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Comment Sell cheaper! (Score 1) 485

Microsoft!!!!!!! Please sell Windows 7 at $29.95!!!!!!!!! Wake up and smell the coffee! 2bit geeks like me are already dual booting Ubuntu and Windows. I have accounts at slashdot and digg so I am geeky enough not to buy music or porn and know just enough to build a website and create software with free stuff! SO WHY THE H would I pay big $ bill for an OS??? The real world is this: 20 year olds that I know think that anyone that builds a website is working for Microsoft (not kidding). Microsoft is so generic that it is pitiful. These people point at the tallest building in a city and say that it is Microsoft. Now back to my point: If you charge $X00.00 dollars for Window Heaven, then why would I buy and download it when I already have what it does on my system? If you charge something simple like $20 bucks or so (like drug dealers know to do) then you will have a sell and I may pass the advice to my not a clue friends that they can get this system that works. Enough said!

Comment Microsoft! The incompatible company! (Score 2, Insightful) 258

In 80's and 90's everyone was like "get a compatible" meaning get a PC with DOS or Windows. Now it seems like Microsoft is the incompatible company! Examples: Internet Explorer not standards compliant, Vista not compatible with many business applications that ran well on XP, MS Office not supporting ODF... Does this mean that Microsoft is going down the same path as Commodore and OS/2?
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Submission + - School district recommends parents buy MSOffice 07

WS Nick writes: Batavia school district (Illinois) is recommending that parents of high school students upgrade their home computers to Microsoft Office 2007. Why not use one of the free alternatives and relieve parents of some of the financial burden they face to buy all the stuff for their children the school says? I guess Microsoft's profits is more important to the school district.
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Submission + - Why Microsoft Will Never Make .NET Truly Portable

Michelle Meyers writes: Just days before Microsoft claimed to be making parts of the .NET CLR "available" to other platforms, NeoSmart Technologies had published an article bemoaning and blasting Microsoft's abuse of it's developers (developers, developers!) by pretending .NET was a true cross-platform framework when they're doing everything in their power to stop it from being just that.

Of interest is NeoSmart's analysis of how Microsoft has no problem making certain portions of .NET available to Mac users — just so long as its distributed under an "open source" license that forbids any and all use of the code except for educational purposes — yet are terrified of the very thought of .NET being available to *nix users, even if that's to the benefit of .NET developers everwhere. Even more interesting is one of the comments on that article linking to legal documents in which Microsoft employees discuss the (im)possibility of creating a cross-platform code and UI framework, years before the .NET project even started!

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