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____/ Mark Kent on Friday 01 Jan 2010 14:36 : \____
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> ____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 31 Dec 2009 23:58 : \____
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>>> Okay, the screen is too small for detailed graphical work, and Microsoft
>>> will surely roll-out a version of office as quickly as possible with a
>>> new file format which only Microsoft can read, which will make life
>>> painful for all Blackberry, iPhone and Android users
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>> Microsoft already uses Silver Lie [sic] to cause disruption to such devices.
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> It's already causing damage, for example, Murdoch's empire has the
> rights to cricket TV broadcasting now, so in order to watch cricket, you
> either have to buy Sky TV (why would you?) or do pay per view on
> t'internet, but you need a silverlight player to do that.
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> Essentially, Murdoch has locked out linux users from online cricket.
> One would think that Ofcom might have a view on this, but time will
> tell.
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> Similar debate has been ongoing with the HD broadcasting even by the
> BBC, as there was talk of encrypting aspects of that, although I'm not
> sure which. The EPG still seems to be a problem on "freesat", too.
Murdoch had meetings with Microsoft recently. They plotted an attack on Google.
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