235 Patents?
I do so hope that the marketing guys at Microsoft will soon take the legal-eagles by the ear out back of the wood shed and whip their collective asses until they are bright red.
Boy oh boy what a stupid move on the part of Microsoft.
Business by intimidation. That smacks of the kind of monolithic totalitarian states that brought so much love like Stalinist Communist Russia or our favorite despot Idi Amin.
So, lets enumerate...
- Microsoft uses "drug dealer" tactics to addict poverty stricken users.
- Microsoft uses threats and intimidation - not unlike some dictators.
- ???
After all the crap they've stolen to build out Windows. Do you remember when Windows was simply Windows? No taskbar... until they 'borrowed it' from the Mac for Windows 95.
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No one likes a bully. No one.
I just recently loaded an instance of Windows 3.11 from 7 1.44 diskettes. I had forgotten what a simple and clean windowing system could be. (Guess I shouldn't mention BSODs.) And would you believe the day before that I had to load a MS-DOS 6.11 system to do a recovery on a character based program. Those were the good old days.
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