I think its a little contradictory.... How in the world can a cereal claim to be coffee flavered, which has got to mean that its delicious, and be 97% fat free, which also means it tastes like compressed sawdust flakes? Coffee flavored sawdust?
And, WHERE'S MY CAFFINE, DAMMIT?!?!?!? You mean I still gotta have my coffee with my coffee flavored cereal just to get my morning caffine fix? Oh, excuse me, *flavoured* cereal....
BAH! Its already been stated that M$ has been using strong-arm, predatory, monopolistic power to quell the efforts of any competitors. This is already a well known fact. The reason these issues have not been resolved, is much M$ has the money to pay off companies in exchange for their silence and their ability to spend millions of dollars on cases to deplete their accusers of funds, effectively forcing them to drop their case agains M$. But, who cares?
The reality is that while there are legitimate companies out there that make better or worse quality products still need to make money off their product in order to continue making that product and improving it while MS$ bundles their software with their OS, effectively making it FREE! Who wants to pay for something when they can get it for free? This forces other competing companies to look for other ways of making money. REAL went to advertising and such. I can't really blame them, even if it is annoying.
Bundle it with new PC's? That won't happen until M$ decides to start allowing OEM's to install the competition's software without it being a violation of their contract of exclusivity.
It *is* difficult to remove IE and WMP. I've gone through once about a year ago and tried to delete them, but it looks like the only things that were removed were the shortcuts on the desktop and the start menu. It's not worth the effor it takes to remove them. The most annoying part is that WMP tries to change the default application back to WMP after you changed it to something else.
When you get right down to it, Netscape went to crap only because they were unable to make the money needed to improve thier product. The same thing is happening to REAL.
I don't understand how people can form an opinion about legal matters, like this one, based on the quality of a product. Ristupulous!
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I think its a little contradictory.... How in the world can a cereal claim to be coffee flavered, which has got to mean that its delicious, and be 97% fat free, which also means it tastes like compressed sawdust flakes? Coffee flavored sawdust? And, WHERE'S MY CAFFINE, DAMMIT?!?!?!? You mean I still gotta have my coffee with my coffee flavored cereal just to get my morning caffine fix? Oh, excuse me, *flavoured* cereal....
BAH! Its already been stated that M$ has been using strong-arm, predatory, monopolistic power to quell the efforts of any competitors. This is already a well known fact. The reason these issues have not been resolved, is much M$ has the money to pay off companies in exchange for their silence and their ability to spend millions of dollars on cases to deplete their accusers of funds, effectively forcing them to drop their case agains M$. But, who cares?
The reality is that while there are legitimate companies out there that make better or worse quality products still need to make money off their product in order to continue making that product and improving it while MS$ bundles their software with their OS, effectively making it FREE! Who wants to pay for something when they can get it for free? This forces other competing companies to look for other ways of making money. REAL went to advertising and such. I can't really blame them, even if it is annoying.
Bundle it with new PC's? That won't happen until M$ decides to start allowing OEM's to install the competition's software without it being a violation of their contract of exclusivity.
It *is* difficult to remove IE and WMP. I've gone through once about a year ago and tried to delete them, but it looks like the only things that were removed were the shortcuts on the desktop and the start menu. It's not worth the effor it takes to remove them. The most annoying part is that WMP tries to change the default application back to WMP after you changed it to something else.
When you get right down to it, Netscape went to crap only because they were unable to make the money needed to improve thier product. The same thing is happening to REAL.
I don't understand how people can form an opinion about legal matters, like this one, based on the quality of a product. Ristupulous!