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I have never liked Apples. And, back in the day, Apple was the most non-innovative POS company one could imagine. It took a kick in the rear from MS and others to get it going at all. As for all the problems with MS, I switched to Mozilla and a good firewall, and now no problems at all. It's IE, not MS generally, that is the problem.
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12-31-2005, 05:16 PM | #12 |
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As soon as another OS comes along that is as easy to use as windows and is compatible with everything windows is, i will be the first to convert. Microsoft's dominance ensures that this will never happen. Is this unfair, or is it an inevitable consequence of such big business? Should the EU hence impose fines? IMHO, yes. Microsoft is too dominant, and that is not good for competitors or consumers. It is only good for Microsoft. Microsoft should be forcibly crippled/split up, for the general good. Until it is though, I'll be using the best and most convenient product I can. Alternatives are too much of a pain in the arse for me to take the moral high ground.
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Timber: Apple might have been non-innovative (and, indeed, still is - basically all of their products can be traced back to the Free Software communities at some level), but MS hasn't ever been any better. MS copied the GUI from Apple, who copied it from others. And it *is* MS general who is the problem - Outlook and Outlook Express have as many holes as IE (*and* lack features compared to the competition - neither of them can thread emails, and nor do they set the headers that allow it), and Windows is such a monolithic system that it's impossible to avoid the problem apps (IE *is* Windows Explorer, and it provides your task bar and start menu). Switch to the competition, you don't even need a 'good firewall' - you may need to filter inbound traffic, but never outbound. A firewall like the Windows XP one would be ample, and alot of people use routers instead. This also stops any virus attempts clean in the tracks (not that they'd have much luck, anyway). Have you ever tried to deal with the Windows registry? And don't get me started on the memory management... the competition is, in general, Better. |
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01-04-2006, 11:01 AM | #15 |
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I don't know how you can make a company open its source code to begin with. I bet they don't make coca-cola divulge its secret formula.
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01-04-2006, 12:33 PM | #16 |
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Or KFC's secret blend of 11 herbs and spices
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01-04-2006, 02:13 PM | #17 |
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But slightly different - the code they're being asked to divulge is simply that which would allow other programmes to interact effectively with it.
They're not being asked to divulge the code behind the unique features that windows offers (and we could ask if there are any such features that need protected by a 'secret formula') simply the code whose obscurity allows anti-competitive behaviour to continue by making competing products appear broken if they fail to interact correctly with Windows. Also worth bearing in mind that "unprecedented access" doesn't necessarily equate to 'enough access'. [ 01-04-2006, 02:17 PM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ] |
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