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Story: Microsoft hits back at Opera antitrust claims

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Hey 1000044543!

What's it tell you about MS? With all those billions and billions and billions, why can't they have gotten it right after all these years or is it all part of their perpetual incremental revenue stream plan? I thought MS employed some of the greatest minds known to computing! Is anyone there responsible? What if it was a child sitting at the computer when the deluge began? What if it affected the poor little child's mind forever?

MS created the desktop computer, I'll give them that! But to abandon the completion of the system to the extent they have is beyond me. I just don't get it? Perhaps they've lost their way? Perhaps they're too busy chasing the competition rather than leading? Or perhaps they've just become too big, too complex or too complacent and self assured to give a damn?

Whatever the case, what's it mean for the future of MS operating PC's throughout the planet?

I ask you this: If a company built a road network that continually collapsed or a electricity company sent power to the wrong home or business, or a telco mistakenly re-directed all calls to the wrong people or worse still, allowed the kind of content you received to flood our communications - all hell would break loose! There HAS to be some level of responsibility for inculcating practically the entire world with an operating system that is rife with problems and may actually be a threat to the future? What if something were to occur where most of the computers in the world collapsed? Who would be responsible? Is there some impartial technically competent industry body that conducts a threat analysis on software systems that reach a particular crital mass in order to determine what to do should a major event occur? Does anyone actually know the consequences of a global software collapse? Hey, I'm not into the doom and gloom apocalyptic scenarios by any stretch of the imagination, its just that the more I think about it...well...hey...shouldn't you require some kind of license to 'operate' a software system that reaches a state of ubiquity?

TFD

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