Comments on: Leaked Memo Reveals Microsoft’s Latest Anti-GNU/Linux Moves

By: max stirner

max stirner — Sun, 11 May 2008 10:47:51 +0000

i thought this article was rather shocking and was actually waiting for you to pick it up

It shows how technological progress is effectively hindered by monopolistic arrangements rather than anything else. the big desktop machine is deader than vista, the cloud has arrived. the fact that MS is still managing to sell their 8-year old piece of rubbish is sad enough..

one would want a 15” SSD-HD 1kg linux machine for 500 USD max., macair without the brand premium, and that is obv technically feasible! at the same time everybody would stand to lose a nice big margin (which has been shrinking since the 80s).

cant we please have some taiwanese company cut the thieving lot out of the market here?!

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Sun, 11 May 2008 02:27:36 +0000

“Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don’t evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, ‘how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?’”

— Bill Gates, The Seattle Weekly, (April 30, 1998)

Regarding Vista as a DRM cage:

“Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.”

— Bill Gates

Welcome to Microsoft Windows — where innovation is economic alone.

By: Victor Soliz

Victor Soliz — Sat, 10 May 2008 21:34:23 +0000

Wow, did the article read as “Microsoft decides Vista is more important to the IT world than actual progress, hopes PC makers agree to their non-sense”