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I dunno dude, I think Linux made some serious cash this past quarter. It's pretty expensive compared to Vista, but I think it's worth it to be able to use OS X on a PC. I mean, it's not exactly OS X, but I heard Linus Torvalds is the same guy who made OS X. Once I save up enough money, I'm going to buy Linux everything for my PC. Operating system, keyboard, mouse, display...the whole kit 'n caboodle. I would just stick with my Microsoft®© products but I heard Microsoft deliberately put computer chips into all of their hardware products so it wouldn't work with Linux. Does anybody know if this is true or if it's just a rumor?
I'm sure he was being facetious.
. Either way, big kudos to Microsoft. My portfolio loves you.
I could try to continue speaking to you, but if I go any further than this, the right side of my brain will shrivel up and dry into a vacuous grey husk and the left side of my brain, drunk with double the requisite operational amount of blood (and power) stolen from its freshly deceased counterpart, will turn its attentions towards grander schemes and systematically rebel against my vital organs. It would start small, maybe with the pancreas, and upon finding success dispatching such an impotent foe, it would discover a newfound lust for conflict and escalate its ambitions higher and higher up the chain until it has vanquished all of its perceived foes but my lungs and my heart. And the left side of my brain would stand before my lungs and my heart impudently - its visage marred by its terrible misdeeds, the veins to which it owes its continued existence knotted and gnarled - and my lungs and heart would understand mutually, without communication, the sacrifice that must be made and simultaneously deprive the terrible left side of my brain of both its oxygen as well as its plasma...and the left side of my brain would pulse in horror as it found itself throbbing pathetically in rebellion of the inevitable ebb of life from its form, and I would collapse at my keyboard, wholly unaware of the sacrifice made by my more noble organs to prevent the left side of my brain from attempting to engage somebody named "L33t Masta" in an e-argument.
Built on *nix though... He wasn't entirely wrong.
Now that is some strong profit...That's the thing I was thinking about today. Apple advertises the death out of their machines. How many Windows commercials have you seen?now we just need a mac vs a pc commercial firing back at the mac dude...
Security holes... And with all the reports and such coming out- Apple is one of the worst out there on the market for speed in actually patching their holes!
. I imported a Zune to canada so I wouldn't have to use an iPod. It's features attracted me more. Bigger screen especially. And what people don't understand is that Microsoft has to be doing something right for them to continue to be successful.So rather than post something PRODUCTIVE you chose to post a long winded speech about how I just won. Alright.
I got the RROD too but Microsoft was nice enough to repair it for free
They just have better products than the competition. That's the beauty of an open market
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saaayyy.. speaking of Xboxes and Microsoft.
I wonder if it occured to the Apple camp that they haven't a console to call their own
This really proves that Microsoft in it's creation of Windows truly brought computing to the masses. In the old school days it was command line 101 and for a long time into the ms-dos days until Windows rolled around. Not until Windows 3.0 or 3.1 did people start to catch on that this is not only an OS, but had an appealing facade that people could try and relate to with respect to actually running a computer and not feel like a n00b. It took time, but Microsoft for the most part got it right with Windows. Once Windows 95 hit the shelves the doors blew wide open and computing for the masses truly took off. Think about it, Microsoft has created a computing environment that the average joe user can use with minimal effort and in a matter of a few weeks find themselves immersed in that medium. This is why Microsoft is king of the hill and Apple has to resort to goofy commercials to get people to come over to their neck of the computing woods.
Hell, any of you remember when people were waiting in long lines at midnight for Windows 95? You don't see the effete Apple masses doing that. I take that back. It happened to the iPhone, 12 years later, but it happened
I would like to set something straight here. Neither Windows 3.0, 3.1 nor 3.11 were operating systems. They were nothing more than graphical front ends loaded from DOS. None of previous iterations of Windows were operating systems either. The first actual graphical OS from MS was Windows 95 (or possibly NT 3.51 as I don't actually have any experience at all with it).
I will not bash Windows 95 because it was for the most part revolutionary in regards to MS's previous OSes. Instead of being the glorified GUI menu program Windows 3.1 was, Windows 95 was actually a complete operating system. It offered much more than any previous version of Windows. I won't say it was actually easier to use than 3.1, but it was much more powerful.
I don't necessarily see Windows 95 being a big turning point for personal computing. Trust me, it wasn't the user interface that kept a lot of people from using computers, it was the price of the total system. Computer hardware today is literally dirt cheap compared to what it was ten or more years ago. Price has pushed adoption. It just happens that MS was the most used OS provider by this time.
You can thank Apple for keeping their system closed and proprietary and IBM for opening up their platform for allowing MS to become as big as it has. IBM PCs and clones paved the way for MS to be put on so many systems.
I won't give MS credit like others. Without hardware, your software is worthless. MS just happened to support the platform which took off and grew exponentially. As the initial leader MS has been able to keep the position through inertia as much as innovation.
I will not call all MS products crap, but I won't praise them for everything either.
s/want/are forced to buy/
also, their products are so well designed that >30% of all Xbox360 .... hmm, you know why it's called 360?
from the store to you to the store ... it does a repair 360 every month
and well Windows7 due out... maybe in 18months and Vista only having 10% marketshare....
What MS counts as a sale doesn't necessarily transfer to product being used. Its called the MS-tax for a reason *cough* My IT having stacks of Vista discs but have only just rolled out XP *cough* sales of Vista \o/
but yer they report a profit
Not everyone is able or has time to build their own computer. Some people (especially businesses) need the support that buying a Pre-built offers.
what needs? Be specific.