Hvordan Microsoft vil overleve. (MS bashing)

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SomeGuyFromCA (197979) on Tuesday May 04, @08:39PM (#9058763)

> How does Microsoft Intend to Survive?

Simple. DRM in BIOSes at the hardware level. Attacks on Linux via SCO etc at the OS level. FUD, loathing, and lock-in at the applications level. Patents, DRM, EULAs and DMCA at the legal level.

Remember the hidden APIs in Windows 3.x? They'll be at it again. Even better, Microsoft could put in "Trusted Computing safeguards" so they can Trust that only Microsoft's applications suite, IDE, etc will run. Bypass these safeguards, and it's charges under the DMCA and 20 years in max security prison as an evil godless communist hippie software pirate terrorist hacker for you, buddy!

Oh, and meanwhile they'll sue you for breaking the clause buried in the Longhorn EULA where you agree to only install Microsoft applications. Good luck in fighting off their army of rabid jackals with law degrees.

> People, Businesses, Universities, and others will not be able to afford to upgrade their systems to use Longhorn.

Can they afford not to? Since Office Longhorn will (because of Trusted Computing again) only run on Windows Longhorn, and will have incompatible file formats with any previous version, and after a certain date they'll only ship Longhorn, once you buy one new machine, you have to replace them all. (They've done it before, remember?) Intel, AMD, NVidia, and ATi, among others, will love them for forcing the installation of the latest CPUs and graphics cards even in the office. Intel and AMD, in particular, will be ecstatic to add the "features" to their CPUs that will help Microsoft to do all this.

Over the last few years, it's seemed Microsoft has this plan: Make consumers believe that lock-ups and crashes are normal consequences of owning a computer and not a result of poor OS design. Make them believe that viruses and other malware are normal consequences of surfing the internet and not a result of poor browser design. Make them believe that you really do need a 2 GHz chip to run the OS and a word processor (plus a top of the line graphics card for that paperclip). Make them believe that the only thing that can replace Windows, Office or Microsoft anything else is the next version, that nothing else is an "enterprise ready solution". In short, take credit for everything good that happens, and shift blame for everything bad onto something else.

And we here on /. know better than anything I said in the last paragraph. We can see what Microsoft is trying to do. Hell, they've told the world! One Microsoft Way. It's not just their business address, it's their business strategy. We know that Gates and his minions, along with the ??AA and Congress, have possibly already won this. Have possibly already crippled the most important technological advance in history - the general-purpose home computer - and turned it into a content pipe to drain our wallets while only letting us run what they allow us. On the machines we buy and pay for! We see what's happening, but we're the minority. (I for one have been in the minority all my life. one light, one mind, flashing in the dark, blinded by the silence of a thousand broken hearts...) And when we try to tell people about this, they think we're raving paranoid lunatics.

Maybe that's the clearest sign that Micros~1 has won.

Microsoft Windows Longhorn. Projected Release Date: 1984.

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Jepp, og jeg vet hvorfor du ikke interesserer deg. DU forventer at alle andre skal forsvare (og da særlig menn) DIN frihet. Tiden er kommet da du må gjøre litt selv!

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Mange er desverre "horer"! :cry:

[Soul]

Skjønner at du brenner for denne saken gjest, men jeg syns nesten det er litt frekt å si at man er "hore" og forventer at andre skal forsvare en bare fordi en ikke interesserer seg for, eller brenner for denne saken.

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