M$ is never going to play nice, the sooner you realize this the less time you will waste. They screwed the IBM develop team with an inferior API that their own developers hated. They bastardized Java to screw Sun. They "contributed to" WISE many moons ago to screw all of Unix. How many times to you have to see other "partners" get treated like pawns and one night stands before you get the picture? To quote an internal memo,

all through this presentation previously I talked about how youre using the pawns [developers] youre going to screw them if they dont do what they want, and da-da-dah. You cant let them feel like that. If they feel like that, youve lost from the beginning. Its like youre going out with a girl; forgive me ... it goes the other way also. Youre going out with a girl, what you really want to do is have a deep, close and intimate relationship, at least for one night. And, you know, you just cant let her feel like that, because if you do, it aint going to happen, right. So you have to talk long term and white picket fence and all these other wonderful things, or else youre never going to get what youre really looking for.

Welcome to the back seat of Bill Gate's limo, Apple. NotNet is the flimsiest of condoms, I hope you've got better protection than that, but you really should not be in this situation to begin with.

Use gnash and multiple tabs. You would be surprised at how fast the web is when you ignore the most obnoxious spam and let page 2, 3, 4, and 5 load while you read page1. Fast flip is firmly aimed at people with browsers that suck. Google would do better to encourage people to leave the Windows world.

Please contribute to efforts to eliminate software patents, they are a threat to software and business freedom.

Anyone who thinks patents can ever protect gnu/linux, you have been sorely mislead. Where was OIN when M$ was stomping on TomTom and that NAS company? Sitting on their hands, that's where. Patents, as they exist, will always harm small companies who are at the mercy of giant like M$, IBM and other hoarders. Having to beg big companies not to sue you is not software freedom. Even the giants are threatened by patent trolls now.

Business method patents are not capitalism, it's government protected business monopolies. This is something the US founding fathers hated with a passion. Things are even worse than the king's fiat because government has been less than competent about establishing the winners and losers besides themselves. 20 years ago, people would have called it Communism and pointed to failures in the USSR. Biski can not eliminate softare and business method patents soon enough.

This bug has been added to the Vista Failure Log. I thought that OS was over, but it keeps giving. I have also added this flaw to the Windows 7 Failure Log, which is as much a continuation of the Vista Failure Log as Windows 7 is a continuation of Vista.

I double plus good your plus and raise you a failed company, like everyone else says.

How many beers is this worth? I have not seen Windows 7 and don't think I will. Some people like "more beer". I prefer "less beer".

Yes, this article is a troll, typical of the Slog Against Google [2]. I'd prefer them to have switched to Kontact on GNU/Linux, but I would not expect the transition to that or Google in less than a year.

M$ people have a lot of never to complain, considering how difficult it is to "upgrade" any of their junk. Vista Failure springs to mind, but so do the number of companies still using IE 6, ancient versions of Outlook and Office. Given the slow speed of transition to any new M$ program, we can and should conclude that they are all failures before we judge Google Docs and Gmail a failure because one highly political institution has not made the transition overnight.

Yes, I said that. I realized that Google does not search or index "M$". Consider it a bug, but I'll work around that, just for you. It is easier for me to type M$ than Microsoft, but Google is unwilling or unable to serve that lampoon. Sweet dreams, anonymous astroturfer.

It's nice to see this item Slashdotted but why wait so long to do it?

Roy Schestowitz has some great investigative background for this using Comes vs Microsoft, leaked documents and executive tracking. He has the M$ attack on GNU/Linux at Walmart, also provided here, and OEM documents describing exactly how M$ bribes them to "recommend Windows". It would be nice to see all of this dirty laundry hung out to dry.

In many cultures, showing someone your foot is a grave insult and we can be sure that no one wants to put their thumbs where someone else has put their bare feet. It's an inconvenient undignified mark of servility to take your shoes off as anyone who's flown in the land of the free and home of the brave knows. So, the man should have offered his penis. I think that would get the point across. Fingerprint scanners are an easy to fool waste of everyone's time and dignity.