The funniest thing about all this is that they're "threatening" to stop shipping it.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Davidson > Sent: 15 March 2002 17:26 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] <OT>M$ to stop shipping windoze? > > > On Friday 15 March 2002 11:47 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 19:07, Bill Davidson wrote: > > > Anyone think they would do it? > > > > > > http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/24278.html > > > > > > Bill > > > > > > ---- > > > > It is a smokescreen to "scare" everybody (snicker) and also an obscenely > > blatant posture posed to gain sympathy for their "case". > > > > If the DOJ hadn't been bought off by Republican lobbying by M$, (they > > spent 24 million on the republicans, btw) it's entirely probable that > > they would have been broken up by now. There have been three judges on > > this case; and in every case, Microsoft (through its MSNBC news services > > and other means) have been able to push the view that these judges were > > biased. This trend is unparalleled as far as I know. Judge Colleen is > > probably going to be the last stop; the "biased judge" routine was old > > before it started. > > Actually, I believe that M$ might have tied in the code for IE with > windoze so that they could say 'See, look what happens when you remove > IE'. They think everyone is dumb and they can just paint their > own picture > of how things are and that's the way it will be. Of course that's their > problem and they'll have to rework windoze if that's in fact > true. I think > it would be corporate suicide if they were to stop shipping windoze. > > Bill > >
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