On Friday 15 March 2002 10:57, Lyvim Xaphir opened a hailing frequency and transmitted:
> On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 12:25, Bill Davidson wrote: > > I think it would be corporate suicide if they were to stop > > shipping windoze. maybe, but the roads of IT are paved with the corpses of people who thought MS couldn't succeed selling a crappy product. marketing is wonderful ain't it? they ship the xbox at a loss. why is that do you think? here is an idea. 4-5 years from now, can you see an xbox, or "windows server" at the center of every home serving windows "xxps 2007" or whatever poor name they come up with, serving video, audio, and web content to thin clients? i bet MS can. but they can't afford to ship windows anymore. darn unreasonable DOJ. so they only sell their OS with their hardware, but you buy it cause that is the only way to have IE, and office, and everyone and their dog run those, besides, if you have an xbox you won't have crashes, right? just like you got 95 to avoid those dos crashes, and 98 cause 9 crashed, and.... and how else do you use your MS tablet pc to control your home? sounds silly, but if you told 6 years ago that ms would take over the browser market by shipping a poor excuse for a browser with all windows versions, i would have laughed. MS has dictated hardware policy for years. they are lossing that now, to a degree. why not crush the hardware makers like they crushed OS2, BeOS, Dr.DOS...... it is a long list. and people upgrade their hardware all the time, right? > What people need to realize is that there are liars, damn liars, and > Microsoft marketing reps. Windoze is a product of posturing, > perception, and ignorance; in short, marketing. As such, there is > vanishing little of technical value in their OS. You will see more lies > in court as M$ defends itself than you will ever see anywhere else. > This includes the removability issue surrounding Internet Exploiter. i have admit, i am confused as to how they submitted false evidence, later admitted it, and yet there is still a question about the case? an even better question, why does the american government buy software from criminals they are in court with? > I recommend the following book: > > Barbarians Led by Bill Gates > ISBN 0-8050-5754-4 thanks, will look it up -- We are Linux. Resistance is measured in Ohms. shane http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/
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