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Has microsoft done anything good for the computer industry?
piratePenguin:
They make millions of people upgrade their hardware every so often!
dmcfarland:
Doesnt linux require ppl to upgrade in order to make it functional for regular use?
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---They make millions of people upgrade their hardware every so often!
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Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: dmcfarland ---Open Office seems like its based on Star Office than it does MS Orifice.
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Yes, Star Office = OpenOffice (all one word) but Sun have copied many things from MS Office - like the user interface for example.
--- Quote from: dmcfarland ---I dont think Macs are bad Pc'S.
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No doubt Macs would've taken off since they were the due to having the most user friendly OS of the time. Apple leading things would be worse than Microsoft because they wouldn't just own the OS but the hardware too, secret instructions would make it damn near impossible for a competitor to create a clone or write a competing OS for it, and as piratePeguin said they could charge what they like for the hardware and make people upgrade often. Yes Apple ruling would be very bad indeed but they're not thank Microsoft.
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: dmcfarland ---Doesnt linux require ppl to upgrade in order to make it functional for regular use?
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But you can upgrade it for free and if it's a payware distro you can tell them to fuck off and go elsewhere which you can't do with Windows.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: dmcfarland ---Doesnt linux require ppl to upgrade in order to make it functional for regular use?
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If I was using Windows, I would want XP so I can get IE7 when it's released. I've used Windows on this system and it wasn't increadibly pretty (i.e. fast/snappy) (not as pretty as GNOME on GNU/Linux is), I would really want another 256MB RAM (so I'd have 512MB altogether).
On GNU/Linux, I can use the latest Firefox on Slackware 8 (probably). If Firefox sucks on my 32MB RAM system, I can use dillo.
EDIT: http://www.microsuck.com/content/whatsbad.shtml#upgrade
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