Originally posted by: Nothinman
And you're the one person who decides what's too much money or not? Don't be so arrogant as to try to force your beliefs on others because you are no one to do so. As for licensing other OSes... Linux is free, got anything else to add? And no we don't need enterprise software for our home.
No, the owner of the software is and MS has decided on the price of
their software. Linux is free, but you've already given reasons why you can't use it so how is that relevant? If you're limiting yourself to Windows you're stuck paying for Windows it's as simple as that. If you want to spend the time converting to another OS you're free to do that as well. The only thing I can see that MS should do, is offer a 'family pack' of like 3 licenses like Apple does.
You think? Why don't you check your facts before you post. The stuff you just wrote is pure garbage. Because of competition? What competition? And bad press? You must be joking. If you create a product and charge everyone in the world to pay you, you better be able to back up that product. And what are you sayinga bout .Net? You made half a statement then just stopped.....
Competition in the server market and there has been lots of bad press about past IE, IIS, RPC, etc exploits that had to have some impact on MS' decision to focus more on security. And my statement didn't stop early, I just didn't feel like explaining how converting things like IE and WMP to .Net will make them harder to exploit.
Um.. The Windows source code is theirs and no one elses, so YES then can open up the source code and let other developers work on Window related fixes, for FREE! But MS chooses not to for whatever convoluted excuse they choose to dream up.
Um, no it's not. Hit Help->About in IE and you'll see that it's based on Mosaic and distributed with parts licensed from Spyglass, RSA, Independent JPEG group and Intel. And that's just IE.
So you're saying if I don't like Windows I should get a Mac? Why in the world do I need to buy an Apple when I choose to build a PC for myself? Where is the logic in that?
A Mac is a
Personal
Computer. If you don't want to run Windows and you don't want to learn Linux, OS X is the next logical choice.
You think so? Look at what is happening with Blue-Ray vs. HD-DVD. Microsoft supports HD-DVD while the majority of manufacturers support Blue-Ray(which they believe is the better technology) but because of Microsoft's cloute in the PC market, they can offer incetives to OEMs who live off a razor thin margine of 3% or less and cooerce them to use HD-DVD player in the systems rather than Blue-Ray. HP which in on the Blue-Ray board has already switched over to HD-DVD for unspecified reason, but you can't doubt Microsofts hand in the move.
I don't see how that means that Microsoft "owns" me. They definitely have influence on upcomming technologies, but so do many other corporations.
So in you logic anyone who posts a new thread is a troll?
No, just anyone who starts an intentionally inflammatory thread with no intention of following any of the advice posted in that thead.