Re: MICROSOFT FINE - HALF A BILLION DOLLARS!!!!!!!!!!

On Sep 17, 10:09 pm, "What Me Worry?" <__@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Sep 17, 1:41 pm, Vandar <vanda...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
CitizenJimseracwrote:
On Sep 17, 8:40 am, nobody <nob...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

CitizenJimseracwrote:

Its legal tricks, delaying tactics, search for loopholes in the law,
evasions, tricks, long winded counterclaims and protestations
of innocence exhausted, THE EUROPEAN UNION HAS CONFIRMED
THAT MICROSOFT MUST PAY OVER A HALF BILLION DOLLARS
($600+ million dollars) in fines for its monopolistic and
other practices and has overruled any more stalling tactics from
Microsoft.

This fine was not enough. It will not stop their behavior. Wait and
see.

BUT THE ONSET OF LINUX WILL! Wait and see!!!

Yeah... 1% market share with a bullet!

Linux will soon pass Windows 98 for market share.
Linux is going nowhere.

Actually the open source stuff will eventually take over.

Last time I checked, ASP.NET had moved to 2nd place, with open source PHP
taking the lead as the most popular Web scripting language. IBM's Eclipse
dev platform is attracting all kinds of attention from every direction, and
rapidly becoming the universal development platform.

The US
military is already experimenting with it. With more and more apps
being cloned for Linux it's only a matter of time before the major
developers will have to compete by making it available on Linux.

Microsoft has something to worry about. Google's recent porting of key apps
like Google Earth and Picasa to Linux was the first shot across the bow.

Bill Gates said that he "bet the company on Vista." Well, sorry Bill: Vista
is the answer to a question that nobody was asking. Lumbering, grotesquely
obese Vista makes XP look like an Olympic gymnast - quick, agile and
reliable. As if that wasn't enough, now we're hearing reports that Vista is
*deliberately* downgrading digital media streams. Vista is "broken by
design." This "feature" of Vista was actually revealed before the official
launch; and consumer response is predictable (they hate it). Since I value
the freedom to play digital streams with any codec I want - without worry
about deliberate sabotage (!!), I won't be switching to Vista. I won't let
any of my friends or family use it, either.

Well said and well done!

Microsoft is NOT prepared for the consumer to TALK BACK
to them.

As for Vista, that prematurely released piece of crap has rightly
been REJECTED by the vast majority of businesses and home
users that used to form the core of Microsoft users.

From here on it EASY to predict the course Microsoft will take -
with their huge cash reserves (even after paying the 600 million
euro fine) they will coast along as all such dinosaur companies
do, like IBM in the late 70's to late 80's as newer and better
technologies, LIKE LINUX, supersede and surpass them.

Some people will want to retain the old ways, blessed by the
magic Microsoft name and too fearful to try something that
might be better, provide dramatic IT cost savings and
just maybe make their companies more competitive.
Fine. Then those kinds of companies will be BEATEN
by those that can, will and do change away from Microsoft's
stale and proprietary ridden paths.

Citizen Jimserac
(Former C++/C Windows Application Software Developer)

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