This speech is an indirect attack by Microsoft upon Apple's success in the digital media world. This article details the tightening of Google/Apple ties as they reach further into technology's future. Microsoft is clearly being left behind, so Microsoft needs to start stirring up the legal battles.
Wasn't it always Microsoft that accused competitors of fighting in the courtroom because they were not able to win in the marketplace?
It's closed source, meaning that it might be as bad as IE and we just don't know.
I do not buy into the oft cited concept that closed source is less secure. Look at Sendmail, look at Firefox. Both are rife with security issues, and both are open source.
Security 'sploits are the result of poor programming, not closed source.
They need to change the default settings if they want to get more users.
That is 100% correct. Opera default settings result in a screen that is way too cluttered and complex. The default settings should result in a very simple screen for browsing. Then let the users complicate things if they want to. The users who are capable of handling the extra complexity will find the configuration adjustments, and tailor the user interface to their needs very quickly.
You don't know how many times I have seen people stop using Opera because the default settings are bad.
... I can not but wonder why FireFox is considered to be a secure browser. It seems to have more security issues than IE lately. Is the underlying code quality of FireFox that bad?
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It takes far too many pages to say what could actually fit in a page or two.
With all these performance-improving things, shouldn't performance actually, you know, be improved?
Yes, it should.
The fact that performance has not improved is the reason behind articles like this in which Microsoft is talking about how great Vista is, when it really is disappointment.
Anyone who thinks the MPAA (and the RIAA) are really concerned about protection of the creative rights of the artists is fooling themselves.
The MPAA and RIAA are concerned about nothing more than maximizing revenues for the organizations they represent. Period.
The mention of the artists is only to make it appear as if the MPAA and RIAA have some sort of noble purpose. The MPAA and RIAA represent the media content industry executives, not the artists.
I've said in the past that the model upon which WikiPedia is based is a flawed one. It is good to see that others are beginning to view the majority of WikiPedia as what it really is: unsubstantiated documentation of pop culture fads.
Note that Active-X failed as badly as Java Applets
Simply not true. Active-X is on many, many websites nowadays.
Try blocking Active-X in IE and see how many websites look different (many). Then block Java applets, and see how many websites look different (hardly any).
both Java Applets and Active-X applets failed
Your incorrect assertion leads to your erroneous conclusion.
We must ask why Java applets haven't become ubiquitous on the internet as the client-side standard for RIAs....
The Java runtime that Microsoft distributed with Internet Explorer was non-standard. Microsoft used that lack of standards compliance to make it appear as if client-side Java did not work correctly, effectively slowing down Java's acceptance in favor of Microsoft's Active-X technology.
When I customize a PC, I get a pop-up box saying that the optical drive (I stayed with the default 48X CD-RW/ DVD Combo Drive) is not compatible with Windows Vista. I am not able to put the PC into my shopping cart until I resolve the "error".
So even though Dell will allow me to select a PC without Windows on the hard disk, Dell will not let me check out unless the PC I select is Vista-compatible.
They're about equal with everybody else when it comes to laptops
Thanks for confirming my assertion.
In notebooks, Apple cannot be just average ("about equal to everyone else"), they have to be excellent. Unless Apple hardware is across the board excellent OS-X will suffer.
The Apple hardware people need to get their act together, otherwise they are going to fall behind (and drag down) the OS-X people.
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Wasn't it always Microsoft that accused competitors of fighting in the courtroom because they were not able to win in the marketplace?
That assumes, of course, that the person with the faked credentials knows enough to understand what the patent application is about.
Hopefully, the US Patent Office will not allow people with false credentials to review the patents.
In other words, he thinks WikiPedia is great because he does not know (or is in denial) about the problems within it.
Then why does WikiPedia itself imply that it is a reference work?
For example, Wikipedia has certain advantages over other reference works.
I do not buy into the oft cited concept that closed source is less secure. Look at Sendmail, look at Firefox. Both are rife with security issues, and both are open source.
Security 'sploits are the result of poor programming, not closed source.
That is 100% correct. Opera default settings result in a screen that is way too cluttered and complex. The default settings should result in a very simple screen for browsing. Then let the users complicate things if they want to. The users who are capable of handling the extra complexity will find the configuration adjustments, and tailor the user interface to their needs very quickly.
You don't know how many times I have seen people stop using Opera because the default settings are bad.
... I can not but wonder why FireFox is considered to be a secure browser. It seems to have more security issues than IE lately. Is the underlying code quality of FireFox that bad?
It takes far too many pages to say what could actually fit in a page or two.
We also have learned that Microsoft may even be above the law in some respects.
Yes, it should.
The fact that performance has not improved is the reason behind articles like this in which Microsoft is talking about how great Vista is, when it really is disappointment.
How many people are going to ask Dell to pre-install Windows?
The MPAA and RIAA are concerned about nothing more than maximizing revenues for the organizations they represent. Period.
The mention of the artists is only to make it appear as if the MPAA and RIAA have some sort of noble purpose. The MPAA and RIAA represent the media content industry executives, not the artists.
I've said in the past that the model upon which WikiPedia is based is a flawed one. It is good to see that others are beginning to view the majority of WikiPedia as what it really is: unsubstantiated documentation of pop culture fads.
Do you know whether his commentary was appropriate or just a rant?
Simply not true. Active-X is on many, many websites nowadays.
Try blocking Active-X in IE and see how many websites look different (many). Then block Java applets, and see how many websites look different (hardly any).
both Java Applets and Active-X applets failed
Your incorrect assertion leads to your erroneous conclusion.
The Java runtime that Microsoft distributed with Internet Explorer was non-standard. Microsoft used that lack of standards compliance to make it appear as if client-side Java did not work correctly, effectively slowing down Java's acceptance in favor of Microsoft's Active-X technology.
Exactly true. It just proves what I've said previously that Bill Gates is trying to buy his way into the good graces of history.
The Internet is going to revolutionize everything in five years. Again. Every five years. And again.
What's the story here? That Gates has little more to do than repeat the obvious?
So even though Dell will allow me to select a PC without Windows on the hard disk, Dell will not let me check out unless the PC I select is Vista-compatible.
Flamebait??? :)
Thanks for confirming my assertion.
In notebooks, Apple cannot be just average ("about equal to everyone else"), they have to be excellent. Unless Apple hardware is across the board excellent OS-X will suffer.
The Apple hardware people need to get their act together, otherwise they are going to fall behind (and drag down) the OS-X people.
I should only have to report a problem to Apple. I should not need to report a problem to some random third-party "expeditor".
OS-X is tightly bonded to Apple hardware. Apple should do all within its powers to assure the hardware is nothing less than excellent.
Have any statistics to back up that assertion, and how it applies to the topic under discussion?