New developments, details in Microsoft Word ban

Quoting:TWO OF THE VOLE'S closest mates have rushed to its defence and will call for postponing an injunction blocking the sale of Microsoft Word. ... Dell also claimed that blocking sales of Microsoft Word would hurt the public interest, but we rather think that would be a public service instead. µ

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1531734/dell-hp-rus...

"hurt the public interest"

hahahahaha

More like hurt their bottom line.

Wait a minute..it just hit me. They want a 4 month relief. They aren't worried about their images (I mean come on, they MUST have a clean base image for each model - or else they're stupid..and we all know it doesn't take 4 months to create and test a load, even from scratch), they don't want to lose all the Office sales during the Christmas buying season!

@techiem2 We have a winner!

I wish Microsoft would solve this the easy way: Load up a truck with $100 bills, drive to Washington, and buy the end of software patents.

Microsoft still wants patents. They just don't want them used against their company.

@caitlyn You are correct. I suspect that "patent reform" doesn't mean the same thing to Microsoft as what it does to others. Likely to them it would mean changes to the law to further benefit large status quo companies like themselves at the expense of screwing over smaller companies, entrepreneurs and individual inventors.

Stop! I'm BEGGING you to BAN "Word"! Use of "Word" contributes millions, if not billions of dollars of wasted time annually to the current Financial Crisis!

Ban "Word" Now! What have you got to lose but your chains?

Just had an argument with a bloke I work with, he's actually in Perth (WA), so it was over skype. he naturally pointed to all those articles that say "just wait till Mac or Linux have a bigger market share". I 'll post the gist of the exchange as soon as I can get it off Skype.

Interesting, while I was search for one of the articles he pointed me to (I had actually already read all of the articles he pointed me to), I foind this http://mac360.com/index.php/mac360/comments/opinion_security... what really got my attention was this

Quoting:By the way, a recent news report says Linux has now surpassed Mac OS X as the Number One Unix-like system on desktop computers. Add Mac and Linux together, Microsoft may be well under 90-percent market share.

this is from a 2005 article, in a Mac magazine. Now I'm pretty sure Mac has never dropped below 5%, I could be wrong.

I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft was down below 80% now, with about 10% each to MacOS and Linux.

@caitlyn I don't think the total adds up to 100%, it is probably more like 120% or so... That is because a lot of Mac and Linux users also use Windows either with dual boot, virtualization or multiple machines. That is if you go based on humans... if you go based on machines it is still probably more than 100% total, due to dual boot and virtualization... but I theorize that more Linux users have multiple computers (and more of them) than do Windows or even Mac users. So if you count based on machines Linux probably has a larger market share than it does based on people.

gotta love this http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12691-0.html?forumID=1&thread...