Micro$oft Windows Vista
For those of you wondering where I've been all this time, I'm learning. Well, trying too at least. It's a good faith effort, at the very least. In those short intervals that I'm not learning (yeah right), I took the time to install a new Microsoft operating system that's in Beta2 stage, Windows Vista. I would install Ubuntu Linux, but then I would have software compatibility issues and besides, my family would kill me due to slight changes in user interface...So here I am, stuck with Microsoft software running on my desktop. There are worse things in life, of course, but not many cost as much.
So how's Vista? Well it's beta 2. It works, but it definitely has backwards compatibility issues, especially due to DirectX upgrade. I can't get non-Microsoft programs to be stable. I can't get Thunderbird installed, I'm also having trouble with Firefox. I am sure you begin to see the pattern. Microsoft is implementing an operating system that does not »fully support« non Microsoft software once again. They even went so far to earn a law suit and a request for injunction from Symantec (company that among others produces Norton Antivirus), which is their long time partner, trying to prohibit them from publishing Vista. It is fun to see Microsoft slapped in the face by their own intellectual property activism for once. However, I think they have a solution in mind already. They'll just buy Symantec. There's more, however. Have you ever tried using the nice search function in Mozilla Firefox, that lets you do searches of popular sites? The new Explorer, of course, doesn't support Google.
It's one of those cases in law where prevalent market position is bloody obvious. It's also obvious to a 6yearold that Microsoft is trying to get the competition off Market, by abusing his prevalent position. You’d be surprised how clear the law is on that one and how bloody illegal it all is. Nothing much happens of course. I’m very sure nothing will happen in the USA. I remain hopeful we’ll see another round of Commission vs. Microsoft. But even if Commission was successful, I wonder what would happen. It’s not like the court can ban Microsoft from marketing it’s products in EU effectively anyway. They’d have to hit uninstall the moment they pass the judgment. We’ll know more in about 5 years when legal procedures in Europe will be about to end. Microsoft will be marketing a whole new operating system in 5 years, though.
So how's Vista? Well it's beta 2. It works, but it definitely has backwards compatibility issues, especially due to DirectX upgrade. I can't get non-Microsoft programs to be stable. I can't get Thunderbird installed, I'm also having trouble with Firefox. I am sure you begin to see the pattern. Microsoft is implementing an operating system that does not »fully support« non Microsoft software once again. They even went so far to earn a law suit and a request for injunction from Symantec (company that among others produces Norton Antivirus), which is their long time partner, trying to prohibit them from publishing Vista. It is fun to see Microsoft slapped in the face by their own intellectual property activism for once. However, I think they have a solution in mind already. They'll just buy Symantec. There's more, however. Have you ever tried using the nice search function in Mozilla Firefox, that lets you do searches of popular sites? The new Explorer, of course, doesn't support Google.
It's one of those cases in law where prevalent market position is bloody obvious. It's also obvious to a 6yearold that Microsoft is trying to get the competition off Market, by abusing his prevalent position. You’d be surprised how clear the law is on that one and how bloody illegal it all is. Nothing much happens of course. I’m very sure nothing will happen in the USA. I remain hopeful we’ll see another round of Commission vs. Microsoft. But even if Commission was successful, I wonder what would happen. It’s not like the court can ban Microsoft from marketing it’s products in EU effectively anyway. They’d have to hit uninstall the moment they pass the judgment. We’ll know more in about 5 years when legal procedures in Europe will be about to end. Microsoft will be marketing a whole new operating system in 5 years, though.
posted by Sergej at 1:46 PM
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The simple rule with any software, by which I religiously abide, is:
If something has the word beta in it, it has no business doing on my computer
But I'm a patient person, I can wait for it to be tested and re-tested, over and over again.
Hm ,... cool.
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