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Re: What has Microsoft infected now...
« Reply #1 on: 19 March 2005, 17:21 »
don't worry, now sun and microsoft are working together, microsoft will fix all their bugs, while making sure everything still works, and they'll do it quick smart while making sure there's no bloatware.

isn't that right, muzzy?
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Re: What has Microsoft infected now...
« Reply #2 on: 19 March 2005, 18:16 »
Next thing you know they'll be fixing their contract with Satan so they get some more money... lol
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Re: What has Microsoft infected now...
« Reply #3 on: 19 March 2005, 21:08 »
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http://blogs.msdn.com/eec/archive/2005/03/03/384874.aspx

ewwwwwwww

That's quite a sad story actually. However, the article doesn't explain much to me about what kind of cooperation there is between the two companies.

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Re: What has Microsoft infected now...
« Reply #4 on: 20 March 2005, 00:23 »
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That's quite a sad story actually. However, the article doesn't explain much to me about what kind of cooperation there is between the two companies.


According to Microsoft:
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There will be a total and complete agreement with Sun to sponsor Microsoft products in the forseeable future.


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What the fuck?  All we said was that we'd SETTLE.  We don't remember agreeing to be Microsoft's lapdog, nor will we so long as Steve Ballmer is interim CEO.


Hrrrm...

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Re: What has Microsoft infected now...
« Reply #5 on: 20 March 2005, 11:11 »
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I know a lot of you think this is kind of here, he and I are up here. Most people don't realize that actually Steve and I went to high school at crosstown high schools in Michigan. We went to Harvard together. We actually were at the Stanford Business School at the same time. And now we've been actually pretty good friends for a long, long period of time. We've had, you know, some rocky moments -- (laughter) -- I don't know, was it something I said, Steve? (Laughter.)

But, anyhow, we have entered into a pretty interesting relationship, and we couldn't think of any other way to make a stronger statement to you all about how serious we are about this partnership other than to -- as we head into playoff time -- exchange gifts as long-time Motown Red Wing fans. So what I'm going to do here is I've got a signed Nicklas Lidstrom Red Wing jersey that I am going to present to my good buddy Steve Ballmer. There you go.


"So what I'm going to do here is I've got a signed Nicklas Lidstrom Red Wing jersey that I am going to present to my good buddy Steve Ballmer. There you go."

For a minute there, I thought they were going to yiff!  :eek:

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So I called Steve, and we went and played golf, and sat down to talk about it, and sure enough, 4:15 this morning we got to a signature on a 10-year collaboration to make interoperable in a very unique and exceptional way here we think will advantage both the Microsoft and the Sun customers in a special way, with interoperability, familiarity, while respecting each other's IP in a very solid way.


Yeah, that sure worked out just swell the last time you tried it!  :p

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SCOTT MCNEALY: Make no mistake about it: There's nothing about this agreement that would upset us if it resulted in people buying more Microsoft and more Sun equipment than they normally would have. We have no issue with that. I don't think you have a problem, and I don't think we have a problem with that. And the rest of the world has to deal with that. So understand that's part of the motivation here.


Does that sound like a big "Fuck you!" to the rest of the world to you too?  :fu:

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We've been shipping -- I'm trying to be calm. We've been shipping Intel-based computers for four, five years and we have a complete line of Intel-based products, 1U and 2U products as well as blade products, appliances, OEM and end-user that have been running Solaris as well as Linux on those, and we have announced today that we are certifying all of those products to be Windows ready and Windows compatible.


Translation: You won't be running Linux on our stuff for much longer.  :mad:


Transcript of Press Conference
Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft
Scott McNealy, Chairman and CEO, Sun Microsystems
April 2, 2004
San Francisco, California


You'd think that these two dumbasses: Scott McNealey and Greg Papadopoulos would have learned their lesson. Sun is soooooooooooooo screwed.  :thumbdwn:
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Re: What has Microsoft infected now...
« Reply #6 on: 20 March 2005, 21:58 »
heh... you never know if this is a sceme by sun to do some damage to micr...
oh wait.. they're not smart enough to pull something like that off...
yeah, they're screwed
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Re: What has Microsoft infected now...
« Reply #7 on: 20 March 2005, 23:59 »
heh... you never know if this is a sceme by sun to do some damage to micr...
oh wait.. they're not smart enough to pull something like that off...
yeah, they're screwed


I can just see it now: in a few years, MS absconds with Sun's technology to improve the "interoperativity" between Sun's systems and "Dot-Not" (so far, long on promise; short on delivery). Of course, "interoperativity" to MS means lock-in to the rest of us. I wouldn't trust Steve "Monkey Dance" Ballmer any farther than I could throw him.
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Re: What has Microsoft infected now...
« Reply #8 on: 21 March 2005, 14:26 »
I think Sun will keep supporting Solaris and Linux, they just want a bigger marketbase for there hardware. If apple would allow it they would support OSX if they had the chance.

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Re: What has Microsoft infected now...
« Reply #9 on: 21 March 2005, 21:26 »
sun support linux in name only, in my opinion.

i certainly confirmed this in my own mind when i visited a sun remote administration centre in scotland last year, although i have no evidence to show you or anything.
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