In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 10:46:02 +0000
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> __/ [7] on Monday 02 January 2006 10:39 \__
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>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> __/ [Kelsey Bjarnason] on Monday 02 January 2006 09:06 \__
>>>
>>>> Updated Windows the other day. Got all the assorted requisite things,
>>>> plus WMP 9.0. Happy happy joy joy.
>>>>
>>>> Everything claims to have installed correctly. WMP says it installed
>>>> successfully. WMP, however, won't play media; it spews an error on any
>>>> attempt to use it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Service Pack II had similar forms of impact on networking and various
>>> components that are associated with the network. In most circumstances, I
>>> advised to wipe and re-install. [sarcasm] marvellously, this resolves the
>>> problem. That's often the only solution when an operating system is not
>>> modular. You cannot mend the morbid chunks. If Linux is like Lego, Windows
>>> is like Play-Doh.
>>
>>
>> Yeah but did micoshaft agree to pay you $99 to do their work?
>
> It could be far worse. They could charge $100. That's 3 digits. How generous
> of them... marketting [1] and dirty tactics [2] has always been their
> stronger sides.
>
> Roy
>
> [1] Dvorak wonders if Microsoft is today using reverse-dirty-tricks to
> promote the Xbox 360: pay people to create Web sites that slam the gaming
> computer in order to provoke a barrage of defenders.
They need to do that? I get over 5,000 port 445 hits a week on
my firewall as it is!
>
> [2] John Dvorak: ?Some years back, Microsoft practiced a lot of dirty
> tricks using online mavens to go into forums and create Web sites extolling
> the virtues of Windows over OS/2. They were dubbed the Microsoft Munchkins,
> and it was obvious who they were and what they were up to. But their numbers
> and energy (and they way they joined forces with nonaligned dummies who
> liked to pile on) proved too much for IBM marketers, and Windows won the
> operating-system war through fifth-column tactics?
Like the tactics, hate the tactics, Microsoft is the leader.
(If only in dirty tactics.)
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