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John Dvorak's Eight Signs MS is Dead in the Water 711

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 03, 2006 @03:08PM from the well-we're-all-obsessed-with-google dept.

j79 writes "John Dvorak has written an opinion piece on why he believes Microsoft is dead in the water. He discusses Vista, Office 2007, MSN and MSN search, the Xbox 360, Pad-based computing, .Net, and Microsoft's obsession with Google. "

Linux Snobs, The Real Barriers to Entry 1347

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 19, 2006 @09:24AM from the you-all-know-them dept.

McSnarf writes "It's not Windows. It's not distro wars. Sometimes it's just the arrogant attitude that keeps people from switching from Windows. 'As I spoke to newbies, one Windows user who wanted to learn about Linux shared the encouraging and constructive note (not) he received from one of the project members. The responding note read: "Hi jackass, RTFM and stop wasting our time trying to help you children learn.""

Comment I envy these days. (Score 1) 181

by Power Everywhere on Thursday October 28, 2004 @01:59PM (#10655845) Attached to: Changing Use of Internet?

When I first started on the Internet, it consisted of academic nerds, computer scientists, a very small handful of professionals (doctors, lawyers, clergy, etc.) and system administrators. Pretty bland.

Nowadays with the great Mass on the 'net things are much more entertaining.

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