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Ah Mr Vegaman-Bunny is back, working hard for those Micro$oft dollars. :-)
Welcome back to you, in the new year too!
Your quote: "they bought it from- oh yes, that's right, it was free and is worth exactly what you paid for it."
I bet you have never used the software! You are just representing YOUR company's marketing stance.
What else to expect?
One more thing: OpenOffice has truly open, international standards. No playing word games! Every skilled programmer can openly create his own software opening and working any OpenOffice document without fear of legal recrimination. If they try that with your company's documents, they are forced to re-engineer. And there is a threat of intellectually property conflict!
Further: the OpenOffice document standard, did not have to bribe ISO officials to become an international standard, like Micro$oft did! Google for OOXML and you know what I am talking about!
In fact reading recent blogs on the issue, using Micro$oft's documents, I would never be quite sure if I still can open my own documents in a year down the track, unless I pay another bucket full of money in licenses to your monopolistic organization, correctly and appropriately spelled Micro$oft. In reply to: "Microsoft sets Office 2010 pricing"January 5, 2010
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With Open Office being available for free, for any operating system, not just the lame Windows, but also for MAC and Linux, I wonder what that fuzz about MS Office is all about.
Except hard-core users, who have been working for years with the same templates, no-one would even notice the difference between the 2, except when it comes to paying the ridiculous sum of what $499 for the 'full box version' and $119 for the de-sexed student version.
Let me get this straight: Micro$oft is asking $499 for a word processor and a spreadsheet?
I don't really see this being a difficult decision, that my family will be going the free download, easy-install and user friendly OpenOffice.
Thank you very muchly Micro$oft! No thanks!
Arthur In reply to: "Microsoft sets Office 2010 pricing"January 5, 2010
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only problem with it: It runs windows.
Without Windows, using some Linux derivate, the notebook would probably be another 15% to 20% cheaper.
... add the free OpenOffice versus the $300 gorilla baby called Microsoft Office,
and your savings are limitless if you start looking beyond the individual
... and 100% more secure too In reply to: "Intel Atom chip spawns Toshiba, Gateway Netbooks"January 3, 2010
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... obviously you don't know what you are talking about. You are paid by Micro$oft, yes? In reply to: "Acer: We'll have the first Chrome OS Netbook"
December 3, 2009
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your quote: "incompatible with all the world's software"
... not necessarily. The open-source guys have managed to break open Micro$ofts little hide and seek schemes, so for just about every one of their proprietary file formats can be read and modified by an open-source equivalent to their software. Just as well that more and more people realize that locking their data into the proprietary formats of the Redmond monopoly is not really in anyone's interest.
Why should anyone pay upwards of $200 for a Micro$oft Windoze, if a better, faster, more secure, more fun O/S is available for free. What about the additional cost of what $400 for office professional? OpenOffice is for free.
Name the application and there is always a free equivalent.
That's why in the long run, Micro$oft's 'vays' are over, and have little future.! In reply to: "Acer: We'll have the first Chrome OS Netbook"December 3, 2009
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Linux on a pc is very safe ... is very safe if you want ti to be safe.
Windoze on pc is an entirely different kettle of fish ... its kind of in another universe as far as security is concerned.
Plus you get other goodies like DRM ... In reply to: "McAfee uncovers riskiest domains"December 2, 2009
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The above 2 comments would have been made by paid Micro$oft shills. Every time they write the word *bing* onto the screen, it makes BLING in their pockets. In reply to: "New Google search UI brings color, search options"
November 25, 2009
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New Corp and Micro$oft - 2 dying monsters unite. What's bad for the monsters is good for mankind. In reply to: "Can News Corp. afford calling Google's bluff?"
November 24, 2009
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"Windows 7 is simply the best PC operating system that we or anyone else has ever built."
I understand a CEO has to biased towards his company. But a few words of wisdom for the man known to 'handle' chairs:
- as long as Windows gets forced down the throat, of every one who want to buy a PC. There is
no free choice. Even if a customer insists of not wanting a Windoze license, he still has to pay for
it. It is called a monopoly.
- Every time an OEM vendors dares to bring an Ubuntu pre-loaded product onto the market, there
is a warning letter about loss of favorable conditions from Micro$oft. And mysteriously the Linux
pre-loaded laptop or computer disappears from the shelves. Micro$oft does not know how deal with
competition in a fair way. Your way is the way of a bully. Even to place you impractical office
document formats in the frame of an international standard, you had to buy yourself into the
ISO organization. Informed professionals do know, and took notice.
- Your operating system is losing developers by the thousands, every week, because they don't like
your little hidden API's, favoring calls from your own software, automatically disadvantaging
software calls from competitors software.
- AND now to the crux of your statement, Mr Ballmer:
THE BEST OPERATING SYSTEM IS LINUX.
WHY?
Over 90% of the worlds supercomputers run Linux. That ought to tell you something.
And guess what: On the other end of the scale, the low end computers, Linux is again the king.
It runs faster, is more secure, and more customizable, and it is CHEAPER, actually most
of it is free. Take that for a dose of reality, with whatever else you are taking every day
- Daily I am surrounded by hundred if not thousands with people using PCs for their daily. I haven't
seen a single Win7 install yet, and I am not closing my eyes. Win 7 a good seller?
Clearly, Mr Ballmer, you live in a parallel universe. Keep supporting disaster companies like SCO, a company that has tried to sue every Linux user to pay for a license fee. They are in bankruptcy Chapter 11 now, fighting Chapter 7, the lawyers from IBM breathing down their neck, fangs ready to strike.
There you go Mr Ballmer.
Arthur In reply to: "Ballmer: Windows 7 selling like hotcakes"November 19, 2009
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Quote:
"Windows 7 is simply the best PC operating system that we or anyone else has ever built."
I understand a CEO has to biased towards his company. But a few words of wisdom for the man known to 'handle' chairs:
- as long as Windows gets forced down the throat, of every one who want to buy a PC. There is
no free choice. Even if a customer insists of not wanting a Windoze license, he still has to pay for
it. It is called a monopoly.
- Every time an OEM vendors dares to bring an Ubuntu pre-loaded product onto the market, there
is a warning letter about loss of favorable conditions from Micro$oft. And mysteriously the Ubuntu
pre-loaded laptop or computer disappears from the shelves. Micro$oft does not know how deal with
competition in a fair way. Your way is the way of a bully. Even to place you impractical office
document formats in the frame of an international standard, you had to buy yourself into the
ISO organization. Informed professionals do know, and took notice.
- Your operating system is losing developers by the thousands, every week, because they don't like
your little hidden API's, favoring calls from your own software, automatically disadvantaging
software calls from competitors software.
- AND now to the crux of your statement, Mr Ballmer:
THE BEST OPERATING SYSTEM IS LINUX.
WHY
Over 90% of the worlds supercomputers run Linux. That ought to tell you something.
And guess what: On the other end of the scale, the low end computers, Linux is again the king.
It runs faster, is more secure, and more customizable, and it is CHEAPER, actually most
of it is free. Take that for a dose of reality, with whatever else you are taking every day
- Daily I am surrounded by hundred if not thousands with people using PCs for their daily. I haven't
seen a single Win7 install yet, and I am not closing my eyes. Win 7 a good seller?
Clearly, Mr Ballmer, you live in a parallel universe. Keep supporting disaster companies like SCO, a company that has tried to sue every Linux user to pay for a license fee. They are in bankruptcy Chapter 11 now, fighting Chapter 7, the lawyers from IBM breathing down their neck, fangs ready to strike.
There you go Mr Ballmer.
Arthur In reply to: "Ballmer: Windows 7 selling like hotcakes"November 19, 2009
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