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http://www.microsoft.com
eg: http://software.silicon.com/os/0,390...9150831,00.htm


Good news for Microsoft and for Commercial Software.

T'was the Thu, 09 Mar 2006 19:39:07 +1300 when I remembered Fred Dagg
<> saying something like this:

>Good news for Microsoft and for Commercial Software.

You're not going to become the Microsoft version of Cup of Tea are ya?
--
Cheers,

Waylon Kenning.
See my blog at http://spaces.msn.com/WaylonKenning/

On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:11:23 +1300, Waylon Kenning
<> exclaimed:

>T'was the Thu, 09 Mar 2006 19:39:07 +1300 when I remembered Fred Dagg
><> saying something like this:
>
>>Good news for Microsoft and for Commercial Software.
>
>You're not going to become the Microsoft version of Cup of Tea are ya?

Fred Dagg wrote:
> http://www.microsoft.com
> eg: http://software.silicon.com/os/0,390...9150831,00.htm
>
>
> Good news for Microsoft and for Commercial Software.

Every Government? here we have just 2 departments and that is for XP.

Aiming to become a MS employee are we? hoping for a job in the PR dept?

regards

Thing

Waylon Kenning wrote:
> T'was the Thu, 09 Mar 2006 19:39:07 +1300 when I remembered Fred Dagg
> <> saying something like this:
>
>
>>Good news for Microsoft and for Commercial Software.
>
>
> You're not going to become the Microsoft version of Cup of Tea are ya?
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Waylon Kenning.
> See my blog at http://spaces.msn.com/WaylonKenning/

heh, at least cup of tea's comments are based on some sort of reality.

regards

Thing

Why is it also good for (non MS) commercial software?

Or does 'commercial software' basically now just mean 'MS' these days?
Wouldn't that be a bad thing for commercial software?

Actually why is it good news for MS? Presumably because the government
depts are now trumpeting the savings on their MS software, wouldn't
that mean MS is actually getting less money now?

It sounds like your only reason to be happy is that those dirty open
source commies have been kept at bay for another couple of years in
some UK govt depts. Why would you even care what some UK govt depts
use?

You really are as idiotic as teacup.

--
Cheers
Anton

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:14:40 +1300, thing2 wrote:

> Fred Dagg wrote:
>> http://www.microsoft.com
>> eg: http://software.silicon.com/os/0,390...9150831,00.htm
>>
>>
>> Good news for Microsoft and for Commercial Software.
>
> Every Government? here we have just 2 departments and that is for XP.
>
> Aiming to become a MS employee are we? hoping for a job in the PR dept?

Before too long wanting to be employed by Micro$oft will be like wanting
to be employed by SCO.

Did you know that the longest serving board member for SCO/Caldera has
only been on the board since 1998, and that a majority of board members
and senior employees are replacements within the last 3-4 years?

SCO is in the process of suing itself out of existence.

Here's a question:

What good purpose is there for a large monopolistic multinational
corporation to register more than 5000 mostly software patents within the
last eight years?


Have A Nice Cup of Tea

--
Every major worm other than the original Morris Worm from 1988 has leveraged
a hole in Microsoft products.

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:15:25 +1300, thing2 wrote:

> Waylon Kenning wrote:
>> T'was the Thu, 09 Mar 2006 19:39:07 +1300 when I remembered Fred Dagg
>> <> saying something like this:
>>
>>
>>>Good news for Microsoft and for Commercial Software.
>>
>>
>> You're not going to become the Microsoft version of Cup of Tea are ya?
>> --
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Waylon Kenning.
>> See my blog at http://spaces.msn.com/WaylonKenning/
>
> heh, at least cup of tea's comments are based on some sort of reality.

Those new reduced prices for Micro$oft products will become the expected
normal price for Micro$oft software.

Meanwhile Open Source software across the board will continue to rapidly
improve, and at a pace that Micro$oft cannot even hope to match.

Just like Micro$oft released M$ Internet Explorer into the Browser market
as a free piece of software for Unix, the Mac and for M$ Windows, thereby
killing the market for browsers, Linux and Open Office, and Firefox, and
KDE/Gnome - all high quality examples of Free and Open Source software -
will kill the market for M$ Windows, M$ Office, and M$ Internet Explorer.
And Open Exchange is rapidly moving towards a condition where it will
become a serious threat to M$ Exchange.

Unless there are hideously unbelievable mistakes on the part of the
creators of Free and Open Source software the future of Open software and
Open standards is bright and breezy.

The bottom line is: Micro$oft is a dead and bankrupt corporation. It's
just that the body of the dinosaur is still twitchin... err... "innovating".


Have A Nice Cup of Tea

--
"Microsoft don't need any moral right to be a hypocrite. It's an oxymoron.
They will do what they can get away with. Of course this makes it difficult
for their advocates to occupy any high moral ground."

Have A Nice Cup of Tea <> wrote:

>On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:15:25 +1300, thing2 wrote:

>
>Those new reduced prices for Micro$oft products will become the expected
>normal price for Micro$oft software.
>
>Meanwhile Open Source software across the board will continue to rapidly
>improve, and at a pace that Micro$oft cannot even hope to match.
>
>
>Have A Nice Cup of Tea

Anyone take a bet that MS will run off to the US congress to get OSS
banned as it's un american??

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:20:14 +1300, Mutlley wrote:

> Anyone take a bet that MS will run off to the US congress to get OSS
> banned as it's un american??

They've already tried FUDDing it as "a cancer" and "un-American". Both
descriptions according to Micro$oft's own internal research have backfired
bigtime!

http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween7.html


Have A Nice Cup of Tea

--
"Microsoft don't need any moral right to be a hypocrite. It's an oxymoron.
They will do what they can get away with. Of course this makes it difficult
for their advocates to occupy any high moral ground."