... leveraging and building upon the MS-DOS monopoly is the reason why Microsoft was successful.
Everything else is just Gates' PR people trying to make history be kind to Gates, in spite of the fact that he raped the personal computer industry of profits and innovation during his tenure.
Microsoft is trying to position ODF as a "consumer" format, and OOXML as the more capable "professional" format.
The question is whether Microsoft is going to really support ODF or just give lip-service token support. For example, how fast are bugs in the ODF support going to be fixed? Remember how Micorsoft "supported" Java with their non-compliant, buggy implementation?
I'd bet if they would find an even better correlation if they looked at the age of the website's domain registration, not the domain it was registered under.
Wired has an interview with MediaDefender in which they try to explain why they attacked Revision3...
Try to explain? The bottom line is MediaDefender attacked another commercial entity.
If someone throws a stink bomb through a brick & mortar storefront window, forcing the store to close, do you think the police would allow the offender to get off with saying, "oops"?
The only question is: Why did it take four decades for its overnight success?
The only real innovation I see in "touch" is coming from Apple, not Microsoft.
As usual, Gates is behind the curve. Why in the world does anyone think Bill Gates is a forward-looking thinker? All he knows about is the maintenace of monopolies, and the stifling of innovation to accomplish the same.
I wonder what the results would be if a real, commercial Windows kernel were tested instead of a research-oriented one. I doubt if the research kernel was ever subjected to the "have to release it on time" programming deadlines.
Most users can live without all the whiz-bang features of MS Office; I could have for the year I tried using OO - but I could not stand the sloooooow load times and hanging when opening big files. As soon as I got Office 2003 running under Wine, I switched to that.
OpenOffice needs to stop trying to be a competitor of MS Office, and start being a useful piece of software that people not only want to use, but can use.
It's about being for the users, not against Microsoft Office.
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Everything else is just Gates' PR people trying to make history be kind to Gates, in spite of the fact that he raped the personal computer industry of profits and innovation during his tenure.
Microsoft does not need an excuse to write a buggy ODF implementation, they already have a reason why it would be in their interest to do so.
The question is whether Microsoft is going to really support ODF or just give lip-service token support. For example, how fast are bugs in the ODF support going to be fixed? Remember how Micorsoft "supported" Java with their non-compliant, buggy implementation?
I do go out and do things, in fact I spend a lot of time outside. What I do not do is trespass and blame the internet for making me do it.
She has obviously lost her objectivity in judging the qualifications of those who work for her.
From this point forward, any male who works for her will know that he is at a systemic disadvantage.
I wonder what the equal employment opportunity commission has to say on her gender biases in the workplace?
The ability to spot and prevent faults is a big part of what makes a great engineer.
CAN-SPAM is a farce, anyone who believes otherwise either does not have an inbox or thinks the Internet is made of tubes.
Of what you do not know, you should not speak.
Ultraedit seems to be very much alive. More than likely due to its excellent feature set and very reasonable pricing.
Open source is not killing commercial software, open source is killing over-priced commercial software.
You mean your original message wasn't intended to be funny?
And what a reach it was.
I'd bet if they would find an even better correlation if they looked at the age of the website's domain registration, not the domain it was registered under.
Try to explain? The bottom line is MediaDefender attacked another commercial entity.
If someone throws a stink bomb through a brick & mortar storefront window, forcing the store to close, do you think the police would allow the offender to get off with saying, "oops"?
It does not sound like the type of company that thinks of its customers as an enemy, as your message implies.
... for posting frequent updates to the status of the outage.
Maybe. I keep wonderng where the loophole is, and how big it is.
It is nostalgic if you have a copy and no one else wants it.
According to Microsoft, Vista actually was designed to be annoying. That is one design goal in which Microsoft seems to have succeeded.
Why do monopolies stifle innovation?
The only real innovation I see in "touch" is coming from Apple, not Microsoft.
As usual, Gates is behind the curve. Why in the world does anyone think Bill Gates is a forward-looking thinker? All he knows about is the maintenace of monopolies, and the stifling of innovation to accomplish the same.
I wonder what the results would be if a real, commercial Windows kernel were tested instead of a research-oriented one. I doubt if the research kernel was ever subjected to the "have to release it on time" programming deadlines.
OpenOffice needs to stop trying to be a competitor of MS Office, and start being a useful piece of software that people not only want to use, but can use.
It's about being for the users, not against Microsoft Office.
Customers buy the product, therefore they are not thieves. As your comment shows, DRM does not prevent thievery, but it does annoy customers.
Open Office needs to go on a diet in a mjor way.