Microsoft's mantra is well known. Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish as first introduced in the United States v. Microsoft antitrust trial when the vice president of Intel, Steven McGeady, testified that Microsoft vice president Paul Maritz used the phrase in a 1995 meeting with Intel to describe Microsoft's strategy toward Netscape, Java, and the Internet. Same old evil Microsoft.

Simply vote with you're wallet. When we refuse to buy that repackaged sequel goo the companies will respond by giving in to our demands or see their precious green evaporate in their quarterly earnings statement. But I fear there are too many who will blindly bite on the company hype line...but wait there's more! What would it hurt to not purchase say Halo x?

Everyone knows M$ has been caught more than once copying functionality of other OSs and suspected many more times. You think they might actually create something now?

The edge of our universe is the cell membrane, which is why it registers as background radiation. Other galaxies are just atoms that make our cell composition up. We are nothing more than part of a larger organism. You know that feeling you get when you feel like you are under a microsocpe? Maybe you are...