> Can you name a single example of that? Probably not, because even
> Windows itself runs just fine on e.g. Macs. Not so for OS X - well,
> not easily anyway.
>
> Silverlight is still fairly new, but it works on all platforms. It's
> specious to claim that someday in the future "when it becomes popular"
> they'll throw some switch and make it only work in Windows.
> >
>> > Are you naive or just making believe you are naive?
>> > We've all seen how MS does things like lure the public in with an
>> > "alternative" to something and then alters it so that it only
works for
>> > Windows users.
Examples:
1- Microsoft rewrote Java without Sun's permission so that it wasn't
universal, platform neutral.
2- Microsoft has web authoring tools that create web pages that only
work in Internet Explorer, and if not IE, only in Windows with sites for
Unix/Linux/Macs crippled.
3- Internet Explorer for Macs was discontinued with v.5, although
IE-only sites are plentiful.
4- MS Windows Media Player was discontinued with v.9. Non-Windows
versions have always been crippled. Some sites require the newest
version, i.e. Windows-only.
5- Silverlight doesn't run on my MacBook because it has Tiger instead of
Leopard. Almost all sites with Silverlight require newest version. Adobe
Flash runs just fine on my MacBook and our old G4 and G5. MS SUCKS.
I'm still mad at MS for charging me $30 for installation disks of
Windows 2000 back when they first crippled, then discontinued VirtualPC
for Macs. After getting my money, they said that the software was
discontinued [because they delayed shipment until after it was
discontinued] and, by the way, refused to refund my payment. Only after
a month of long distance phone calls and faxes, they sent me upgrade
disks which are useless, then after another month of talking with
supervisers, and supervisers' supervisers, I finally got my installation
disks.
Adobe can be annoying, but never abusive like MS. Most Mac users I know
also use Windows, some use Linux. We know what good software acts like
and compared to everything else, MS products are mediocre at best, and
the company is the same. Apple never promised that OS X would run on
anything other than Macs, but the Internet must be platform neutral. MS
works hard to avoid that.
Betty
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