Stop Microsoft
All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: cocoamix on 13 January 2003, 17:51
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Line up for M$ money? (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1093&e=5&cid=1093&u=/pcworld/20030111/tc_pcworld/108747)
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microsoft in panic about customers seeing through high price ripoff scandal!
in recent news microsoft have started giving refunds on their overpriced fuckware in a bid to keep hold of customers who are becoming more and more savvy to the fact that there is better software in the world at a cheaper price under more reasonable conditions.
microsoft are hoping that by making their 'products' dirt cheap, students will not notice their highly restrictive and invasive licencing agreements and will refrain from trying out alternatives to microsoft's offerings. These licencing agreements will enable microsoft to make up the lost money by selling information about the users of their software.
Experts say that users are likely to be taken in by this for five to ten years and "by that time, microsoft will have used hardware to tie everybody into their own platform anyway" said one notable pundit.
[ January 13, 2003: Message edited by: Calum ]
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Originally posted by Calum:
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microsoft in panic about customers seeing through high price ripoff scandal!
More like the California courts forced them too.
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Originally posted by fett101:
More like the California courts forced them too.
Erm... quite, this is a SETTLEMENT agreed upon by both parties. This prevents M$ going to court and possibly having a judgement against them, which would then be a legal and binding precendent that would mean every state in the country could seek legal damages of the same order (M$ do not have that much money). This is just more proof in my mind that the American government is in bed with M$ and helping them out at every stage.