Comments on: Microsoft Watch on Microsoft vs Google and Microsoft vs Sub-notebooks http://techrights.org/2009/08/04/microsoft-v-google-sub-notebooks/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: verofakto http://techrights.org/2009/08/04/microsoft-v-google-sub-notebooks/comment-page-1/#comment-71851 verofakto Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:54:21 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=16107#comment-71851 Apparently Will has been repeating the "M$ is dying" mantra for close to <a href="http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23669&cid=2555431" rel="nofollow">a decade</a> now. People like him live in an alternate reality where merely <i>saying</i> something enough times (as opposed to <i>doing</i> something) eventually generates the desired results. When that doesn't work, it's just a matter of imagining that the results were indeed generated, and insulting anyone who disagrees with that. Remind you of someone? Apparently Will has been repeating the “M$ is dying” mantra for close to a decade now.

People like him live in an alternate reality where merely saying something enough times (as opposed to doing something) eventually generates the desired results. When that doesn’t work, it’s just a matter of imagining that the results were indeed generated, and insulting anyone who disagrees with that.

Remind you of someone?

]]> By: zatoichi http://techrights.org/2009/08/04/microsoft-v-google-sub-notebooks/comment-page-1/#comment-71850 zatoichi Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:35:40 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=16107#comment-71850 "No substantial numbers of Vista users"...? Where'd you get that from, Willy? <a href="http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-daily-20080701-20090802" rel="nofollow">StatCounter</a> shows Vista with about a quarter of the market. “No substantial numbers of Vista users”…? Where’d you get that from, Willy?

StatCounter shows Vista with about a quarter of the market.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2009/08/04/microsoft-v-google-sub-notebooks/comment-page-1/#comment-71847 Roy Schestowitz Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:59:27 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=16107#comment-71847 <blockquote> Sad, be I would like Eweek to exists beyond the dinosaur MS. Somehow they cannot get beyond that MS is their advertising cash cow. </blockquote> It's part of <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=site:boycottnovell.com+ziff+davis&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B5GGGL_enGB315GB316&ie=UTF-8&hl=en" rel="nofollow">Ziff Davis</a>.

Sad, be I would like Eweek to exists beyond the dinosaur MS. Somehow they cannot get beyond that MS is their advertising cash cow.

It’s part of Ziff Davis.

]]> By: Chips B. Malroy http://techrights.org/2009/08/04/microsoft-v-google-sub-notebooks/comment-page-1/#comment-71846 Chips B. Malroy Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:55:47 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=16107#comment-71846 Well, while twitter is as usual right. Let me refresh. I agree that eweek is paid ny MS advertising bucks and that is how it exists. Most likely that is why Nick is hired, because he is MS friendly. But still, I want to take the Goblin approach this time, for other reasons. I give Nick the benefit of gthe doubt, only because at this point, nobody reads him. I really try to b fair, but he and eweek owe it to users to do that. Sad, be I would like Eweek to exists beyond the dinosaur MS. Somehow they cannot get beyond that MS is their advertising cash cow. Eweek, in some ways has been a good commenting site for me. Eweek offers something to me that you Roy and Goblin cannot. Unlike both of you they are not honest. Which I greatly, hugely, admire in both of you. But chatting with both of you, is like chatting with the choir. We know, we believe. I am an Advocate. Why is that? Because there are so many windows users in pain. I feel their pain, I know both you, Goblin, tweeter, and all the others at BN do too. Well, while twitter is as usual right. Let me refresh. I agree that eweek is paid ny MS advertising bucks and that is how it exists. Most likely that is why Nick is hired, because he is MS friendly. But still, I want to take the Goblin approach this time, for other reasons. I give Nick the benefit of gthe doubt, only because at this point, nobody reads him. I really try to b fair, but he and eweek owe it to users to do that.

Sad, be I would like Eweek to exists beyond the dinosaur MS. Somehow they cannot get beyond that MS is their advertising cash cow. Eweek,

in some ways has been a good commenting site for me.

Eweek offers something to me that you Roy and Goblin cannot. Unlike both of you they are not honest. Which I greatly, hugely, admire in both of you. But chatting with both of you, is like chatting with the choir. We know, we believe. I am an Advocate.

Why is that? Because there are so many windows users in pain. I feel their pain, I know both you, Goblin, tweeter, and all the others at BN do too.

]]> By: twitter http://techrights.org/2009/08/04/microsoft-v-google-sub-notebooks/comment-page-1/#comment-71839 twitter Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:29:24 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=16107#comment-71839 <blockquote>no Linux distro is ever going to be popular enough to draw a substantial amount of customers away from Win 7 products.</blockquote> This is a half truth. GNU/Linux is taking substantial numbers of Windows XP users. There are no substantial numbers of Vista users <a href="http://slashdot.org/~twitter/journal/177855" rel="nofollow">because Vista failed in every way</a>. There will be even fewer Windows 7 users. Each release of Windows has been met with more resistance than the last and there are not many Windows fans left. Less than 2% of the market - a fact just as valid as any of the more expensive studies out there.

no Linux distro is ever going to be popular enough to draw a substantial amount of customers away from Win 7 products.

This is a half truth. GNU/Linux is taking substantial numbers of Windows XP users. There are no substantial numbers of Vista users because Vista failed in every way. There will be even fewer Windows 7 users. Each release of Windows has been met with more resistance than the last and there are not many Windows fans left. Less than 2% of the market – a fact just as valid as any of the more expensive studies out there.

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