Are you forced to buy windows in order to solve certain tasks on the internet e.g. like certain banktasks and to update garmin gps maps and other

[David Fletcher]

On Mon, 2014-08-04 at 10:45 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> I believe Silverlight is M$'s 'flash' replacement, except that, unlike 
> Macromedia / Adobe, M$ is not providing players for ALL O/Ss (eg Linux).

The usual style of attack - purposely make yourself incompatible with
everybody else assuming that you're a big enough bully to force
everybody to buy in.

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Lisa Simpson:- "They must have programmed it to eliminate the
competition."
Bart Simpson:- "You mean like Microsoft?"