"the very significant number of users" and "many (most) of us" - you have no evidence for these statements. It is a fact that most users are saying...
Another grammar faux pas is the improper use of "you". When sitting down down in a restaurant, for example, I get cringe when the waitress...
And NOW, folks, for Canonical's next trick...
Kubuntu is late.
Here's a pencil. Draw your own conclusions.
cf.:...
@kevinmchapman. The discussion here reflects the very significant number of users who really do like the traditional menu system and who wish to...
Er, no... It is an efficient means of finding the application/file/setting you need in one place. The icons are a simply a fallback for when you...
Isn't the provision of a text based search an admission by the developers that the mass of icons approach does not work? I don't need to use a...
"Unity and GNOME 3 both abandon the old text-based cascading menus in favour of a graphical icon-driven system."
Point truly missed. Both use a...
whs001 - Thank you, I'm glad you liked the article.
I absolutely agree with you on your first point. I should perhaps have made it clearer that...
If we allow corporate interest to dictate the way our government circumvents due process against foreign entities then we should accept the same...
I totally dislike pirating of works, I fear that artists will be deterred from creating works if they think that they are going to get ripped off....
How dare film makers, artists or anybody that invests in creativity stop us pirating their works for free. I want to be able to walk into my local...
@GrueMaster. I prefer horses for courses rather than one size fits all. I, and I suspect most other computer users, do not really wish to have...
The product that scares me every time I have to use it is the Office 2007 version of Excel.
The first bug that I found was applying the median...
Nice review and very informative. One thing I'd like to add (in reply to whs001's 1st question), the main reason to have the same interface from...
I'be been using Mint 12 since the RC came out, and I am far more happy with the Cinnamon, the Mate, and, yes (with extensions), theGnome 3...
Excellent article. One small correction, though--although a fresh installation of Linux Mint 12 will, indeed, provide the user with a version of...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
For Gnome 2 die-hards, it is possible to add icons to the bottom panel (or top top panel, if you prefer) which provide the exact Gnome 2...
Your comments would seem pretty naive and immature. Your 'solution' appears to be, "gee, let's all just give in to the hackers and give them...
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How much of that growth is due to default settings in MSIE? Anti-trust law are going to be against MS again in this case. Nothing to see here. Just another example of leveraging the desktop monopoly to break into another market where it has been unable to compete on technical merits.
Er, no. By your logic that would mean Microsoft somehow got 30% more people to use IE with default settings. Which hasn't happened. Weren't you the guy who absurdly said MS doesn't recognise the WebDAV standard? You might be more comfortable on Slashdot...
Olav, stop!
You make a product, as long as it is not illegal or unlawful, default settings are yours.
As long as users can CHANGE the default settings, what is anti-competitive about that?
Why not ask YHOO & GOOG to make MSN the default search engine for their toolbars? And while you are at it, ask Opera & Firefox to make MSN search their default as well?
John O.! It is illegal to use one monopoly to gain a monopoly in a new market. MS has been found guilty, though not punished, in both the EU and the US of abusing its desktop monopoly. In this case the case of Netscape is most relevant.
MS was handed a monopoly on desktop operating systems by IBM. The monopoly status of MS-DOS was used to launch Windows into the same position. Then MS used (illegally leveraged) it's desktop monopoly to enter the browser market, then dominated by Netscape, and establish a monopoly there. That's all fact. Don't argue with me. Go argue with the federal courts and the US Department of Justice.
Now MS is wanting to break into the search engine market for some time. Google dominates. However, by setting the default settings for MSIE to point to their own service which is gunning for Google, that's an example of abusing an existing monopoly.
Sorry, but that's how it is.