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Microsoft buys a share of Facebook
« on: 17 October 2007, 23:36 »
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=483788&in_page_id=1770

Great, I don't think. I can see Facebook suffering because of this.

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Re: Microsoft buys a share of Facebook
« Reply #1 on: 18 October 2007, 01:17 »
Facebook and MySpace are the cancer of the internet if you ask me...

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Re: Microsoft buys a share of Facebook
« Reply #2 on: 18 October 2007, 01:27 »
no facebook is the aids :\ myspace iss like.. lung cancer:\ lmao
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Re: Microsoft buys a share of Facebook
« Reply #3 on: 18 October 2007, 03:32 »
I actually think this diversification is a good thing for those of us not using Windows.  Why?  The simple explanation is that it shows that even Microsoft has a waning interest in the desktop market, which has really been their bread-and-butter.  Perhaps they'll actually dump Vista and just make an all-out acquisitions push for the Internet so they'll finally cement their "most hated" reputation.  This is something IBM tried to do in the OS sphere with roughly the same amount of money (in 1980 dollars), and look where they are now - Thinkpads and server blades.  Perhaps Microsoft will revisit Big Blue's downfall for the good of technology as a whole.  :D

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Re: Microsoft buys a share of Facebook
« Reply #4 on: 31 October 2007, 06:54 »
Wow. you hit the nail on the head...

Wouldve taken twenty pages to do that
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Re: Microsoft buys a share of Facebook
« Reply #5 on: 31 October 2007, 14:38 »
well, if MS no longer make operating systems, who'd fill the gap?

seriously, who? i know there are "alternatives" to ms windows (i haven't had ms windows on my pc for so long i can't remember, although i am no linux/mac purist) but are any of them sufficient to replace ms windows in its strongholds? in fact it would be very good if there were alternative OSs ready to step up since then companies etc etc might consider those alternatives even when ms windows is still being sold, accelerating its eventual and inevitable demise.
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Re: Microsoft buys a share of Facebook
« Reply #6 on: 31 October 2007, 22:51 »
I'll guess and say "Mac OS X, Ubuntu, Novell|SuSE, and RedHat".  True, the latter two have "made a deal with the devil" as it were; however, Mac is actually gaining desktop share (despite articles to the contrary, the average growth rate has been +1.5 - 2% per year) and retailers like Dell are carrying Ubuntu pre-installed on select systems.  Any way it goes, I think the writing is on the wall.  Let's just hope Ballmer throws another chair at it so we can confirm the notion. :D

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Re: Microsoft buys a share of Facebook
« Reply #7 on: 1 November 2007, 11:43 »
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well, if MS no longer make operating systems, who'd fill the gap?

seriously, who? i know there are "alternatives" to ms windows (i haven't had ms windows on my pc for so long i can't remember, although i am no linux/mac purist) but are any of them sufficient to replace ms windows in its strongholds? in fact it would be very good if there were alternative OSs ready to step up since then companies etc etc might consider those alternatives even when ms windows is still being sold, accelerating its eventual and inevitable demise.

The only thing companies want out of an OS is a large usable application pool, the ability to Ghost (without any hostname collisions etc.), and some support.

Ubuntu seems to have all these three. Don't know about Mac OS X's ability to ghost it on computers without hostname collisions.

However, if Microsoft would stop right now, it would take at least 10 years before companies switch.
This is for the simple fact of specialised applications running only on Windows, most sysadmins who are too affraid to switch to anything they aren't used to, and a community who would still improve the "abandonware" Windows.

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Re: Microsoft buys a share of Facebook
« Reply #8 on: 1 November 2007, 14:09 »
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However, if Microsoft would stop right now, it would take at least 10 years before companies switch.
This is for the simple fact of specialised applications running only on Windows, most sysadmins who are too affraid to switch to anything they aren't used to, and a community who would still improve the "abandonware" Windows.

That's not quite true, even if Microsoft stopped selling Windows, they would still own the copyright so it'd still be illegal to distribute it. People would have the choice of keeping thier existing computers running Windows for the next 10 years or buy new machines running an alternative.

There are plenty of cases where companies have stopped making software or even gone bust and the liquidators have managed to shut down sites that redistribute their programs.
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Re: Microsoft buys a share of Facebook
« Reply #9 on: 16 November 2007, 10:11 »
So that means that when they stop or go bust, it means their software can't be purchased for any longer?