Post #75,358
1/18/03 6:48:28 AM
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As much as I dislike aspects of Badman Bill, he is
spot on here ...
[link|http://www.quicken.com/investments/news/story/?story=NewsStory/dowJones/20030118/ON200301180001000002.var&p=MSFT|Bill Gates on the future]
This is one of the few times I agree in general with what Bill is saying - he does understand what is taking place in US and the world & that we are about to enter an new business golden era (but Bushites will make bloody sure that Dems don't benefit from the groundwork they put dwn this time, like they did after Gulf-1).
Sounds strange ??? - maybe, but am saying it is the facts.
Cheers
Doug Marker
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Post #75,469
1/18/03 10:44:11 PM
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When the price of Windows halves every 2 years,...
I'll believe him. Until then, I'll think it's self-serving BS.
Alex
"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."\t-- Mark Twain
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Post #75,470
1/18/03 10:49:51 PM
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much like the mafia, his system appears to work
our bill does understand the value of a dollar and how to go about extracting it.
thanx,
bill
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Post #75,581
1/19/03 8:03:23 PM
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I still say
they should make a "Core" version of Windows and sell it for $69 that doesn't have IE, or that other stuff built in, Just the pure OS, without the Online Gee-Gaws, Media Player, IE, Active Desktop, etc. Maybe call it Windows 2003 Lite or something?
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Post #75,586
1/19/03 8:30:12 PM
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Not one chance in hell
Microsoft's Windows objective is, and has always been, to build everyone else's product in and integrate it all tightly together, no matter how bloated that makes Windows. This strategy is to force all other software vendors out of the Windows market (which they expected to be the only market by now).
Once all others were gone, they could charge anything they wanted under any terms they want (and they want Software as a Service, leased by the month/year so they have your data as well as your software, and don't have to bother with all these stinking upgades. Pay year after year for the same damned crap and for access to your own business data because you have no choice).
Bill Gates (a couple months ago): "I believe in the long run that is the way it will be architected".
It's too bad Linux screwed their pooch, but, hey, that's the breaks. The level of extortion they can achieve is now limited, though still quite high enough to be painful, and to drag down the technology industry and the general economy.
The unagreeable States tried to force your "core version", but Microsoft's puppets in the Bush/Ashcroft oligarchy read their scripts well and refused to let it happen.
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Post #75,498
1/19/03 10:29:12 AM
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Interesting from 2 directions
1) I've been trying to convince friends and family that better times are close, in spite of the Republicans, who I expect will receive a just retribution and will slink back into their pits for the next 50 or so years
2) I was thinking about Bill and his success yesterday while building a W2K server. I once *hated* Windows primarily because it was bloated - to me, bloat meant that the development target was out of control. Well, Bill was right about bloatware - that hardware improvements would erase most of the bad effects of bloat. I really did not forsee how good hardware would become back in say 1996, my most strident anti-MS days. And, believe it or not, whoever runs Windows development seems to be hearing criticism - much more attention to standards and stability.
So, MS begins to seem like US Steel to me - a once very bad guy who is morphing into a typically slow-witted business leviathan, but one without explicit malice.
-drl
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Post #75,513
1/19/03 12:25:46 PM
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Microsoft absent explicit malice?
You've got to be joking. Unless the quest for ownership of all means of communication (as well as content control) is not in and of itself "explicit malice". They want no less I can assure you. And if we don't keep our guard up, that is precisely what they will get. Remember your Illych: "Own the press [today "means of communcation"] and you own the People."
I'd say that is pretty clearly "explicit malice".
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Post #75,524
1/19/03 2:29:47 PM
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Microsoft has not changed.
Sure, they've improved their stability. But only because they'd be losing marketshare even faster to Linux if they didn't.
They still have bloated, insecure, unstable code.
They still want to OWN everything.
They STILL leverage their desktop monopoly.
Shall I continue?
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Post #75,570
1/19/03 6:52:30 PM
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Have you forgotten..
Billy's Quest (#113?) to *own* the digital rights to every reproduction of the great art of the world? Bettmann Archives purchase ring any bells?
A man who believes that he Should buy and enforce \ufffd on such material (let alone a man who Can do so) - What Is He?
(And being autistic, what would be his umm 'motivation mechanism' to change any previous conceptions re Me/Everyone Else? His wife's dabbling in 'Foundations' [tax] [tax] ain't got nada to do with Billy's Conscience!?)
Nahhh, in Andy's immortal words,
Microsoft is a true reflection of Bill Gates' personality - the sleaziest, most unethical, ugliest little rat's ass the world has seen unto this time. -- Andrew Grygus
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Post #75,993
1/21/03 5:44:21 PM
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Ross, Who you crappin'?!?
Absent explicit malice?
These are the same people who, with proven explicit malice aforethought systematically knifed the baby, cut of the air supply, and stole other's IP in the unabashed, singelminded attempt to control allthings computational everywhere in the world.
And that to you is "absent explicit malice"? Puh-LEEEEZE!!!
(I'll just have to chalk this up to a temporary lapse...we euphemistically refer to these nowadays as "Senior Moments". Take your pill, now Ross; you'll feel better very soon....)
jb4
"They lead. They don't manage. The carrot always wins over the stick. Ask your horse. You can lead your horse to water, but you can't manage him to drink."
Richard Kerr, United Technologies Corporation, 1990
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Post #76,003
1/21/03 7:05:35 PM
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On second thought, nice trolling Ross.
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