“Nearly a decade after the government began its landmark effort to break up Microsoft, the Bush administration has sharply changed course by repeatedly defending the company both in the United States and abroad against accusations of anticompetitive conduct, including the recent rejection of a complaint by Google,” Stephen Labaton reports for The New York Times.
“The retrenchment reflects a substantially different view of antitrust policy, as well as a recognition of major changes in the marketplace. The battlefront among technology companies has shifted from computer desktop software, a category that Microsoft dominates, to Internet search and Web-based software programs that allow users to bypass products made by Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker,” Labaton reports.
“In the most striking recent example of the policy shift, the top antitrust official at the Justice Department last month urged state prosecutors to reject a confidential antitrust complaint filed by Google that is tied to a consent decree that monitors Microsoft’s behavior. Google has accused Microsoft of designing its latest operating system, Vista, to discourage the use of Google’s desktop search program, lawyers involved in the case said,” Labaton reports. “The official, Thomas O. Barnett, an assistant attorney general, had until 2004 been a top antitrust partner at the law firm that has represented Microsoft in several antitrust disputes.”
“The memo illustrates the political transformation of Microsoft, as well as the shift in antitrust policy between officials appointed by President Bill Clinton and by President Bush,” Labaton reports. “Microsoft was saved from being split in half by a federal appeals court decision handed down early in the Bush administration. The ruling, in 2001, found that the company had repeatedly abused its monopoly power in the software business, but it reversed a lower court order sought by the Clinton administration to split up the company.”
“Google complained to federal and state prosecutors that consumers who try to use its search tool for computer hard drives on Vista were frustrated because Vista has a competing desktop search program that cannot be turned off. When the Google and Vista search programs are run simultaneously on a computer, their indexing programs slow the operating system considerably, Google contended. As a result, Google said that Vista violated Microsoft’s 2002 antitrust settlement, which prohibits Microsoft from designing operating systems that limit the choices of consumers,” Labaton reports.
Labaton reports,” Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut attorney general, declined to talk about the substance of the complaint, or which company made it. But he said the memo from Mr. Barnett surprised him. ‘Eyebrows were raised by this letter in our group, as much by the substance and tone as by the past relationship the author had had with Microsoft,’ said Mr. Blumenthal, one of the few state prosecutors who has been involved in the case since its outset. ‘In concept, if not directly word for word, it is the Microsoft-Netscape situation,’ Mr. Blumenthal said. ‘The question is whether we’re seeing déjà vu all over again.'”
Much more in the full article here.
“Money changes everything.” – Cyndi Lauper
Vista search – another misery inflicted upon the American public by the current adminsitration.
.. or administration, if my fingers could type on a Sunday morning.
As long as the world is starting to realize the true nature of this multi-billion dollar evil empire (M$), its all good.
Hence why I hate Microsoft with a passion, because they steal everyone’s potential.
Its better that google cooperate with apple to deliver killing blow to microsoft. By develop more free or open source apps for apple.
It goes to show what happens when you put a low IQ person on the top leading a group of low IQ people limited to an OS that promotes low IQ-ness
This is just a game!
Google is doing this because when they release their ***deleted*** it’s going to be MICROSOFT that is going to cry and wail.
Google is spending billions to build data centers all over the country.
For what we don’t know yet. But Apple is in on it.
DIE REDMOND BASTARDS!!!
Is this really a surprise to anyone?
This administration is more pro-corporation than the Reagan administration.
The only difference here is Pro-Bush people probably applauded the corporate protection moves by Bush.
Corporatism = Fascism – so says Benito Mussolini
So basically this complaint is just designed to lesson the impact when Google releases their product that cripples Microsoft.
Really, who in the heck needs to run two disk search engines at the same time anyhow? Sure it’s going to slow the computer down.
Rather weak complaint I say. But it obviously has a purpose, perhaps flush out the M$ paid people in Washington.
Microsoft is sure to wail up a storm if Google steps firmly in their backyard.
Perhaps Google will release their own OS?
Free? With Google Office? Free?
Hahahahaha!! Watch out for flying chairs!!
Gee, one bunch of sleazy thieves in cahoots with another?
NEVER! This is America!
MDN Magic Word: Quality … oh, really? HARDLY!
This is from 2003
http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-1021938.html
But think what four years of giant dollars can do in Washington D.C.
And THIS is from 2007
http://tinyurl.com/yp7443
It’s been said that Microsoft is a law firm that happens to write software…Pretty close to the truth.
The move by the Bush admin to protect Microsoft was one, I believe, to protect his ecomomic record. When the Bush admin took over in 2000, the economy was in a very shaky position. Antyhing done to MS at the time would have probably sent Wall street into a panic and hence there would have been a ripple effect on the economy.
The Bush economic record has been fairly good if you look at the numbers. I just think they don’t want to upset the apple cart
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$200 billion a year in world taxes buys a lot of wars. The world has to pay for Team America’s ‘World Police’ somehow!
Let me see now
Google has a rather weak compaint that running their disk search and Vista’s at the same time slows the computer down, like anyone really needs to run two search engines at once anyway.
So Google doesn’t get what it want’s, like all of us have to bear sometimes in our lives. (Can I get out of jail early? -Paris Hilton) and then because it lacks merit it’s automatically the political president in charge’s fault?
Or is this just sensationism writing by a left leaning journalist to foster hate against the present political party in charge that was rightfully elected by the majority of the country?
Who’s being played here? The stupid asses that fall foaming at the mouth for race, politics or religion.
Why be so narrow with your thoughts and blind to seeing everything from all points of view?
Hate is a emotion that serious errodes your health and makes people who are guided by it, manipulated by it from others, look like complete and utter fools.
Fear is the key, fear leads to hate, hate to anger and anger to violence.
No fear. No xenophobia, no problem.
Whaterver one would call the the opposite of the Midas touch, the Bush admisintration has it. Ergo, a close association with MS is in everyone’s best interest.
Give me money and I’ll do whatever you want. Breaking the rules and starting wars, anything, whatever you want, but you better have a lot of money.
Here we go again.
When the First Lady was preaching from her White House soapbox, she advocated the creation of a Palestinian state. Never mind that this gratuitous policy pronouncement was at variance with the First Husband’s official position concerning Israel.
But shortly after launching her unannounced Senate campaign, she immediately reversed herself by declaring Jerusalem “the eternal and indivisible capital of Israel.” In this transparent move to pander to the N.Y. Jewish constituency, she didn’t even bother to acknowledge, much less reconcile, her prior inconsistent statement.
Then the Terrorist-Pardoner in Chief granted clemency to 16 Puerto Rican terrorists over the vehement objections of all law enforcement agencies and the emphatic condemnation of both houses of Congress. Such an outrageous abuse of presidential authority cannot reasonably be explained, apart from Bill’s effort to enhance his wife’s standing with the N.Y. Hispanic voters.
Hillary, it should be noted, publicly supported her husband’s decision to pardon the unrepentant anarchists. But as soon as it became apparent that the move had backfired, Hillary switched gears again.
She made a public statement asking the president to withdraw his offer of clemency — instead of just going into the other room and talking it over with him. That is, if you believe their insulting joint denial that they had colluded on the matter. With her about-face she not only alienated N.Y. Puerto Ricans, but also seriously offended certain N.Y. leaders by failing to consult with them before announcing her turnaround. N.Y. Rep. Jose Serrano said that another such misstep could be fatal for Hillary’s campaign.
Hillary is also coming under fire from Democrats for relying exclusively on her small cadre of advisors and ignoring the leadership of the party structure. Said N.Y. Congressman Charles Rangel, “Nobody is so good they can make decisions by relying on one or two people and without communication with the leadership of the party.”
Being an equal-opportunity offender, Mrs. Clinton has also managed to alienate the N.Y. African-American community. It seems that she has been unwilling to make herself available for a meeting with black community leaders of New York City.
In addition to her policy gaffes, the Clinton’s home purchase in Chappaqua with the support of Democratic fund-raiser Terry McAuliffe, has drawn Hillary heavy fire on ethical grounds. And her flagrant abuse of public funds to subsidize campaign air travel convinced 46 Democrats to join 215 Republicans in voting to make her fully reimburse those expenditures.
The all-knowing Mrs. Clinton even unwittingly provided some comic relief this week by demonstrating her intimate concern for NYC’s mosquito problem. She was responding to a question about lobbying her husband for federal funds for the city’s mosquito-killing campaign. “I have been concerned about malaria for many years,” said Hillary, revealing that she was painfully unaware that encephalitis, not malaria, is the problem.
Let’s also not forget Hillary’s foray into psychoanalysis when she blamed her husband’s serial philandering on his being whipsawed between two battle-axes in his formative years.
Finally, in her Senate campaign, Mrs. Clinton is in the process of resurrecting the issue that led to the plummeting of her approval ratings in the past, universal health care. Happily for Republicans, Hillary subordinates even her political opportunism to her uncompromising socialistic passions.
So what’s the net result of all this? A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows that 40 percent of Americans now have a negative view of Hillary, up from 25 percent at the start of the year.
Hillary should have listened to those of us who tried to tell her that she could only remain popular if she clings to her victim-status. When she delves into the policy-arena, whether from her Pennsylvania Avenue pulpit or as a senatorial candidate, she forfeits all sympathy lavishly bestowed on her by an anachronistic press still romanticizing the virtues of Marxism.
“Really, who in the heck needs to run two disk search engines at the same time anyhow? Sure it’s going to slow the computer down.”
That’s kind of the whole point. Microslop built a feature into its desktop search utility that slows Google’s search utility down. You can’t turn the M$ utility off, so which one do you think people are going to use? This is blatant anti-competitive design built into Vista, a clear violation of the 2002 settlement worse than identical to the Netscape debacle that started it all. Seems like a pretty strong claim to me.
Turns my stomach how M$ not only leverages its OS dominance in forcing acceptance of its own software, but includes features in Windows to sabotage the competition.
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GW Bush is an Apple guy!! He has an iMac!!!! How could he!!!
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Thanx for the above piece of political ‘balancing’.
The Rs did this. Oh, yeah! Well, the Ds did that.
Are you 12?
MS’s actions EVENTUALLY hurt EVERYONE.
Thanx for the above piece of political ‘balancing’.
The Rs did this. Oh, yeah! Well, the Ds did that.
Are you 12?
MS’s actions EVENTUALLY hurt EVERYONE.
Thanx for the above piece of political ‘balancing’.
The Rs did this. Oh, yeah! Well, the Ds did that.
Are you 12?
MS’s actions EVENTUALLY hurt EVERYONE.
Thanx for the above piece of political ‘balancing’.
The Rs did this. Oh, yeah! Well, the Ds did that.
Are you 12?
MS’s actions EVENTUALLY hurt EVERYONE.
I thought this was supposed to be a site about Macs. What exactly is there about Macs in that article?
“The Bush economic record has been fairly good if you look at the numbers.”
i know over a dozen economists who disagree.
now if you look at the numbers for the rich, and see that get a lot richer, sure, great numbers for them.
…..not everyone is the top .5% in wealth though. by definition.
The Bush administration supported ENRON while they were price gouging the American people! Is anyone surprised by this news? They shouldn’t be. The Bush administration doesn’t give a rats ass about the American people, never have, never will.
Wow. MDN publishes something that presents the Bush admin in bad light. Must be a first.
MDN MW: ‘Indeed.’
PS. However, I don’t think the gummint’s tendency to lick MS’s behind depends on the party in power.
…and this is the same kind of stuff MS has done to thwart Quicktime on PC’s. They don’t play by the rules, because George Bush let’s ’em cheat.
That’s why this is reported on this site, Ronin. It’s related to Apple by the behavior.
@shen
General ecomonic indicators my friend. You know, inflation, unemployement, jobs, etc.
The rich are gonna get more rich no matter what you do shen. That’s why they are rich. They know how to make money. That’s their thing. That’s life.
He and his pro-corporation aka “monoploies” can fuck off. Apple is one of the most Democratic companies today, and that is why Apple users are so liberated
…..Microsoft hired an army of Washington lobbyists to try to get Congress to cut the budget of the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department while its case was before that department. …Thomas L. Friedman, NYTimes, June 2000.
This is just part of Vistas history wow. The wow didn’t start now …it started with the laying of Microsofts foundation. I think with people, in general, it stings a little something deep down in your soul to commit a truely unethical deed ..but who and what are you when you are pathologically unethical. It shames us as members of the human race to learn about the evil that men create. …and these men from Microsoft have given nothing to me but a heart filled with shame …and with a heavy heart I say to the Ballmers and the Gates ..fuck you all to pieces.
Bush showed the world he was dishonest from the beginning, and still people voted for him!
Will you just look at the CLUTTERFSCK MIND OF AL GORE!!
Three goddam 30″ displays and a TV on sucking up precious resorces and contibuting to global warming!!
What the fsck sort of enviromentalist is this jerk?
One who talks the talk but don’t walk the walk!!
He want’s you to ride a bicycle to work 30 minutes a day while he drives a gas guzzing SUV!!!
ALL POLITICIANS LIE AND CHANGE THEIR SPOTS IF IT MEANS LOST VOTES!!!
In February 2000, First Lady Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate at the State University of New York at Purchase.
“I’ve heard parents’ concerns about the media’s influence on their children,” Hillary declared during her announcement speech. “How to protect our children from the influence of popular culture…”
Ironically, moments before she took the stage, a curious warm-up song, specially selected by the Hillary Campaign, had blasted over the gathered crowd — and on to viewers nationwide via C-SPAN and CNN:
“Your sister’s gone out, she’s on a date, and you just sit at home and masturbate… So you go to the village in your tie-dye jeans. And you stare at the junkies and the closet queens. It’s like some pornographic magazine, and you smile… So you play your albums and you smoke your pot. And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot… Captain Jack will get you high tonight!”
Stupid
Mr Bush wants a monopoly too, monoply on power, the so called “unitary executive” . Judicial & legislative branches can just go to hell, and take the Consitution, and treaties, and laws with them too as far has he is concerned.
‘The question is whether we’re seeing déjà vu all over again.’
Ror those of us who don’t know any French, or what ‘déjà vu’ means in English, a translation of the above sentence follows…
‘The question is whether we’re seeing the same thing all over again, all over again.’
Mr Bush’s actions, words, and conduct over his term in office is proof of my prior posting.
google has desktop search on mac too, but I use spotlight, and i wouldnt bother with google just because its not spotlight and spotlight actually works great for me, however. can you even shut spotlight off?
This is the list of criminals Clinton pardoned just before leaving office.
Just imagine you are one of these victims of these criminals how would you feel?
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pardonchartlst.htm
Just goes to show, every politician is as corrupt as Microsoft.
Never trust a politican and NEVER trust Microsoft.
this is a typical case of US politics protecting US companies because they ARE use companys.
If Microsoft was a European or any other country company I guarantee the US politicans would have gone ahead with breaking up Microsoft.
Such is power… the more people have the less they are prepared to let go or lose it.
Microsoft did the exact same tactics years ago with netscape.
And we all know the result of that.
Netscape had dominant market share of the web browser market.
Microsoft added IE to it’s OS and Netscapes share fell through the floor because they put code in the OS which almost crippled Netscape’s browser.
Exactly the same as what they are currently doing with google search.
Microsoft are all gangsters with the business morals of a whore.
Once the fat elephants leave, watch MS drown in its stinking sh1t.
If Gore runs in ’08, how scared would Microsoft be?
MDN Word: pressure as in “Let’s pressure Gore to run”
I don’t think so. Your rant is off topic, out of order, and puerile.
I don’t know if Google has a case here, but anything that’s good for Microsoft is bad for the world. And the friends of my enemies are not my friends. MDN MW: “Fall” off a chair.
Anyone read John Gruber of Daring Fireball? Looks like the leopard is about to change its spots. If that ain’t a hint, I don’t know what is. It’s one way you might reveal sensitive information without revealing it, if you know what I mean.
‘The question is whether we’re seeing déjà vu all over again.’
Roman: That’s just a reworking of a famous quote by Yogi Berra:
This is like déjà vu all over again.
http://www.rinkworks.com/said/yogiberra.shtml
Here’s another site for you:
http://www.ehow.com/buy_0_sense-humor.html
Evil Clintons…
I suppose that we’re both Evil Bush supporters if I state the following?
For EIGHT YEARS, CLINTON DID NOTHING with Microsoft, and only the LAWYERS involved PROFITED.
We’re living in dangerous times, when hatred rules the political landscape, and memories fade as quickly as they seemingly do.
HILLARY ALREADY DID 8 YEARS AND AL GORE IS A ALARMIST MORON, “Greenland is going to MELT, MELT I SAY!!
Yea after a few thousand years, the earth is going through a normal warming cycle that’s been going on for billions of years.
Al Gore “We must stop global warming, but I need my 3 – 30″ monitors and a TV on all the time! hahaha!”
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I turned GWB on to the Mac a while back. He just loves it.
Times…they are a changin’.
The article connects the Federal Appeals Court with the Bush administration. A completely false impression is given…. Bad journalism.
If this isn’t the most transparent click-bait article in the history of the web, I’d be surprised.
And the bozos who own this site have the gall to talk about Dvorak.
ByeTakeCare says:
“….When the Bush admin took over in 2000, the economy was in a very shaky position”.
Yup. That “shaky” surplus.
Soon, Hillary & Bill will be back in office, though.
Now, to the person who is posting juvenile rants under different names- man up.
Have some guts.
Like John Kerry, when he tracked down an enemy and killed him so as not to compromise thier position (this is while he was serving our country in Vietnam);
and NOT like chicken-shits Bush (pot-smoking coke-snorting cheerleader @ Yale, whose Daddy placed him in front of the line to get into the texas air national guard, so as not to have to actually fight)- or Dick “I had other priorities then” Cheney (yea, like not getting his chicken-shit ass shot off).
Any questions? Glad I could bring my usual enlightenment to this board.
I guess MS$ must be “with ’em” and not “agin’ ’em.”
What a travesty this Bush administration has become!
This is BS. I doubt you can shut off Apple’s Spotlight feature too.
Apple is perfectly capable of competing with M$ now that they have a competent CEO again, to the benefit of consumers. The same goes for Google. The federal government can only make matters worse in these types of cases.
“This is BS. I doubt you can shut off Apple’s Spotlight feature too.”
Apple isn’t a predatory and abusive monopoly. Your point is moot.
Monopolies must adhere to different laws to prevent them from harming competitors. It comes with the territory. Microsoft has repeatedly ignored the laws. That’s where they truly innovate.
M$ must be pouring money into the republican party somewhere along the way… The bush administration has always been about money. The team that backed Bush put Cheney in as VP. He runs the money side of things, ensuring that the backers get lucrative contracts, subsidies etc. Cronies in various positions do the same – how much money does the world bank spend every year, and who gets the contracts? Iraq was a mistake in some ways, but it made a lot of people a lot of money… Bush as figurehead, Cheney as CEO – a truly democratic enterprise.
Now you know why they kept up the support for Wolfowitz. Gonzales, another crony, keeps the bush supporters out of trouble and harrasses the democrats – thats what the firing of the prosecutors was all about. Of course they got a junior staffmember to do the dirty work – it has to be deniable after all…
I think Bush is just helping Apple (not intentionally, I think). If people can’t use programs they want with Windows, they may consider other alternatives (OS X…). I think it’s great; it may give more reason than ever to try Mac.
When the Bush admin took over in 2000, the economy was in a very shaky position.
The Bush Administration went into office on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2001.
That said, a president’s worth is not seen until after they’ve left office; the first few years are all about dealing with their predecessor’s legacy.
The bush administration has always been about money. The team that backed Bush put Cheney in as VP. He runs the money side of things, ensuring that the backers get lucrative contracts, subsidies etc. Cronies in various positions do the same – how much money does the world bank spend every year, and who gets the contracts? Iraq was a mistake in some ways, but it made a lot of people a lot of money… Bush as figurehead, Cheney as CEO – a truly democratic enterprise.
Do you have firsthand information, or are you just regurgitating “facts” others have spoon-fed you?
Between the propaganda on the airwaves and the crackpots on the Net, what can a person believe as truth anymore?
M$ must be pouring money into the republican party somewhere along the way
When all else fails, blame a conspiracy.
It’s been said that Microsoft is a law firm that happens to write software…
Interesting. MS has always been that way. What else could explain the EULA?
Gates and his little nerd hobby company would’ve been absolutely nothing, if it weren’t for his well-off lawyer parents backing it & landing an exclusive OS contract with IBM.
As always, the rich get richer.
You have to remember: when the DOJ in the Clinton adminiatration went after Microsoft, who at the time was making billions, but Microsoft wasn’t donating ANY MONEY to politicians. The politicians wanted their share. And the DOJ was the penalty – monopoly lawsuit.
Now. Microsoft has their PACS. Their lobbyists. Microsot is paying the tariff. Do a Google search. Microsoft given millions away now to the pols.
Companies have to pay the piper. It doesn’t get more corrupt than the US Congress.
listen, i do not have any pollitical affiliation with any US party. but i have to say looking at the situation from an outsiders perspcetive, it seems as if your current government is coming dangerously close to blatant facism.
i love apple and that is why i read this site, so it disturbs me to have so many hard line viewpoints in the forums.
here in the UK we have a PM who is outgoing acknowloging that he made a massive mistake by trusting GW Bush, and aligning himself with him. all i have to say is that we should keep this forum to apple, and not try to inject anyones uneducated views on any subject.
GROW UP AND LOOK AT ALL THE FACTS BEFORE MAKING AN INFORMED DECISION. ANYONE WHO MAKES UP THEIR MIND ON AN ISSUE BEFORE LOOKING AT ALL PERTINENT INFORMATION AND CANNOT ADJUST THEIR VIEW OVER TIME HAS AN IQ OF 20.
CHEERS
lower taxes = smaller governent = less regulation (de-regulation) or lack of regulating authority or authorities = A LICENSE TO STEAL
Where in the world do you people think all these regulations came from anyway? . . . They came from years of Robber Barons bleeding the American public’s wallets!
Get your heads out of your . . . . .! For the most part, Big Business is not your friend.
Did anyone expect more than token support of the consumer point of view from bush and company?
I didn’t!
I trust many more Americans will think of this example and others when judging the republican party and it’s many enablers in November of 2008…
I for one have had enough of bush and all of those right wing enables…
At least the US has Ron Paul, England is f*cked.
I’ve said this before but search ‘Preston Gates Ellis’, why not throw in Abramoff for good measure (that Gates is Bill’s dad).
Add up the extra profits for the oil and military industrial complexes since 2003 and subtract the cost of the wars, not only do they show a profit but it’s money diverted from taxpayers to bankers, executives and shareholders (some tautology there) who have all had nice big tax cuts in to the bargain. Bush, Rice, Cheney are all from which industry? Who got an oil tanker named after her? Who did the puppet president of Afghanistan used to work for? The ruskies capped the Afghan oil wells before they left, what you didn’t know there is oil in Afghanistan? it’s not just about the trans-Afghan pipeline. Mission accomplished, keep the oil in the ground, higher prices and profits for Big Oil, less oil for China, India et al, Cheney’s stock options keep on going up.
When the government and industry is in the same hands what (political) system does that equal? Totalitarianism, funny thing it can start with either an ‘F’ or a ‘C’, they’re both the same really!
Both sides are just as bad, what to do? Vote the incumbents out is probably a good start, certainly vote for independents if possible. But there’s a problem there too, it’s not who votes that count it is who counts the votes that counts!
We all know this is Bill Clinton’s fault. Not our beloved Commander in Thief.
He has free time and the money to run an election, match made in heaven!
(hey with all the above comments, why not?)
MDN magic word = anyone
(how do these guys manage to do that?)
WE NEED RUDY FOR PRESIDENT!!!
If it ends up being a choice between Rudy and Hillary, I’m staying home.
Or maybe I’ll write in Ted Kennedy. It’d be good humor if he did win.
GROW UP AND LOOK AT ALL THE FACTS BEFORE MAKING AN INFORMED DECISION.<.i>
There’s one little problem: what ARE the facts?
Anyone who doesn’t have first-hand knowledge, and trusts “being informed” to mouthpieces (bloggers, writers, talking heads, etc), is a brainwashed drone.
Remember “1984”? The Information Purification Directives? Is the guy on the screen <i>really telling us the truth?
Who’d be worthy to throw the hammer today?
Perhaps Google will release their own OS?
Free? With Google Office? Free?
No need, it’s already done (just not by Google). Heard of Linux, friend?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
http://www.linux.org/
Heard of Linux, friend?
LINUX, HAHAHA!!
Oh jesus I needed a laugh,
shit, now I got to clean off my keyboard and screen…
Call me when Linux is ready for the desktop, hehehe and don’t give me that Utumba or whatever it’s called.
I need a OS that works, not me working for it, looking all over the net for pieces of it like somebody shattered the bloddy thing all over the place.
When it’s ready for the desktop and ready for me to use it right after installation, I’ll be glad to burn several thousand cd’s and pass them around.
Until then I got money and better things to do with my time than slaving for a computer.
Windows and Linux, still don’t understand the Mac market after all these years.
Thanks for the laugh though…
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Greenland IS melting. That’s just a fact.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=15341
You must not be a New Yorker. As for global warming, you need to get up to speed – even “W” now acknowledges it. And NO, it is NOT a normal cycle.
As Robin Williams says, “Politicians are like diapers: they need to be changed often – and for the same reason”
http://gb.bbs.ws/book.php?book=djobsblog
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I think the world is finally in a place where it is very possible to continue relentlessly beating MS down, little by little, over and over again, until the market is much less dominated, and maybe even no longer dominated by MS at all – eventually. I would agree with those who believe that Google and Apple just need to keep coming at MS with all they’ve got – individually and together – and others need to join in as allies or independently.
In the end it’s just business and those that can get away with practicing it unfairly will do so, that will never change, but win or lose, fair-and-square or not, no one business can remain at the top indefinitely. I would argue that many of the “strategies” we see MS employing lately are obvious signs of recognized vulnerabilities on thier part.
Let’s just keep at it, whether you recommend or whether you make final decisions, always look for viable alternatives to any MS or MS-dependent products. Public perception of MS is changing and developers and consumers alike need to take full and continuing advantage of it.
This pile of reeking smouldering pile of hatred from the most intolerant people on the Earth (liberals) has been brought to you by the folks here at the Mindless Demoncrat Network. Slow news day, huh MDN? You worked the people on this site as well as Dvorak, and the screaming response was totally predictable. That’s how you get the hits.
“This pile of reeking smouldering(sic) pile of hatred from the most intolerant people on the Earth (liberals)…”
Psychiatrists call this projection.