Well, Windows is back on the disk.

[Sasha Tsykin]

Billy Verreynne (JW) wrote:

>Sasha Tsykin wrote:
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>>>Do you believe that a free market, world wide, would permit MS or
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>any
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>>>other company to enjoy a multi-billion USD monthly sales volume
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>without
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>>>it providing products that people desire to have?
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>>Thankyou for somebody finally stating what should have been
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>blindingly
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>>bvious. I would suggest that those who claim that MS Windows has no
>>positive points should deeply think on the previous statement before
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>>into another rant.
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>It is not that simple. And is why Microsoft has landed numerous time
>in court because of their business and marketing practices.
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>Yes, Windows does deliver. (have a look at the top500 super computer
>clusters for those who doubt)
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>However.. the method in which Microsoft achieved their complete
>dominance in the market is what rubs a lot of people (including me)
>the wrong way.
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>But instead of taking in -Microsoft- they incorrectly attack the
>operating system (which do have it flaws like -any- other) and not the
>"morality" (a loaded word in the business and capitalistic
>sense) of how Microsoft does their business.
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>I get so sick and tired of the pettiness of some calling Windows
>"Winblows" or "Windoze" or whatever. Windows itself -is- a capable
>o/s. Fact. (and I have written a -lot- of code of the last 10+ years
>for Windows, have seen and supported mission critical corporate
>systems running on it, etc)
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>Also a fact that I personally prefer Linux for various technical
>reasons over Windows as a server platform. But I do enjoy Windows as
>an -excellent- games platform at home.
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>Billy
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I agree with this entirely. And if anybody wants to knock the "morality" 
of Microsofts actions, then so be it, but windows is not bad even if 
Microsoft is (sometimes). Incidentally, OS/2 is well known as a good 
operating system, and is based on the same code as windows. Food for 
thought.

Sasha