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 Titus PulloI came, I saw, I slept
join:2004-06-26
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| Cry us a river, MS Does anyone really think that MS can't come up with something better than WGA? If the answer is no, then MS is far worse than anyone knows, and buying their software is completely ridiculous. If yes, then there's your answer: they're only putting up speed bumps because they know damn well (as this article points out) that they NEED pirating to survive. Pirates make their world go round. The trouble is, their stuff is getting to the point in quality where it's not worth the time and effort to pirate (and you'll need a new box to run it), and the prices are to the point where upgrading is way beyond worth it -- hence new releases that may as well accompany a new computer purchase only. Me thinks they've boxed themselves into a corner of their own making by pure complacency -- the one thing Gates said would never happen at MS, but the very thing they repeat over and over. Pretty soon someone out there in Redmond is going to have to put away the Apple copier and make something original, because MS seems to think innovation is looking around to see what sells, doing a copy and paste with a repackage, and turning the end result over to marketing to sell it. We get WoW! as the result.
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 StraitShootWho Loves Ya Baby? - Theo KojakPremium
join:2003-02-08
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2 edits | I think they may want us to pirate their stuff so they can "catch" us and put the whole whole world in jail..LOL
Imagine, M$ sues EVERYONE! The whole world! Scary thing is, M$ would probably win...!
THEY are worried? Well, Firefox didn't copy IE7, did it? | | |
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| Actually, to an extent, the Fox *did* borrow some features from IE (6, not 7); has anyone realized that Firefox now actually supports some ActiveX controls *natively*? (No, I'm not kidding; the IGN Download Manager which is used by FilePlanet is an ActiveX control, and is supported natively by both IE and Firefox; in fact, until the current version, it actually worked *better* in Firefox 2.x than it did in IE 7, especially in Vista.) | |
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