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Corrections Thread
Authored by: artp on Saturday, January 26 2013 @ 06:27 PM EST
"Eror" -> "Error" in Title Block, please.

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Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
sinks ?

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Off Topic Thread
Authored by: artp on Saturday, January 26 2013 @ 06:29 PM EST
Diverge.

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Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
sinks ?

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News Picks Thread
Authored by: artp on Saturday, January 26 2013 @ 06:31 PM EST
URL, please.


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Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
sinks ?

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Comes Goes Here
Authored by: artp on Saturday, January 26 2013 @ 06:32 PM EST
See link above for "Comes v. MS"


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Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
sinks ?

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Not buying Microsoft
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 26 2013 @ 06:50 PM EST

Which is why I'll never buy a Microsoft phone or anything Microsoft. I don't want to reward a business that thinks that's a winning argument, and I surely don't want Microsoft to extend its desktop monopoly into the mobile space, because if they think it's OK to be awful to its competitors, they'll surely keep on doing it, carefully following legal advice on how to stay 1/8th inch inside the law (if this is inside the law).


Agreed.

Curiously I met a Microsoft Fanboi when I went to switch cell phone companies (my phone is unlocked). Shocked me silly.

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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Microsoft changed the gauge of the railroad
Authored by: kawabago on Saturday, January 26 2013 @ 07:03 PM EST
after competitors started building trains.

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Word about competition
Authored by: Ian Al on Sunday, January 27 2013 @ 01:44 AM EST
Just for anyone who missed Series 1, the Word v. WordPerfect anti-competitive
activity case happened earlier.

This one was about WordPerfect as middleware that could provide an OS-like
platform in its own right and could, and did, transfer to operating systems
other than Windows.

As, I think, Bill Gates put it, Microsoft Office needed to form a moat around
the Windows 95 operating system to protect it from middleware such as
WordPerfect. If it was not Bill Gates, himself, I am just 1/8" away from
the truth.

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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid!

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Microsoft has made anti-competitive behaviour an art form!
Authored by: TiddlyPom on Sunday, January 27 2013 @ 07:35 AM EST
The worst thing they have done (IMHO) is to FORCE the bundling of Windows on users. Having got into the position that users are FORCED to buy Windows (whether they want to or not), Microsoft then try and lock out the competition (essentially Linux) by using UEFI to pr event users making use of competitive operating systems.

What many people forget is that PCs are not "Windows PCs". They are generic personal computers which SHOULD be able to run any operating system that you choose.

To me this is the HEART of the problem - and Microsoft's actions against Novell (although despicable) fade into cosmic insignificance against this!

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Support Software Freedom - use GPL licenced software like Linux and LibreOffice instead of proprietary software like Microsoft Windows/Office or Apple OS/X

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Bring Motz back to Utah!
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 27 2013 @ 01:55 PM EST
We've had the worst air quality in the nation for January and everyone has the
norovirus.

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