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Pure junk campaign going on here.
I just hope I can get my hands in a fresh copy of Vista before EU bureaucrats screw everything up...
It?s quite criminal to have a closed platform (apple, adobe, sun), where your developers are forced to wait at your feet for releases. At least Microsoft has delivered WPF as promised. Flash?s file format is completely locked. Once you start innovating anything using flash the Adobe attorneys come knocking on your door... Apple?s iPhone doesn?t let developers create a single app for it? How is that not creating a monopoly on audio player/phones?
Microsoft has always let companies create new applications for windows mobile, windows vista, and any platform that Microsoft uses. These other companies require a blank check for any kind of platform development.
Flash still uses ActionScript- Flex is still lacking a client side rendering framework like WPF.
WPF is also cross platform (it runs in Safari and soon on Linux), which addresses that stupid claim about not supporting other operating systems!
As for HTML, any reasonable developer would tell you that HTML sucks. How much innovation has occurred with HTML over the past 10 years? Someone coins the term "Ajax" and the kids think there's something new. Ajax has been around since the advent of the internet.
XAML provides a unified "OPEN" framework for developing UI. Anyone can write tools that produce XAML. XAML prepares us for the future where all things media are combined "Video, Audio, 3D, animation, and text"... Something that HTML can't do. HTML limits creativity and makes designers and developers create the same applications, same UIs, over and over and over. PLEASE DO REPLACE HTML!!! The world would be so much better if the UI and code actually did what you told it to and didn?t act different on every ?UI Parser ?? out there.
Microsoft breaks the status quo and the money hungry, innovation failures are riding the back of the visionaries. Pick up the slack, guys!
Microsoft can't continue funding every failed company out there just because these companies are coming up short on talent.
People bash MS for bloatware, but in my experience of using computers every day since Win 95 / Office 95, Adobe is the worst single software manufacturer in the world, and if I could, I would uninstall EVERYTHING of theirs...I wish people would quit accepting Flash ads or using .pdf for anything just to put their crappy company out of business. I mean, after all this time, can't Sim and Adobe write a program that goes away when closed, loads startup programs without telling you, or slowing down a computer to a crawl? My cable modem is normally like changing channels on the TV, but once Java or Adobe start up, it's like dial up.
Maybe this isn't as technical as KosherO's post, but it is my feeling on the (un)usability of a couple of the whiny losers who refuse to innovate. I would be happy to support MS in any trial that saw them having put the Sun's and Adobe's out of business as to how they made my life better and happier. Face it Sun / Adobe / anyone else in this crowd, crying to the EU because you've had 5 years to try and catch up and can't hardly compete with Windows XP's included features, is just a sign of pure stupidity.
MSFT haters want it both ways.
There's a big difference.
These complaints are not about the new OS and how it works or doesn't work. These complaints are because MS designs the OS specifically so that it DOESN'T work with certain programs because they want to keep those programs out of a market that they are trying to get a dominant position in. MS has been convicted, in court by judges, multiple times, of doing exactly this. So small companies have a right to complain when they do it AGAIN.
Shame on you Bill Gates!
"They said a so-called "open XML" platform file format, known as OOXML, is designed to run seamlessly only on the Microsoft Office platform."
Perhaps they haven't been following the ECMA stadardization of OOXML. A few seconds of web searching would have saved them quite a lot of embarrasment!
http://www.ecma-international.org/news/PressReleases/PR_TC45_Dec2006.htm
(HINT: the "E" in ECMA stands for European!)
"They said a so-called "open XML" platform file format, known as OOXML, is designed to run seamlessly only on the Microsoft Office platform."
Perhaps they haven't been following the ECMA stadardization of OOXML. A few seconds of web searching would have saved them quite a lot of embarrasment!
http://www.ecma-international.org/news/PressReleases/PR_TC45_Dec2006.htm
(HINT: the "E" in ECMA stands for European!)
Go ahead and think what you want but in the end, Microsoft is still going to be cross platform, XML driven, pushing the coolest and the newest, something we all strive for.
If you don't like the fact that they can innovate and you can't, stay out the kitchen.
Cross platform:
http://www.thomasgoddard.com/Home/tabid/73/EntryID/3/Default.aspx
"The Linux Legal Defense Fund has served mostly as a deterrent to lawsuits against Linux, although "a handful of folks have tapped the fund," says Linux Foundation legal counsel Diane Peters, formerly the OSDL's legal counsel. Peters wouldn't provide details about who's received legal defense funding or how much had been issued."
Someone needs to spank these money hungry attorneys. When creativity is destroyed by bureaucracy then all things will not be equal.
ANd you're right, if Applpe had 90% of the market, we'd be ******** about them instead. The thing is, the complaints arent about the quality of the software or what it can and cannot do. The complaints are about MS witholding critical information to key pleyers voluntarely in order to keep these players out. And that is illegal. Period.
I'd argue that RSS is the ugliest standard I have ever seen for XML. Totally loosly typed and entirely nasty for consumption, yet people support it.
Apple or Harvard, it doesn't matter, if you can't push the envelope and don't have the talent to make something that competes in the long haul then you are in the wrong business.
There's the old saying "Only the strong will survive". There's also the old saying "If you can't beat them, join em'"
It doesn't matter how much money in development you spend, or how good your product is, if the company that owns 95% of the computers that could run it make it impossible to do so.
THAT's the fundamental problem.
Nothing to do with quality. Everything to do with access.
Windows mobile? Same features only there is a great Windows Mobile SDK for it.
The old saying "DOS ain't done until Lotus won't run" was never true and it still isn't true today.
Only the oblivious can't see the simple fact that MS provides the tools and information for people to customize their software and utilize their software. In fact MS has done the best job of providing both the information and tools for a very long time, that's the real reason why most people have MS software. The simple fact that more applications are available for Windows has driven it's success and if you think MS isn't aware of that you've not listened as MS has called for developers to support it latest releases of whatever it's produced and reached out to make sure those developers are well supported.
The fundamental problem is that people like you can't ever seem to see the obvious facts about why MS succeeded and why they continue to succeed even though people like you have naysaying them for more than a decade.
This same crap was floating around when the current version of Windows was 3.1 and the alternative OS that was the darling of the naysayer's club was OS/2.
Some of those included in a standard that they are trying to make International.
I wonder...
And this has absolutely nothing to do with the GPL. Doesn;\'t even belong here.
GPL lives for this stuff...
And for all the innovation claims, one just has to look at Vista and compare it to OSX and Linux and see how innovative it is.
Look at c# and .net, it is just a bad, unsafe copy of Java.
I have to wonder how much MS pays people to spend their days lying about one of the most corrupt and harmful companies in the world.
Show me 1 cent gates has given away that was not tied to a press release. Gates is no philanthropist, it is just tax deductible marketing and in some cases just another cost to attempting to crush F/OSS(His trip to India a while back is a prime example). Besides, his money is ill gotten. Would you cheer on a bank robber that gave a small percentage of his loot to the poor?
Put yourself on his shoe, if you were a billionaire like Gates, what would you have done to your community, to the humanity? I doubt you would be generous as he is.
Can you name the muti-millionaires out there would donate half of their wealth and dedicate to help the poor, and the ill?
It's a shame to bash someone unless you yourself have done it at the first place. Yep, yep. I don't have that much money, but you have your feet and hands, right?
Put yourself on his shoe, if you were a billionaire like Gates, what would you have done to your community, to the humanity? I doubt you would be generous as he is.
Can you name the muti-millionaires out there would donate half of their wealth and dedicate to help the poor, and the ill?
It's a shame to bash someone unless you yourself have done it at the first place. Yep, yep. I don't have that much money, but you have your feet and hands, right?
- Why...
- by Commander_Spock January 27, 2007 1:09 PM PST
- ... attack Vista as illegal under EU rules" and not at an institution such as the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) where there may be more global implications for all parties concerned as well as the International Organisation for Standardisation having already approved the the Open Office Standards Format (ODF) which was proposed by the OASIS Group. The real issue here it is believed is as simple this; if Microsoft cannot lead when it comes to the "international" market place then it has no other alternative but to follow!
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