Comments on: IDG Blames Carriers Amid Strategic Shift at Microsoft: Don’t Sell Windows Phones, Tax Linux Instead http://techrights.org/2011/06/13/cant-beat-them-tax-them/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2011/06/13/cant-beat-them-tax-them/comment-page-1/#comment-120025 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:38:41 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=49738#comment-120025 I see what you did there. ಠ_ಠ

]]> By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2011/06/13/cant-beat-them-tax-them/comment-page-1/#comment-119987 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:54:24 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=49738#comment-119987 Windows 8:

:| :( 8( 8C

]]> By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2011/06/13/cant-beat-them-tax-them/comment-page-1/#comment-119986 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:58:02 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=49738#comment-119986 Maybe Windows 8 can. (sarcasm)

]]> By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2011/06/13/cant-beat-them-tax-them/comment-page-1/#comment-119985 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:49:58 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=49738#comment-119985 The phone shops would not get any return customers if they screwed them over by recommending Windows. Windows belongs even less on embedded devices than it does anywhere else.

It is important that phones work reliably, something Windows can’t deliver on. Other devices are even more critical. you can’t ctrl-alt-del a pacemaker or avionics.

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