Splot:
Ok... Hmmmm....
I have to totaly disagree with you. You are right, M$ is out to make money, but that is all they are out for!
Have you read about their practices at all? Did you know that even IE was a browser userped unfairly from another company with the SPECIFIC intent of driving Netscape out of Buisness? Did you know that the very windows interface was a SPECIFIC attempt at riping off the MacOS? Did you know M$ has not actually made or designed a single pice of software themselves (save for Office and similar crap)???
Furthermore, M$ throws its weight around with the intent of forcing their associets to block other companies, like the deal with vendors shiping computers with other OS's. M$ doese not care about the end users at all and would rather make themselves a sinacure by driving everyone out of buissness and keeping their users locked in a little M$ cage.
Did you know M$ made an attempt at actually monopolizing HTML? Did you know that one of their main buisness tactics is FUD? Did you know that even DOS is a stolen OS, and thet OS/2 was also sabatoged by M$ when they baild and ran away with half the code?
And as for your other assertion that if it werent for M$ there wouldnet be PC's. AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!!! Jezz.... the first PC was the freaking APPLE!!!! The only reason M$ made it as far is Windows was because of Apple! Apple had the first PC's along with Comodor Atari etc. etc. and for their day, they were pretty damn popular.
Finaly, Apple Hardware is pretty freakin awsome. Take a look at the G4 spec's, and don't come whining about Mhz because we have been thrugh this on this forum far to many times. When my bro. worked for Disney for example, they had him on a 90Mhz SGI workstation and it ran blindingly fast and renderd everything in a split second, how? Hardware optimization and effeciency.
When you see more applications for Windoze, sure, I allways wanted 3000 spread sheet programs, 16000 viruses, 1billion quake clones, to sift thrugh, but sometimes Id like to find the good ones. In any case, a suped up Mac can handle graphics apps better than any PC, which is why they are used, and why I use them.
I seriously don't understand how you can be so dilusional about M$'s buisness. Seriously, do some resaerch and you will learn just how predetory they are. For god sakes, the entire reason for the XBox was because the Sony CEO mentioned that he wanted to make the PS2 into a sort of online internet appliance, M$ pushed the XBox out the door over a weekend, bought out a bunch of good developers and threw out their origional staff (i.e. Bungie), and is now trying to take over the console market. Is this fair?
It's not quite competition when the driving factor is not to better your competitors but rather to cripple them under the weight of your economic clout. M$ has no interest in making a good product, their interst lies in keeping the user traped and limiting his choice, IE became popular this way, as well as countless other programs of theirs.
M$ never had you in mind when you bought their product, they had your wallet in mind. And the common PC user dosn't realize that M$ has 'em by the balls when they use windoze, because in that realm, when M$ says frog, everybody jumps.
[ March 15, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax ]
