Can we STOP spelling Microsoft with a "$" PLEASE!!!

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Wintermoot

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well they ARE admit it there products prices re 100$ and up and there online service costs money whilst the competition offers it for free!
 

Arehexes

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Generic Gamer said:
Kavachi said:
First of: Op is either an idiot or works for Micro$oft, or just a fanboy. Micro$oft and $cientology have always been written this way, because most things they do are rip-offs. It's true I got windows on my comp, but that is because gaming requires that. Bill Gates has made himself the norm, and now he can just make one buggy product after another, to get rich real fast. Now that he's gone you notice that Windows 7 is actually a good product right of the bat, that is because the new leader isn't out for profit, but for quality for the clients. (and ofcourse a little profit).
I've yet to use a Microsoft OS that crashes when using Microsoft programs. Microsoft doesn't make "buggy products" so much as people try and break them and third party companies make buggy products for Microsoft OS. There will be the off hiccup with hardware (again the manufacturer's fault normally) but that's fixed pretty quickly. My old Netgear wireless card doesn't work under Windows 7 because there's no driver written for it, who's fault is that?

Each OS has a different kernel and needs programs to be specifically compiled for that kernel to work. Some can be run under emulators but that's a workaround rather than the rule. If one wasn't a standard then each program would need to be compiled for multiple kernels which would cost a lot more.

It pisses me off a lot when I use Linux and I get a load of shit on the boards about 'evil Micro$oft' and all that, it's short sighted jerking off by a bunch of Linux hipsters. If you really want to see a customer unfriendly software developer look at Apple! They only let their OS be installed on their hardware, limit what software you can install and periodically try to deactivate devices that have been modified. Look at every installation of iTunes, it brings the entire Apple menagerie with it! Frankly Apple treat their customers with more contempt than Microsoft are even able to summon.
T_T someone I can agree with, I never had problems using microsoft made programs. But people install all this shit on their computer and when it crashes they blame microsoft. You get a virus it's microsoft's fault. But like you said apple is tight fisted with what you can and can't do (we needed a legal ruling to say we can jail break devices), and linux users are morons who bash microsoft like they are unqiue. I use windows and linux, both work great. But no one ever bashes Sony, Apple, EA, Acitivsion for the crap they pull and if you do fans will come and bash you for it.
 

DarkRyter

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I spell Microsoft with an "s".

Because the dollar sign being used in place of an "s" in a metaphorical sense is for children.
 

martyrdrebel27

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you know, despite my defense of microsoft, i also made it clear that i know they're not good guys. i don't think they're good or evil. i only defend them now because they catch a lot of undue shit from people, and i find it ridiculous.

but my problem isn't so much with the M$ because they're a defensable company in the same way that any business is, but really more a fight of asthetics. i'm sick of seeing that stupid meme, fad, trend. whatever the hell you want to call it. it's annoying to look at. and okay, throw one in every now and then, but for it to be the rule rather than the exception is just watering your point the fuck down. it's like when your normally awkward friend or associate tells a joke and gets his peers/coworkers to actually laugh for once, and feels loved, so he tells that SAME FUCKING JOKE FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS. i don't get it, usually the internet has the attention span of a fucking zygote, but this thing just. won't. fucking. die.
 

martyrdrebel27

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SilentBobsThoughts said:
martyrdrebel27 said:
even the piece of shit that was Vista.
I liked Vista. It did everything I needed it to do. Call me a moron for not liking the same stuff as you or agreeing with you. I dare you.
meh, vista wasn't as terrible as i expected it to be after hearing about it so much, but i liked xp better.

i had a vista issue with windows media player not playing anything, and it turned out to have something to do with Media Foundation Protected Pipeline, something that ate a shit load of memory and prevented WMPlayer from working, so i switched to iTunes (ugh, what a horrible piece of shit that is, in my opinion) and after some service pack updates and time, i think it worked itself out, it played music by accident once, i just never tried, all my music is now in aac format for itunes. i just haven't gone back. and in vista, WMPlayer is like... built in, it's not a program, so i couldn't delete and redownload.

and vista ALWAYS asks me 3 or 4 fucking times if i'm sure i wanna do something, if i have the authority, and has plain told me i DONT have the permission to do something on a computer purchased, owned, and operated EXCLUSIVELY by me...

its not bad, but it certainly isn't good. in my experience.
 

Willis_D

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R?ally that both?r?d about it? Ju$t $p?ll oth?r word$ lik? that. It'$ $ort of fun.
Activi$ion
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P$3
Nint?ndo D$

Hmm. ran out of ideas here. What does the ''£'' look like? A ''L''?

OT:Seriously though, it's the internet, and it's just a small thing. There are far worse things to get annoyed about.
 

The_Eskimo

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Micro$oft,Micro$oft,Micro$oftMicro$oft,,Micro$oft,Micro$oft,Micro$oft,Micro$oft,Micro$oft.
Not do what exactly?
 

SilentBobsThoughts

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martyrdrebel27 said:
SilentBobsThoughts said:
martyrdrebel27 said:
even the piece of shit that was Vista.
I liked Vista. It did everything I needed it to do. Call me a moron for not liking the same stuff as you or agreeing with you. I dare you.
meh, vista wasn't as terrible as i expected it to be after hearing about it so much, but i liked xp better.

i had a vista issue with windows media player not playing anything, and it turned out to have something to do with Media Foundation Protected Pipeline, something that ate a shit load of memory and prevented WMPlayer from working, so i switched to iTunes (ugh, what a horrible piece of shit that is, in my opinion) and after some service pack updates and time, i think it worked itself out, it played music by accident once, i just never tried, all my music is now in aac format for itunes. i just haven't gone back. and in vista, WMPlayer is like... built in, it's not a program, so i couldn't delete and redownload.

and vista ALWAYS asks me 3 or 4 fucking times if i'm sure i wanna do something, if i have the authority, and has plain told me i DONT have the permission to do something on a computer purchased, owned, and operated EXCLUSIVELY by me...

its not bad, but it certainly isn't good. in my experience.
Thank you. I have argued with my cousin to a point where I nearly punched him (Not anything to do with the I dare you part of my post) because he seemed it appropriate to insult me because he likes to fuck around with his computer and change important settings ect, when my Vista did everything I needed it too, and how Windows 7 is so OMG AMZNG! and I have Windows 7 now, and Vista on my other laptop, but I've gotta say, Windows 7 is kinda annoying, I'm used to different things I guess.
 

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Micro$oft bought out companies by the truckload, only to fire their employees.
It's called "Business Torpedoing" and it's a downright dirty tactic.

You see, once Micro$oft (or anyone else) has ownership of a company, they own all assets developed by that company, which includes source code and trademarks.
So, they buy out a company who has spent time and effort on something that could compete, M$ gets whiff of it, and buys them out.
They ice/integrate the product they produced and fire all the employees to save costs.

Now that company has to start over from scratch, and cannot use anything that resembled the original code for their product, because it could be brought up in court by Micro$oft under charges of "Reverse Engineering".

Unethical, but technically legal and wildly profitable, since they were the only business left in town. Between that and bullying computer manufacturers into making Windows the one und only OS they can load, it's easy to see how Mr Gates (representing his company, no less) ended up addressing Congress in 1998.

Make no mistake, Micro$soft hasn't changed; it's just that there is actually a real market for them to compete with now (full of other underhanded unethical assholes).

I don't forgive Micro$oft, nor do I forgive the fact that they were permitted to continue their business pretty much unaltered after spending a short time in the penalty box.

You can say I'm petty for calling them that; fine, but I will call you naive' for defending them and thus their practices.
 

Chaos scorch NL

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headshotcatcher said:
PayJ567 said:
People can do as they like. How about YOU just don't get bothered by it. You're the problem here not the people who post it as you're the one making a thread about it and unnecessarily telling people what they can and can't do.
That's like saying "Nazi Germany wasn't in the wrong, it was those stupid Allied forces for being bothered by them!"
well if they hadn't all the jews would be dead now and if still no-one bothered then it meens nobody found taht they were doing something wrong

wrong or bad is always just relatives if everyone in the world would believe dead is fun we'd all be doing mass suicide
 

Rickyvantof

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PayJ567 said:
People can do as they like. How about YOU just don't get bothered by it. You're the problem here not the people who post it as you're the one making a thread about it and unnecessarily telling people what they can and can't do.
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Chaos scorch NL

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Kavachi said:
martyrdrebel27 said:
(to the poster who called me an idiot, fanboy, or employee)


i'm none of those things. but if you think that Bill Gates personally had a hand in making, programming and developing the xbox, the 360, or hell, at this point, even the piece of shit that was Vista, then you're obviously the idiot here. a company that large is not an engine being moved by one man's ability to program.
You definitly are an idiot, and a fanboy, and maybe an employee, who knows. Bill Gates is IN CHARGE. That means that he is the boss. The team working for him are nothing more than tools to do the job. Whatever he says they should do, they do, but it's still Bill Gates' idea. Also, if he had no influence in the qaulity of his products, why is Windows 7, who has been made when Bill Gates stopped, better than Vista, who was still under the supervision of Gates?

You should read some history about this kind of thing before you make random arguments and random statements.
yes he is the head but believe me he really only approves certain things every now and then trust me even in smaller comenies like the martin gaus company the head (martin gaus) does very little bosses of companies are useually old and they just own it and approve things and do money stuff that's there job