Yes of coarse it will affect us. It will be more money
paid by the customer to microsoft intsead of the
cafe's. Why do you suppose M.$. is doing it. It's the
big "sell nothing but services" game. That way you pay
and pay and pay and.... Get it? So this is something
to avoid like the plague. Imagine a world without
ownership? It's a story of total dependancy. Not only
of momopolistic operating systems, but of all
software. I can't even buy a gateway computer without
a microsoft operating system. It wouldn't even work if
I tried to use UNIX instead, because the modem is a
"win" modem. If I get a computer these days, I have to
choose a windoze machine or specially order/build it
myself out of special peices. It won't get better,
only worse, till we all vote with our pocketbooks.
They are getting into this now, but next move will put
the software rented in the former customers home and
you are brushed aside. In the end, everyone will pay
more. Look at the ludacrous prices M.$. elready
charges for their entrenched software. Of coarse it's
cheap to free to educators. That's so they can
indoctrinate the future to a microsoft view of
computers. What are those other strange programs
anyways? Avoid M.$. where-ever possable. They are
selling perceptions and brand rather than efficiency
and self control or flexability. M.$. wants it all:
The internet, OSes, Apps,... Imagine them controlling
Intel? We already almost don't have any choice. It's
their way or the highway. Lack of a choice is a lack
of freedom. M$ is already too powerfull considering
their monopolistic behavior. It's not about being the
best at something anymore, it's about being the
nastiest at everything. What's wrong with Paradox for
a local database & Oracle for network database? Lotus
1-2-3 for a spreadsheet? What software are students
taught by default? What software does the Govt. use?
What about writeing a letter with the wonderful
application called WordPerfect? (probably the best
word processor and not a microsoft product)
Are M.$. OSes/Apps.:
cheaper? no.
More efficient on system resources? Insufficient
memory to answer question.
Faster?...........................................................................................
Compact? bloat bloat bloat.
Secure? Ha ha ha.
More stable? "It should be called windows Blue Screen
of Death."
Can you control what's happening to your machine, etc.
better? Not a chance.
Do you like haveing IDs attached to your documents? Do
you like haveing I.E. grab control from netscape and
refuse to let it back? What nasty little things are
happening inside your computer that you can't see
happening? What is the reason you just about NEED to
have 64meg of ram on your computer these days. (other
than CAD or other Graphics rendering software) On this
licenseing thing...if we snoose, we die as an industry
unless we just want to be a restaurant with computers.
Imagine if you bought a boat and were told you
couldn't rent it or loan it to others? What if you
were sold a horse and told that only one person could
ride it? So what gives software sellers the right to
say how you can use the computer you bought? Why can't
you send the disc back to the company for a refund if
you don't agree to that agreement that you never could
read without: buying , opening, and beginning to
install the software. Microsoft wouldn't keep tabs on
your useage and information for
marketing(advertisers), and strategic planning while
you use their software online right? Oh...did you
think you could use it offline? Maybe...it might wait
till you connect again to report back to daddy Gates,
or just decide to connect for you. In any case, I'm
sure cookies, active-X, java, and such would probably
be required. Imagine how my firewall would act...
By the way, isn't ASP supposed to stand for Active
Server Pages?
I send this to you through M.$.I.E. on a win'95
computer over a win-modem through the ISPs M$N.T.
machine to yahoos' M$IIS machine to your M.$.N.
account where you read it on your win'98/winME/win2000
machine with M.$. Outlook/express and cut& copy it to
your M.$. Word document and it is assigned a secret
ID#
I know it will be directed over seas (at least to the
UK) where it is filtered by the echelon spy network (I
will reject 2 persistent cookies when I click send,
but first I must re-logon to AOheck because it boots
me every 3.47 minutes if I lock my firewall)
This all makes me so weary.
Brian Frasier.
NorthEast Digital.
--- from skyblu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Below is a VERY interestint article about Microsoft.
> Do you think they will
> work with smaller cafes? I wonder how this will
> affect all of us???
>
> Karen
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