Microsoft is no longer the monopoly it once was.

That could be the case but this is part of a agreement that was settled because of the period they had a monopoly...

Furthermore, Apple is doing far more egrarious violations.

I personally don't see where, but if you have a valid complaint put your money where your mouth is an fill a complaint... . But something tells me it is more talk... .

What about the fact that Apple refused to convert to microUSB with the new iPhone 5. Where is there fine.

What about the fact that you clearly don't know the European directive regarding micro usb. They are as compliant as there is a Micro USB adapter. The European directive doesn't state that every phone manufacturer needs to convert to micro usb but give the possibility of reusing micro usb adapters (through adapters, etc) So it would be stupid to fine a company because they are in compliance.

At least Microsoft lets me install an alternative browser

What the f*ck are you smoking ? On OS X you can install chrome, firefox, opera, safari, ... .

Because of the bigger range of quality apps to be honest.

And btw I'm an android developer but my main tablet for example is still an iPad. The thing that harms andriod seriously is fragmentation, bad documentation (quality, not quantity) , less strictness which results that a lot of hw companies are sloppy, weak support for older devices, no really good design guidelines,... . For me it is the Drupal of the mobile world. Not a bad platform, but it sometimes drives me nuts.

People that say things like "they think the software is better... And are greatly mistaken" have never used the two platforms on a daily basis. Android is slowly getting there, but the really big problem is that a lot of devices are still suck on 2.3 gingerbread. It would be nice if android hw companies would support their older devices as Apple does with older hardware. An iPad 1 being stuck on iOS 5 is nothing in comparison with a lot of android situations. And the number of normal people (non geeks) that root their phone is zero to none.

To be honest with Android I have the feeling that a lot of love gets into the advertisment or google services part of the os, but it lacks in the other departements. The Android API (especially the older versions) sometimes amazes me in stupidity.

I'm not particularly interested in streaming video about games, but seeing the popularity (also regarding viewers) in these services I won't say that nobody wants to watch these kind of video.

Like the xbox ? The fact that microsoft "freed" gaming from the windows desktop, resulted that I could say my windows box farewell and still game :)

http://www.veber.co.uk/ & pobox.co.uk

This hasn't been an issue since then because the python.co.uk domain has, for most of its life, just forwarded its traffic on to the parent companies, veber.co.uk and pobox.co.uk. Unfortunately, Veber has decided that they want to start using the name "Python" for their server products.

Seems like a cheap way to abuse the popularity of python to try to sell their own products. This is a company that I surely will ignore if they come in my path, don't like that kind of shenanigans.

The lack of x acceleration or progress don't surprise me on this board. People that are smart enough to write something meaningfull, can pierce the whole "open source" bubble.

At first I was a big fan of thx project, open source drivers, the education pov, ... But after open source shim drivers, the hostilty against other platforms , the constant barrage of slashvertisments , the negative attitude when somebody dares to be critical,... That is not the case anymore.

Maybe you should ask that question to the organisations that trained him. It wouldn't surprise me that the whole psychological warfare is something that he has picked up. You guys do live in a country that proudly can put their name with nord korea, china,etc regarding torture and other pretty things in "war".

Simple... If Facebook has the guts to do it. Turn all of Facebook off.

The problem is that all the facebooks or Google's of this world, has patents them-self and are part of the problem. They could the thing they do in a hear beat (and it isn't the first time that I see this mentioned) but they would cut in their own skin.

As described in the book "opening the xbox", it worked on Bill Gates nerves that sony was to powerfull in the living room and it could use its weight to influence what became new standards in the living room. Look at the DVD for example how the ps2 accelerated the adoption of this format. Microsoft dream is about Microsoft everywhere

The same thing happend with blu ray that totally destroyed microsoft hd dvd push. The xbox never has been about gaming and I'm even sure that for the next xbox the focus will be also bigger on non gaming capabilities.

The irony of the whole thing is that the xbox seriously weakend their windows platform as it weakened the argument "I need windows because I want to game"

Wordpress is popular because of the lamp stack. Regardless of personal feelings against a lamp setup, but if the goal is to be the "wordpress" of discussion software I will say good luck wit that ! I think the fact that it is written in ROR, will make this a very hard goal to reach.

It sometimes baffles me how clueless some people are working in IT as "manager". Since when aren't you allowed to write an importer for an ini file that is publicly availabe. That ini file wasn't even written by piriform.

I think this is a case of a manger that wants to get good points from the upperhand, not knowing how ridiculous her/his requests are.

What? The digital copies of games are usually priced lower than their disc-copy retail counterparts.

In the rest of the world (I presume you are American) Steam is ridiculous expensive sometimes as they do the 1$ = 1€ thing. The only times steam is cheap is in sales, when you buy a steamwork games on amazon.co.uk (I have had times that it was 80% cheaper !) , GMG, etc.

Maybe this a local thing but the nutrition facts are printed on the mcdonald packages here in Belgium. That is the same for the meals of the french Quick.

As opposed to american companies that getting subsidised by overpriced military contracts...

Have you tried talking with Gimp developers ? They are arrogant and they are so hard trying for gimp not to become "photoshop" , that it isn't funny. It doesn't surprise me one bit that they have such a hard time to find developers who want to contribute code...