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Microsoft = Two Faced Bastards
In recent News, It has been reported that, due to Vista's new built in DRM (Digital Rights Management), Your average everyday company will go broke just trying to purchase and license the rights to STANDARD business software and Media.
They did finally release some of their source to Symantec and McAfee, so that they could better protect against new viruses. Mainly because no one in their right mind would trust Microsoft to do the job themselves. Goody for Symantec and McAfee, but what about all the other anti-virus providers?
You may recall a few months ago that Microsoft promised to work hand in hand with novell, to provide support for MS Office document architecture and Virtualization solutions, In SUSE Linux.
So NOW it seems Microsoft is back at their old tricks. Trying to dominate the world by making their software the only one you can use. The list of the companies indicting Microsoft includes some serious heavy hitters. IBM, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Oracle, Red Hat, Corel, RealNetworks, Linspire and Opera to name a few.
Among other things, Their 'open xml' document format, for MS Office documents is designed to run seamlessly only on MS Office products. That makes me really mad. This is following on the heels of them agreeing to release those formats to end the document incompatibilty that has plagued inter-office systems since.. well since Microsoft introduced MS Office for Windows for Workgroups 3.1. There are kids who can drive now that can't remember that far back.
They are also accused of creating their own (Microsoft only, of course) markup language to replace the internet standard, html. It's not bad enough that they have refused for years to make Internet Explorer totally www compliant, NOW they are going to be muscling businesses into writing their websites in Microsoft code, so you won't be able to browse those websites without using an Internet Explorer based web browser.
When will the madness end? It will serve them right if the global hacker communtiy hacks Vista to pieces, and infects it with undetectable root kits. I certainly don't plan to buy a copy of it EVER. Of course I'm sure I will need to, at some point some business client of mine will buy a computer with Vista on it. That's ok though, I'll just refuse to provide support until the client buys me a machine with Vista pre-installed on it. ..then locks the machine in a closet far, far away from any of my machines. ;)
At any rate, they've added yet more layers to the Vista operating System, so it will by nature run slower than XP by levels, and suck up more computing power. You know, Bill Gates left IBM to make his own company because they wanted him to make an Operating System that would only run on new computers. I think IBM would have a valid case to sue Bill for ownership of Windows. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black, yeesh.
End the madness, Use your Windows CD as a coffee cup coaster, and download Linux. I'm sure you all know I prefer Novells' SUSE Linux, but there are other flavors out there to pick from. Just be sure to warn your friends NOT to buy Vista, It's going to be a worse fiasco than Windows ME. ..and it may be illegal in the European Union anyway, the way things are going.
Rivals Attack Vista as Illegal Under EU Rules External Link
They did finally release some of their source to Symantec and McAfee, so that they could better protect against new viruses. Mainly because no one in their right mind would trust Microsoft to do the job themselves. Goody for Symantec and McAfee, but what about all the other anti-virus providers?
You may recall a few months ago that Microsoft promised to work hand in hand with novell, to provide support for MS Office document architecture and Virtualization solutions, In SUSE Linux.
So NOW it seems Microsoft is back at their old tricks. Trying to dominate the world by making their software the only one you can use. The list of the companies indicting Microsoft includes some serious heavy hitters. IBM, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Oracle, Red Hat, Corel, RealNetworks, Linspire and Opera to name a few.
Among other things, Their 'open xml' document format, for MS Office documents is designed to run seamlessly only on MS Office products. That makes me really mad. This is following on the heels of them agreeing to release those formats to end the document incompatibilty that has plagued inter-office systems since.. well since Microsoft introduced MS Office for Windows for Workgroups 3.1. There are kids who can drive now that can't remember that far back.
They are also accused of creating their own (Microsoft only, of course) markup language to replace the internet standard, html. It's not bad enough that they have refused for years to make Internet Explorer totally www compliant, NOW they are going to be muscling businesses into writing their websites in Microsoft code, so you won't be able to browse those websites without using an Internet Explorer based web browser.
When will the madness end? It will serve them right if the global hacker communtiy hacks Vista to pieces, and infects it with undetectable root kits. I certainly don't plan to buy a copy of it EVER. Of course I'm sure I will need to, at some point some business client of mine will buy a computer with Vista on it. That's ok though, I'll just refuse to provide support until the client buys me a machine with Vista pre-installed on it. ..then locks the machine in a closet far, far away from any of my machines. ;)
At any rate, they've added yet more layers to the Vista operating System, so it will by nature run slower than XP by levels, and suck up more computing power. You know, Bill Gates left IBM to make his own company because they wanted him to make an Operating System that would only run on new computers. I think IBM would have a valid case to sue Bill for ownership of Windows. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black, yeesh.
End the madness, Use your Windows CD as a coffee cup coaster, and download Linux. I'm sure you all know I prefer Novells' SUSE Linux, but there are other flavors out there to pick from. Just be sure to warn your friends NOT to buy Vista, It's going to be a worse fiasco than Windows ME. ..and it may be illegal in the European Union anyway, the way things are going.
Rivals Attack Vista as Illegal Under EU Rules External Link
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