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1. Comment - MS to Fight Korean Antitrust Decision

   (Feb 25, 2006 - 4:07 PM)

   Cranber's - I've never see so much hot air on a post.
   
   What you want is 1)Microsoft to suddenly and rapidly implode or be destroyed, 2) to have ALL the financial and personel assets redistributed to the companies you favor, 3) possibly prop up a company such as Apple to take Microsofts place.
   
   Here are some other points:
   
   1) You act like the MS .net framework doesn't exist. You make no mention about the forth coming WinFx products. But I'm sure you would dismiss them is slow, backwards and stupid with out a technical overview. Never mind that ASP.net or the Mono variant could clean up PHP (yes - PHP in it's native distro is slow) and compete with and surpass JSP.
   
   2) You seem to think that a consumer desktop experience should be just like a linux desktop experieince. But good grief, if a consumer is 'forced' into using instant messenger becasue they are to stupid or ignorant to go get AOl or what ever then that's the consumers problem. If it wasn't provided, they would fall behind Apple with IChat. Just out of curriosity, can one remove IChat or quicktime from OS X. Or is the reality that Quciktime is a foundational media component on in OS X and cannot be removed? Let me know.
   
   3) Yep. Your right on with IE. They have neglegted it badly and they made a big mistake in the IE 4 time line. However, you're not giving the credit for improving the rendering engine and severly locking down IE in Vista.
   
   Look we could go on here. The bottom line is that you're exposing a double standard. You would love to have all that cash flow into a select set of companies, those that you deem worthy, to move their products forward for your benifit. You would like consumers to have the bewildering experience of breaking software and incompatibility due to absolute middleware removal. (That might be good for a server but it doesn't work the same for a consumer desktop). You would also like to see MS only be able to bundle worthless products and force them to advertise for their competetors. Odd, in the internet era with more information out there than you can shake a stick at your claiming 'poor, ignorant consumer'. The only good point you make is on IE and everybody and their dog agrees. You claim they haven't done anything with their OS in 5 years but you claim that Vista/Longhorn Server only meerly looks like OS X and that's about it.
   
   And just for fun, how could Google stop or slow down Microsoft? Seriosuly now, they are a web advertising and app provider. They have no platform. Apple is the only serious competator and real inovator here, but they cut their own throat and are just know recovering. The move to x86 and x64 will be very big and sets them up to be more competative. The biggest problem that people have is in move to the mac is that they don't want to throw away their apps - where all the money is really invested - if you actually by software. Having an x86 capable machine makes that move a LOT easier. It also makes it a lot easier if they choose to allow OSX to invade the general PC space. That's welcome from my point of view.