The whole point of Open Source is that those limited and self serving things by everyone add up to make things better collectively. For example, adding Hyper-V and Azure support will allow Linux to get a foothold easily in Microsoft-only shops.
Ironically, it's Google that's facing antitrust issues by abusing FRAND standard patents for extortion on basic things like H.264 and WiFi.
Meanwhile Microsoft and Apple have made a public and binding declaration that they won't use FRAND patents for injunctions.
He's a shill. Read this story, which seems to be nothing more than rehashing a press release from CDW and Google.
http://www.zdnet.com/cdw-to-offer-enterprise-chromebook-support-7000010875/
Windows Phone is selling better than what the Google-shill SJVN would like you to believe. Around 7 million phones a quarter is not bad at all, especially with increasing every month and even outselling the iPhone in some countries.
http://wmpoweruser.com/nokias-5-6-m-q1-sales-means-about-7-million-windows-phones-sold-in-q1-2013-150-growth/
http://www.wpcentral.com/which-countries-windows-phone-outselling-iphone
http://wmpoweruser.com/microsoft-claims-a-more-than-20-smartphone-market-share-in-poland-and-mexico-says-nokia-is-getting-all-their-energy-right-now/
http://wmpoweruser.com/full-kantar-numbers-for-march-2013-shows-steady-windows-phone-progress-reaches-highest-sales-share-figure-so-far/
All Google needs to do is offer a commercial licence, for a small fee, to all Android OEM's that indemnifies them. This way if Microsoft has an issue with Android or Linux they can take on Google directly. But, we all know that would never happen because Microsoft clearly knows that Google would single handily invalidate all of their obvious, worthless and prior art ridden patents one by one.
That will not happen because Google can't protect itself(i.e the Motorola it bought which loses billions every year by the way because of making crap phones), how can it protect its partners? It's about to get bitchslapped for trying to abuse FRAND standard patents on H.264 and WiFi for extortion.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/06/eu-rules-googles-motorola-abused-patents-in-seeking-injunction-against-apple
http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/26/4271432/does-anyone-know-why-google-bought-motorola
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/technology/07iht-google07.html?_r=0
http://www.zdnet.com/in-microsoft-patent-spat-ruling-hints-that-google-grossly-overpaid-for-motorola-7000014582/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-29/motorola-buy-delivers-google-more-heartbreak-than-help.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-slapped-google-around-in-court-and-its-becoming-clear-google-overpaid-for-motorola-2013-4
It's approaching a million sales after being on sale only in a few countries, that isn't so bad.
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The GP is posting because trolls like yourself are saying it isn't done. Seems a fairly direct cause and effect to me.
Trolls? The issue is not whether it is or isn't done. It's about the right tool for the job. There are a lot of people who can do amazing things with MS Paint, but that doesn't mean that people should replace Photoshop with it.
http://mytechquest.com/windows/amazing-ms-paint-pictures/
Show that to a Photoshop user and tell them to use Paint instead and watch yourself get laughed out the room. Just because you can do something with something doesn't mean you should.
The fact that you have to tell us this story is very telling and shows that it's not a natural thing to do.
Do you ever see people tell a tale about how they used their laptop to type a document?
Another typical short sighted anti-MS karmawhoring Slashdot post while whoring Google Docs which Google controls and can take away at moment's notice.
http://ehsanakhgari.org/blog/2012-04-13/how-i-lost-access-my-google-account-today
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4013799
Meanwhile, in the real world, Office is making record revenues.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/20/technology/microsoft_earnings/index.htm
Under the standard cell service contract, they continue charging the higher monthly rate even after the contract expires.
On TMobile, once your device is paid off, the monthly fee is reduced by the amount you were paying for the phone.
You're missing the point. This fee is not assessed for contractors working for Microsoft on Microsoft projects but who are working on the contractors premises. If Microsoft were to remove this fee, it won't be fair to contractors who have people working in their own offices.
Examples?
What "truth about that evil empire" is getting modded down?
If you think Microsoft is astroturfing this site with its dying readership(thanks to chasing away rational people and posting bullshit stories), you're delusional.
The only thing unusual here is that
Unusual? Slashdot will post any garbage if it's anti-Microsoft.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/16/2259257
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/02/oh-the-humanity-windows-7s-draconian-drm/
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/13/03/17/1914209/microsoft-to-abandon-windows-phone
No wonder the site is basically dying leaving only zealots as people with half a clue leave the site.
Windows has a bigger install base than Android, and PCs are far more lucrative target than a weak phone with a weak data connection.
Android malware is also almost exclusively socially engineered, rather than exploiting OS flaws. The same can't be said for Windows.
What OS flaws? Reference? The vast majority of Windows malware is through downloads, like fake codecs.
Whatever happened to the folks who claimed in +5 insightful posts that Linux has better security because of the superior Unix architecture? And that Windows malware, spyware, viruses and etc. were because of the crappy Windows code and not just because of popularity?
As Macs grow more popular, so does the malware targeting it. And Android has a huge malware problem. Perhaps those posts were wrong?
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