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  Re: Ok, who didn't know, or at least guess this?  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 28 Jan 2009 23:57:38
Message: <49813742$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> Neither of those is going to stand long.
> 
> I see MS doing lots of new things that aren't on Linux, tho. You don't 
> stay ahead by not inventing anything new.
> 
What exactly? Just being clear that "every time" they announce some new 
"feature", its either something like .NET, which a lot of people don't 
want at all, or trust, *or* someone goes, "Gee, doesn't GFBunk (or some 
similarly weirdly named thing) already do that on such an such OS?"

>> BTW, here the one about how the EU may have finally gotten so annoyed 
>> at IE being integrated in MS' machines that they may require new 
>> installs to "include" an alternative browser "standard" in all of 
>> them? Can't imagine that making things better for them either...
> 
> Or, honestly, for the users or browser vendors. At this point, nobody 
> can actually *sell* a browser, so I'm not sure what the point of not 
> giving away a browser is, or how you decide which of the 8 or 10 popular 
> browsers out there you should be including.
Hmm. Well there is that. But, the point is "competing", not "every", 
so... Sure they will just pick which ever one has the most market share 
at the time, which would be... Hmm... lol

-- 
void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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