Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 25, 2003 11:09 AM
Smell the coffee.
M$ Winblows and Office sales have run into a brick wall. China and India are working to staunch the flow of their money to a giant blood-sucking US corporation, and the rest of the world isn't far behind. That's why M$ is busy looking for new ways to ream users in the US by forcing them to buy intrinsically valueless upgrades.
They've also pretty much pissed in the well here in the US - fewer competive ideas are reaching market because so many know M$ will kill off anything remotely threatening. The vitality and creativity native to the US is being strangled.
Expect the rest of the world to catch up to the US in software technology (and they won't be contributing to M$'s code pile) before enough people wake up from our M$-induced coma to do anything about it. Only count on item #3 for a few more years.
Re item #4, events of the past couple of weeks have placed Linux well ahead of ALL versions of Windows as far as security goes.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 25, 2003 11:09 AMM$ Winblows and Office sales have run into a brick wall. China and India are working to staunch the flow of their money to a giant blood-sucking US corporation, and the rest of the world isn't far behind. That's why M$ is busy looking for new ways to ream users in the US by forcing them to buy intrinsically valueless upgrades.
They've also pretty much pissed in the well here in the US - fewer competive ideas are reaching market because so many know M$ will kill off anything remotely threatening. The vitality and creativity native to the US is being strangled.
Expect the rest of the world to catch up to the US in software technology (and they won't be contributing to M$'s code pile) before enough people wake up from our M$-induced coma to do anything about it. Only count on item #3 for a few more years.
Re item #4, events of the past couple of weeks have placed Linux well ahead of ALL versions of Windows as far as security goes.
Sorry to wake you up.
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