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| Thread ID: 48035 | 2004-08-12 07:44:00 | why do ppl hate m/s | ferrite (4221) | Press F1 |
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| 260967 | 2004-08-12 11:45:00 | >If during an install YOU decide to NOT accept the EULA usually the installation will fail. This means you paid for certain software that will not install due to the fact that you will not accept the agreement. Yes and quite often if you broke the seal on the packet the software came in it meant that you had accepted the EULA but you could not read it properly unless doing so. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 260968 | 2004-08-12 14:01:00 | Even if you got MS products free it will still cost time in repairing or if you cant do it yourself it will cost dollars for a repaire person | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 260969 | 2004-08-12 15:13:00 | >What happens if you want to share an open office document with someone using MS Word or MSWorks? For a start I wouldn't share anything with MSWorks it is one program I detest but with Open Office and Word it is not a problem as long as you are carefull in Word and don't save it to MS's latest Word file format. In my opinion it is about time there was a standard for saving any wordprocessor document so that they were truely interchangable between programs and I see MS as being the biggest hinderence to this ever happening. They may be starting to use XML but with their proprietry tags it won't change anything. After all, that data is yours not MS's. Also what is wrong with saving things in either RTF or HTML >So if I want an operating system I guess I still pay do I not? >Does it just jump on to my PC without user intervention? I think they were talking about free as in not having to pay to acquire the software not the cost of installing etc. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 260970 | 2004-08-12 21:32:00 | Bazmeister said, "DOS was pretty neat ... who invented Windows ..." Xerox I believe.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 260971 | 2004-08-12 22:37:00 | Why do people hate micro$oft? Partially because of the obscene wealth the company has amassed (where do the billions come from? Our pockets of course), and partially because the OS's they produce are rubbish. The only reason it is the most widely used OS is good marketing, not good product (that's if you consider the tactics they use 'good marketing' - I despise this type of corporate behaviour) M$ windows is the most prevelant virus ever written. I would be one of the ones that 'hate' M$, just as I hate any corporate entity that amasses that much wealth. The pooling of wealth in this manner will be the downfall of the western world (just look at the history books - how long before they say "let them eat cake?". Soon I hope, then we can do to M$ what the french did to their king. And yes, I am a penguin head. Linux is soooo much better. |
nzscratch (3161) | ||
| 260972 | 2004-08-12 22:58:00 | An interesting thread. There probably isn't a definitive answer to Ferrite's question viz. Why so many people on this forum bag MS? Personally I tend to the Tall Poppy explanation. No doubt if Apple was the same size, people would be bagging it instead. There comes a point when admiration for business success turns to cynicism. People should abhor predatory business practices which strangle and kill competitors. But where do you draw the line? How many of us prefer a supermarket to the corner dairy? Supermarkets have killed dairies - yet the consumer chases choice and low cost without giving a tinkers cuss for the struggling family dairy. Tough luck. Similarly the Warehouse has killed smaller shops. The Warehouse started out as a small shop. At what point did it change from consumer darling to monolithic destroyer of other businesses? Microsoft has got to be one of the greatest business successes of mans civilisation. In 25 years from nothing to about US$1,000,000,000 market capitalisation. They must be doing something right. Business is fundamentally amoral. Profit is the driver. If that means destroying competitors, so be it. Governments recognise this and restrain the extremes. That is why we have anti-competitive (anti-monopoly) laws. Anti-trust in the USA. AT&T telephone was broken up 25 years ago into smaller companies, and this could yet happen to MS. Or MS will eventually slip in the face of Linux etc. It certainly won't last forever. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 260973 | 2004-08-12 23:59:00 | I dont hate microsoft for making one of the most user-friendly operating systems avaliable show me a more user friendly OS Lot of people would gladly switch to Linux if it wasent such a prick to get things to work eg. software modems. Windows install: Put disk in and boot, fill in a few details, less than 1 hour you are all go. Linux install: Put disk in and boot, fill in a few details (option to select about 1000 other things, kpenguins konly knows kwhat kthey kdo) Great faster install than windows about half the time, BUT then hours and hours of reading instructions, compilling kernels, compiling drivers, instaling different things all from a old fasioned consol window (try talk your grandad through this over the phone). |
Rob99 (151) | ||
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