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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: bwid_s_01 on 25 July 2003, 04:41

Title: Microsoft admits it wants to FORCE everybody to use Longhorn!!!!
Post by: bwid_s_01 on 25 July 2003, 04:41
First of all, heres a link to the COMPLETE version of the longhorn review article I linked to yesterday:
http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1142564 (http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1142564)

Please note especially paragraphs 10-12 under the section titled "So When?". For those who don't feel like searching for it, here it is:

 
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Speaking at Winhec in May, Phil Poole, Microsoft's senior vice-president of the Windows Platform Group, talked of "life immersion": melding products so seamlessly into the user's life that they had no choice but to upgrade.

"We haven't immersed the technology into their lives as well as we could and we haven't asked them to immerse their lives into the technology as well as could be done either," he said.

That, then, is Microsoft's task for the next two years - to convince us that our business and personal lives will so depend on this upgrade that we will not be able to live without it.


Fucking Pricks!
Title: Microsoft admits it wants to FORCE everybody to use Longhorn!!!!
Post by: avello500 on 25 July 2003, 21:53
once again i must agree. fucking pricks.
Title: Microsoft admits it wants to FORCE everybody to use Longhorn!!!!
Post by: suselinux on 25 July 2003, 10:01
cumguzlersoft

I kinda got the idea that MS would really push LongHorn with adds and stuff, but Total assiml....I mean immersion was not what I had expected.

Kinda funny, they wanna make life depend on having LongHorn

Right now mine depends on not having Bindoze

Cumguzlersoft, what will they think of next? :D
Title: Microsoft admits it wants to FORCE everybody to use Longhorn!!!!
Post by: mc0282 on 25 July 2003, 20:23
correct me if i am wrong didn't microsoft lose the ANTI-TRUST case, shouldn't microsoft stop including movie maker,media playe, other useless feature ? or they going to act like nothing  happend ?
Title: Microsoft admits it wants to FORCE everybody to use Longhorn!!!!
Post by: suselinux on 25 July 2003, 21:45
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Originally posted by mc0282:
correct me if i am wrong didn't microsoft lose the ANTI-TRUST case, shouldn't microsoft stop including movie maker,media playe, other useless feature ? or they going to act like nothing  happend ?


Anti-Trust Case??  :D
Title: Microsoft admits it wants to FORCE everybody to use Longhorn!!!!
Post by: mobrien_12 on 26 July 2003, 00:27
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Originally posted by mc0282:
correct me if i am wrong didn't microsoft lose the ANTI-TRUST case, shouldn't microsoft stop including movie maker,media playe, other useless feature ? or they going to act like nothing  happend ?


No.  Officially MS lost the first case.  However, Jackson couldn't keep his *&#$ing mouth shut and made comments during a magazine interview which caused the appeals court to decide that his remedy needed to be thrown out.

Enter a new judge, Koltar-Kelley.

Koltar-Kelley ordered the DOJ and MS to settle in the name of 9-11 rather than have a second trial.  The settlement was an enormous victory for MS especially since it included an agreement by the DOJ that MS would never again be prosecuted for bundling/tying media placer, MSIE, etc. to the OS.

[ July 25, 2003: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]

[ July 25, 2003: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]

Title: Microsoft admits it wants to FORCE everybody to use Longhorn!!!!
Post by: bwid_s_01 on 26 July 2003, 01:33
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Originally posted by M. O'Brien:
...it included an agreement by the DOJ that MS would never again be prosecuted for bundling/tying media placer, MSIE, etc. to the OS.


  :mad:    :mad:    :mad:  WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!? So thats why MS got away with integrating MSN into XP and longhorn. Blast those fucking pricks at Microsoft, and the idiots at the DOJ. Fuck them all!
Title: Microsoft admits it wants to FORCE everybody to use Longhorn!!!!
Post by: Laukev7 on 26 July 2003, 01:55
I was not aware of that particular piece of information, and this indeed explains a lot. They really do get away with everything.
Title: Microsoft admits it wants to FORCE everybody to use Longhorn!!!!
Post by: gump420 on 26 July 2003, 02:37
Technically, once any part of that settlement is broken, the entire thing is going to basically be null and void.  So we're back at ground zero - ie, like nothing happened.  It's just gonna take at least ten years before anybody in the DOJ has the balls to sue them again . . .
Title: Microsoft admits it wants to FORCE everybody to use Longhorn!!!!
Post by: M51DPS on 26 July 2003, 04:08
That's exactly what we need, an OS so integrated that even our lives can crash.
Title: Microsoft admits it wants to FORCE everybody to use Longhorn!!!!
Post by: avello500 on 26 July 2003, 08:53
"sorry boss i cant come to work today, my life blue screened when i woke up. i need a full re-install."
Title: Microsoft admits it wants to FORCE everybody to use Longhorn!!!!
Post by: solarismka on 27 July 2003, 08:26
ROFLMAO!!!

 
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sorry boss i cant come to work today, my life blue screened when i woke up. i need a full re-install."


Well i'm happy using Linux!  And already people are saying they will stick to XP and not upgrade.   If they try to force me I'd rather live without whatever it is needed for!   :cool:  

 
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Turning this on its head, WinFS creates a central information repository into which all files - regardless of type or originating application - are saved, allowing you to make system-wide searches that will gather information from the whole database.  


so now it makes it easier for the feds to watch you.

[ July 26, 2003: Message edited by: -=Solaris.M.K.A=- ]