Besides, if the enemy has decided to put on his Armor of Laser Resistance +1, you can always just go back to Plan A and drop a really big bomb on his head. At least you won't have any problem spotting them (shiny !)
Wrong conception, MS only needs to hand out specification and more (indeed secret IP) to a member of congress ! Not to any competition. The only thing EU wants to make sure is that MS software will be able to play with other products or vice versa.
EU businesses would scream bloody murder and governments across the EU would be in chaos.
You mean that same chaos as people now scrambling to "Get ready for tomorrow" (or whatever the MS slogan is). Except that most (80%-90%) of the people here are already running Windows in several version which can not and will not be retracted. (Just like Windows 98 and 2000 are still being used, although very slowly shifting) So if the new (Vista) product wouldn't be shipped here there would be no loss and the next release of OpenOffice or other open source replacements for MS software would certainly draw more attention.
Any functionality extra in the newer versions can be duplicated or already is duplicated. And for interoperability ? Some other poster here mentions market size in EU is 2x the market size in US so EU has 2/3 majority.
Look at race horses, they have only been selective breeding for about 200 years and results are the top-line horses run about 2x as fast as those 100 years ago.
It affects many users and has serious consequences for business. We tried and promoted OpenOffice to some of our customers but they decided to switch back to MS Excel because of the "Decimal point is seperator" option which is lacking in OO.
Seriously, if OO only fixed this bug first before anything else, I could go and install OO on about 100 computers easily.
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Perhaps a more valid answer is that they checksum and register certain key-dll files thru their activation system, to detect tampering.
And having this certain dll file change twice within the hour would probably trigger some sort of alert to "unlicensed activity"
So you could state that business is like normal : the downwards quality trend continues.
:D )
I can't recall more than 5 problems upgrading from 95 to 98 back in the days (other than the huge system requirements bump - sounds funny now eh
Or like Valve / Steam does.
Wrong conception, MS only needs to hand out specification and more (indeed secret IP) to a member of congress ! Not to any competition. The only thing EU wants to make sure is that MS software will be able to play with other products or vice versa.
You mean that same chaos as people now scrambling to "Get ready for tomorrow" (or whatever the MS slogan is).
Except that most (80%-90%) of the people here are already running Windows in several version which can not and will not be retracted. (Just like Windows 98 and 2000 are still being used, although very slowly shifting)
So if the new (Vista) product wouldn't be shipped here there would be no loss and the next release of OpenOffice or other open source replacements for MS software would certainly draw more attention.
Any functionality extra in the newer versions can be duplicated or already is duplicated. And for interoperability ? Some other poster here mentions market size in EU is 2x the market size in US so EU has 2/3 majority.
Perhaps he has a googol girlfriends :)
Look at race horses, they have only been selective breeding for about 200 years and results are the top-line horses run about 2x as fast as those 100 years ago.
It may however expose certain DNA feats which enable us to live longer.
And who might you be to tell me this then ?
I don't see you carrying that much weight nor counter-argument to the article.
The point is I referenced that article for a quick summary to the safety in numbers discussion.
Yes, that means AOL can cancel your account without telling you why.
:)
If only they'd do this with their "subscriber"-list from time to time
A better proof of why there are no(t as much) viruses for linux.
p ort_windows_vs_linux/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_re
Also OpenOffice is lacking seriously in user friendlieness in 1 point (see http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1 820)
It affects many users and has serious consequences for business. We tried and promoted OpenOffice to some of our customers but they decided to switch back to MS Excel because of the "Decimal point is seperator" option which is lacking in OO.
Seriously, if OO only fixed this bug first before anything else, I could go and install OO on about 100 computers easily.
This site is now officially /.'ed :p ...
Makes me wonder if their webserver is running SkyOS Apache or something