Corcaigh Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Most people's problem with Microsoft is that it is an American company. Which is a shame...... Yeah, the DoJ hates America :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Most people's problem with Microsoft is that it is an American company. Which is a shame...... Yeah, the DoJ hates America :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenaa Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 I'm pretty sure this is why people hate Microsoft: It's not like people are flocking to foreign-made operating systems. Microsoft haters go to Apple (an American company) or Linux (not really a company and not really tied to a particular country, but IBM and Sun and Red Hat are all American). You do realize that 99.9% of all bluescreens occur because driver vendors write crappy code? It has nothing to do with the OS. It has to do with drivers violating memory management principals in almost all cases. Turn Software Vendors loose in writing drivers for Macs and you'd have the same problem. And that problem is greatly reduced in Vista due to tighter controls on how drivers are allowed to be written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenaa Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 I'm pretty sure this is why people hate Microsoft: It's not like people are flocking to foreign-made operating systems. Microsoft haters go to Apple (an American company) or Linux (not really a company and not really tied to a particular country, but IBM and Sun and Red Hat are all American). You do realize that 99.9% of all bluescreens occur because driver vendors write crappy code? It has nothing to do with the OS. It has to do with drivers violating memory management principals in almost all cases. Turn Software Vendors loose in writing drivers for Macs and you'd have the same problem. And that problem is greatly reduced in Vista due to tighter controls on how drivers are allowed to be written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enter Apotheosis Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 I've read most versions of Linux are free, I'm just too lazy to learn it. You don't need to learn anything to use certain distributions of Linux, it can be awfully straight forward if all you're seeking is basic proficiency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enter Apotheosis Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 I've read most versions of Linux are free, I'm just too lazy to learn it. You don't need to learn anything to use certain distributions of Linux, it can be awfully straight forward if all you're seeking is basic proficiency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Where is the hate for Airbus? Sony? Toshiba? What have they been convicted of? How many monopoly products have they recently changed, specifically for the purpose of preventing a competitor's product, )which is already on the market and working with their product), from working with their product? How many of their vendors have been told "If you sell (competitor's product), we're going to raise the price we'll charge you for our product"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Where is the hate for Airbus? Sony? Toshiba? What have they been convicted of? How many monopoly products have they recently changed, specifically for the purpose of preventing a competitor's product, )which is already on the market and working with their product), from working with their product? How many of their vendors have been told "If you sell (competitor's product), we're going to raise the price we'll charge you for our product"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 OEM is your friend if you are building systems. You don't need the retail. What do you need a retail copy for? Course, last time I checked, if you're installing it on a computer you own, then you're not allowed to use OEM. Only if you're installing it on a system which you're going to sell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 OEM is your friend if you are building systems. You don't need the retail. What do you need a retail copy for? Course, last time I checked, if you're installing it on a computer you own, then you're not allowed to use OEM. Only if you're installing it on a system which you're going to sell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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