Mark Kent wrote:
> High Plains Thumper espoused:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> B Gruff on Monday
>>>
>>>> <snip/?
>>>> ______________________
>>>> "Pending resolution of Microsoft?s appeal, there will
>>>> remain uncertainty about the legal principles that
>>>> govern product design issues for future releases of
>>>> Microsoft products in Europe. These uncertainties could
>>>> cause Microsoft to modify product design and delay
>>>> release dates for Windows or other products. - Microsoft
>>>> Annual Report" ______________________________
>>>>
>>>> Gee - perhaps they'd better threaten to quit dealing in
>>>> the E.U. then - that would sort out those damned
>>>> Europeans!
>>>>
>>>> http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/00011931250
>>>> 61 80008/d10k.htm
>>>
>>> Microsoft needs to grasp the fact that the "get a buck by
>>> screwing everybody else" mentality is not acceptable in
>>> Europe. Europe has markets, not a set of monopolies.
>>> Microsoft has pushed capitalism beyond the edge and make
>>> it a totality through deadlocks and traps of circularity.
>>> But will the government mind at all?
>>
>> It is interesting that they have not yet successfully
>> released their protocols for Windows XP networking. Beats
>> me, but perhaps it contains Halloween code?
>
> Hehe - good question! Embrace, extend and extinguish has
> always been one of the key Microsoft tenets, so I do not
> imagine that it's gone away (in spite of the marketing
> tenets which have been published). There's probably room
> for one of the seminal web-sites which could have the
> Microsoft Marketing Tenets, and the Real Microsoft Tenets
> side by side; that way things like Embrace, Extend,
> Extinguish could be shown alongside, err, playing fair with
> other operating systems.
Reason why I question, is it seems to be very straight
forward to reveal a protocol. Example, I send this byte
sequence, I get this acknowledgement. I do this, I get that,
etc. Byte packet transmission is formatted as ....
It also may explain why a Windows server must be a primary
domain controller. In earlier SMB protocol, a Linux server
could be a primary domain controller.
One thing I can say though, when I am on my primary PC at
home, working the net in SuSE 10.1 Open has been rewarding.
My XP system at work locks up sometimes after a long weekend.
It doesn't even acknowledge the power off button. Only fix
is to unplug the power cord around back of that Dell, wait 20
seconds, plug in and hit power switch.
Home XP partition experiences glitches also. SuSE has
consistently been a solid performer. XP is an improvement
over Windows 98, but Linux still has the edge.
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