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WinXP and the US Gov.

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Alphacowboy

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So is the US government really going to try and stop the distribution of Windows XP? I think that is rediculas if it is true! I currently am running RC2 and am very happy with it... except the green Start button... I hope they will make it so you can change the color. But anyway, I wonder what ever happened to free enterprize? Got any ideas? 🙂
 
Thats why my user name is "user" My name is "User User" and my email is a junk box on hotmail.com
 
LOL!🙂 Someone is going to attempt to delay every MS offering from now on just as they did 2K & ME!😉

If you're afraid of activation.......Don't buy it!
If you like 2K or 9X better........Don't upgrade!

Pretty simple actually!😉
 
Win98SE - nice for games... stability, I think not
Win2K - ok for games... stable as hell

WinXP - so far... better than Win2k on games, more stable than Win98SE...

I think its worth the upgrade.


I want to know why the hell the Gov. has to be so anal with MS
 
I can understand the feelings of people's software getting outdone or being made obsolete by microsoft including it in their OS, but I mean, what are we expecting microsoft to do anyway? Perhaps we should do away with the MS calculator too, huh? 🙂

The idea that the OS shouldn't come with a browser is beyond ridiculous.
I
think microsoft should do more to make other people's software work better with their OS, so that when they put their own little program in there, whatever it does, make it easy for other people to have their own little program that does "X" that can be stuck in there... (Don't know how easy that would be)
 
Thats why my user name is "user" My name is "User User" and my email is a junk box on hotmail.com

Lool! MS knows who you are anyway then since you logged into their e-mail service at least once (unless you used a proxy or a dynamic IP address via their arch-nemesis AOL).

I bet Bill is watching you right now through a pinhole spy camera secreted in your monitor. 😛
 
If someone wants to find out about me or anyone, I dought they are going to look at Microsoft anyway, if they want my info they can have it, I could care less.... the DMV down the street has all my info... people could steal your mail and find out about you as much as they can find pretty much anywhere else.

But as far as the OS, its a great OS and the more things that are built in, the better if you ask me because they were built to work together so you know they should work. Plus less $hit for me to buy. I just hope they will sell user licenses so I dont have to buy a copy for each of my 10 PC's.... I really do not want to buy 10 copies!!!
 
There's nothing illegal about a company holding a monopoly. There's plenty illegal with a company abusing a monopoly -- dumping product below cost to get a competitor out of a market, only to be able to jack up the prices, for instance.

Should the government not have stepped in against AT&T? Look how far long distance prices have fallen since the consent decree. AT&T's monopoly was quite strong -- they took Microwave Communications, Inc., better known as MCI, to court for years in the 70s or so to keep them out of long distance. Or would you still prefer to pay $.30 and $.40 per minute for long distance, 24/7?

The point of anti-trust is not to "oppose free enterprise" -- it's to protect it. Market capitalism depends on markets absent of externalities, markets that actually work. Illegal monopolies hurt consumers, unfairly hurt competitors, and actually retard economic growth.

I guess no one remembers MS's anti-competitive and illegal "break it" behavior with DR-DOS in the early 90s? No one remembers the death of WordPerfect and Lotus when MS gave their own Office team the source code for Windows 95 six months before their competitors?

What about this past week, when MS back-pedaled on its "willingness" to let mfgs. decide what's on their desktop? "You can't put AOL's icon unless you put MSN's on too," they told Compaq. And that was in the one area where MS "gave in" to try to win a settlement. Where does this end?

I like MS products too. But that doesn't mean they haven't broken the law, and that doesn't mean that they aren't a dangerous monopoly.
 
not to get into a political debate .. but really usually when somethng like this happens it's just a small time politician trying to make a name for himself .. but i understand it.. in the us we dont have a laissez-fair policy when it comes to business .. we regulate .. it's not like they are trying to stop microsoft from making money, it's just we actaully have law's about what you can and cant do .. i question some of them when it comes to the internet .. i honestly think regulating the internet is evil .. but when it comes to the business , .. i dont think the buzz is really about the "programs bundled" with the os .. but i think it's just kinda in response to the whole .NET thing, maybe it's paranoia, but most people wouldn't stand for ASP's and all that .. ya i know many people think its a good idea, but the majority think its just another shady tactic by MS, who know they can get away with anything because well, they are microsoft heh.. well jus my 2cents ..
-neural
 


<< not to get into a political debate .. but really usually when somethng like this happens it's just a small time politician trying to make a name for himself .. but i understand it.. in the us we dont have a laissez-fair policy when it comes to business .. we regulate .. it's not like they are trying to stop microsoft from making money, it's just we actaully have law's about what you can and cant do .. i question some of them when it comes to the internet .. i honestly think regulating the internet is evil .. but when it comes to the business , .. i dont think the buzz is really about the &quot;programs bundled&quot; with the os .. but i think it's just kinda in response to the whole .NET thing, maybe it's paranoia, but most people wouldn't stand for ASP's and all that .. ya i know many people think its a good idea, but the majority think its just another shady tactic by MS, who know they can get away with anything because well, they are microsoft heh.. well jus my 2cents ..
-neural >>



What you got against ASP man?

-Ryan
 
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