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Story: Ballmer: 'I don't throw chairs'
Posted by: Magnus Grander (Friday 21 October 2005, 2:16 AM)
Well you better sell your stocks in M$ if you have any. I have talked to 1000 of developers around the world (mail) and 9 of 10 say they will not develop for it and/or not bye it.
The reason is simple. In Vista are dozens of drm protections and other things. So you can't even make a copy of your legalily byed CD/DVD. And that is only one function.
Further more to run vista you need a super computer. So get ready to spend money just to be able to run it.
So we can put it simple. The music industry did hijack the development of vista. Now nealy all customers are pissed of because of that so they are checking out the free option Linux....
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Story: Ballmer: 'I don't throw chairs'
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Looking at the MS stock price I think you should.... Anonymous -
Is ZDNet in any way obliged to publish a pair of s... Olav Petri
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Better than publishing constant news that on... Jon -
Will we be treated to the "Oh yes he does" article... Samuel, UK
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Well you better sell your stocks in M$ if you have... Magnus Grander -
Jon, get over it. Or at least get your facts strai... Arthur B.
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""People say 'I'm going to MSN you' in Holland and... Myles
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