Richard Reynolds wrote:
Pre-Microsoft computers* were no more a pain for those who learned on
them than were Microsoft computers* a pain for those who learned on them.
OK so that needed a comma "Pre-M$, computers were a pain"
then it becomes for those who learned on IT. because my blue computer
was completely different than my brown computer. Now ive gone and done
it, I know the blue one was blue, but was the brown one brown???? DANG
IT!!!
I'm sorry, maybe it's just me. But that was fairly incomprehensible.
if you want to work with M$ you can they will let you, you have to
pay, and you have to play by there rules, but it works.
After all, MS prefers zero competitors. Zero. Which is why "It" (your
"it" above) doesn't work most of the time.
Any business would prefere to have zero competition!
and according to
http://www.forbes.com/2008/03/05/richest-people-billionaires-billionaires08-cx_lk_0305billie_land.html
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft
I'd say IT worked!!!
the poor dude is down to #3 such a bummer, his toilet water is probibly
more expensive than what I have in my bank account right now :D
Anyone who measures wealth and value in terms of money only is a poor
person indeed. (America's robber barons were wealthy also.)
* What is a Microsoft computer anyway? AFAIK, Microsoft has never made
computer.
I don't know :D however could one call a M$ computer any computer in
which say Intel/AMD changed plans in there processor family in order to
run M$ software better??? how about hard drives being designed to run
windows better?
Sorry, I hadn't heard of that one.
the list of hardware manufacturers that are tweaking
there hardware so it runs on M$ Winhozed better is long.
My experience is that while virtually all hardware runs on Windows, it
doesn't necessarily run better than it would on another OS. It's not
that manufacturers tweak their products so they run better on Windows,
it's so they run at all on Windows, given that almost no one knows what
the Windows API rules de jour are.
That's a result of MS never really divulging enough info about its OS to
any but a very, VERY small number of "Partners" (eventually to be road
kill under MS's wheels) in order to build a simple, robust, decently
working product. And that info is given only on the promise that it
won't be used to directly compete with MS.
I think I
remember something about that, at least every time a new piece of
hardware is released.
Why wouldn't a manufacturer build his products to inter-operate with the
dominant OS? That's not a measure of MS value, goodness, or usability.
Only of its market mass.
Or if your brain hurts how about an X-Box :D though thats hopefully clearly not
what I ment.
I guess the X-box slipped my mind because it's not a general purpose PC
(well, unless it's running Linux :P ), but marginally built game console
sold at a huge loss in order to subsidize an overvalued and tightly
controlled game publishing division.
I still dont see how another company deserves a handout to help them
compete.
Want to compete. I'm ALL for it. Find a better product (who cares how)
but it had better be better, not just an alternative. Because this "Its
better because its not M$" is not going to work. Set a better price, ok
how about a fair price Winhozed isnt really that expensive.
Compared to what? Linux is free. Even OS X, while not cheap, is a far
better value. However even with the innovation of Apple (which is
eventually copied by MS three or four years later and called NEW!) they
have a very difficult time competing in a economic sector co-opted by MS
through decades of anti-competitive behavior and downright criminal
activity.
(Ironically, it's not Apple's innovation and marketing prowess that has
caused its market share to rise dramatically in recent years, but MS
being its own worst enemy: creating software, generally so broken,
finally pissing off enough people that they're starting to look for
something they don't want daily to throw through the closest window (pun
intended)).
Find a
marketing department to come up with a name, this will help you NOT come
up with stupid names like lindows. Create catchy advertisements. And in
one year spend 1/5 of what M$ spends on marketing in a day.
2. Get bought by Microsoft
4. ???
5. Profit
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