passwords, my software - in short CEASE AND DESIST SPYING on consumers... it is not for our benefit and NEVER CAN be...
10)tight, secure, finished code in Microsoft products, meaning no more bloat, no more back doors, no more viruses, no more vulnerabilities
11)open formats, codecs, and interoperability
12) stop stealing others work and products and trying to bastardize it or manipulate it's operation, usage, usability, functioning, distribution
13)stop bundling said bastardizations into an operating system
14)OS is an OS work on it and improve it
15)apps and apps, they will take care of themselves - or not
16)continueing Microsoft's substandard work and products will continue to drive / force Microsoft users to FOSS or another proprietary product, but still away from MS - read 1 through 15
17)continueing support for existing and opening file formats unto perpetuity
18)proper tools sets / compilers etc...
19)CHOICES
20)retraction/repudiation of all current and prior
EULA's
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define legitimate popup ...
And then only from an extremely frustrated and PO'ed secondary user, not from Microsoft
Like Micro$haft ...
Metacrawler.com
sig says it all ...
I'm building a box for a buddy right now, and it has boot from USB device in the BIOS, I purposely did not install a floppy, although this is my first attempt at doing without one ... wish me luck, just gonna use the DVD/CD-RW combo thingey ...
and a Firefox, and a Mozilla boulder ... maybe an Opera House, after we go on Safari ...
and for those of you without a sense of humour, Matt Groening is from Canada ( creator of Simpsons and Futurama ) ...
No, the greatest travesty of justice of all time, is and remains, the Microsoft / DoJ ...
how about a 12" pop-up? :)
64.73.28.28 ??? could not be found on internic ...
before answering the survey, just create a new disposable hotmail account ...
it's not an official / sanctioned survey ? seems like this is some middle manager just got an idea, and went with it ...
1)unbundled, untied browser, media player, messenger services, streaming players 2)no enforced registration 3)easier more accurate install/uninstall routines 4)no DRM or similar abuse of MY system and freedoms 5)more thorough release of programming API's - no more secrets to provide for competitive products, rather than hobbling non-Microsoft products 6)no more anti-competitive behaviour 7)no more lying to the courts or the people about Microsoft software and business practices 8)what is with this Microsoft certified driver thingey? another way to get money from device manufacturers, which directly gets passed to consumers ??? and gives Microsoft MORE unwanted, undesired control over MY choices ...
9)no more ILLEGAL, improper, undisclosed surreptitious gathering of information about me, my products, my activities, my wants, desires, or needs, my passwords, my software - in short CEASE AND DESIST SPYING on consumers ... it is not for our benefit and NEVER CAN be ...
10)tight, secure, finished code in Microsoft products, meaning no more bloat, no more back doors, no more viruses, no more vulnerabilities
11)open formats, codecs, and interoperability
12) stop stealing others work and products and trying to bastardize it or manipulate it's operation, usage, usability, functioning, distribution
13)stop bundling said bastardizations into an operating system
14)OS is an OS work on it and improve it
15)apps and apps, they will take care of themselves - or not
16)continueing Microsoft's substandard work and products will continue to drive / force Microsoft users to FOSS or another proprietary product, but still away from MS - read 1 through 15
17)continueing support for existing and opening file formats unto perpetuity
18)proper tools sets / compilers etc ...
19)CHOICES
20)retraction/repudiation of all current and prior
EULA's