Microsoft Charges $19.95 to install New Bugs

[LJE2]

For all you Microsoft Fans out there, Microsoft had confirmed that Windows 98SE, contains a bug that will cause your computer to lock up when it goes into suspend mode, the only way out is to reboot, read about it here. http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,37801,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh.ni

[jadinolf]

I have been told that most of the fixes will be available for download.

[cobain1crt]

Wouldn't it be fun if microsoft just disapeared...

[Plaster]

Yeah Cobain, that would be fun. As a result, it would be fun watching the enitre PC industry diappear with it. That would be the result.

[Scott Evans]

I doubt it, since MS is a marketing and idea acquisition company not a software company. Name A SINGLE ORIGINAL idea from MS.


Oh, I forgot- Microsoft Bob http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

Losing MS is not the answer, but convincing them to give the public what IT wants rather than what THEY want us to have would be nice.
We vote with our dollars, and lemmings we is.
Go lemmings go!

[BBA]

Scott, just whose dollars do you think went into making MS what it is? Hmmm......
Maybe the majority of the PC users in the USA?

Why? Why would anyone buy from such an evil?

Leaves one to wonder... maybe MS is what people want?

BTW: Since Bill Gates kinda wrote the code for DOS, maybe he did something original? No?


BBA

[Scott Evans]

Remember the IBM/Intel/MS original 'per CPU' licence agreement? It is STILL in effect. EVERY SINGLE PC platform motherboard sold with an x86 CPU has MS-DOS licensing fees paid to MS, whether an MS-DOS OS was included or not. THAT is where the money came from. And probably why MS-DOS is STILL with us in their mainstream OS, and why we are limited in architecture on the PC. The at the time odd licensing agreement was a gamble that paid off well. IBM never thought that the PC platform would fly.

Microsoft DID NOT come up with MS-DOS, it was purchased and changed very little at first.
Ask Gary Kildaur (SP?) the father of the BIOS about that. Oops, he's dead.

They DID do the initial developement of OS/2 under a partnership with IBM, and ended up keeping most of the code. NT is what became of that project, started in the days of the first 32 bit processor. This really pissed off IBM, which is why they split the partnership with a flurry of lawsuits in the late 80's.

Is MS evil? No. Just very lucky at first, then very aggressive to the point of having no morals. Now they are a runaway freight train, and the brakeman jumped off long ago.
We are now along for the ride.

I don't think they're evil, I just think they get WAY more credit that they deserve for acquiring and successfully marketing others' ideas. Hype vs. reality. I give them credit as smart, far-sighted aggressive businessmen, not software developers.

Hell, Apple copied the Graphical User Interface from Xerox! Xerox had a GUI (and a PC-like system)in 1972!