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        <title><![CDATA[Profit issue!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Here is how you can tell what MS is going to do.  Think of the way that they can engineer anything that will cost you the max ammount of money over the longest period of time and that is what they will do.  Microsoft operates as if they believe their customers are extremely dense sheeple and are thus subject to treatment appropriate for subhumans, morals only apply when dealing with actual people.  We are talking about a company who is literally resonsible for many many famlies finacial destruction, they literally have put kids in the street, all to get more money.  Just look up what they did to Stacker Corp, although they eventually won, they were the first to do so, but behind them were hundreds of other little companies that were crushed, right along with the famlies who had their lives and dreams and fortunes tied up in those small companies.  MS is a heinous company and I hope for a day when they go bankrupt and hopefully Gates could live on the streets, I know it will never happen, but if for no other reason I hope there is a God because he can't escape that judgement, all for more money even though he has more than hr could ever spend, how much do you need that you have to steal a small famlies money from them?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jtjames]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:36:32 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Intentional bugs]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Microsoft intentionally releases buggie crappie releases in between their good releases.  That way they maximize their profits because you buy the next, good release, far faster than you ordinarily would have.  This is kind of like what the Tabbacco companies do when they put chemicals in their tabbacco that makes the cigerettes burn faster and not go out, natural tabbacco will go out if sat in an ashtrey whereas a marlboro will burn all the way to the filter.  The faster the thing burns the more you buy, same kind of theory.  My friend works for them, MS, and told me long ago that they intentionally release products that are buggie and inferior, what are you really going to do about it anyway? Get mad and then go out and buy the next release because most people won't go to the effort to learn Linux and get off the MS train, even though Linux if a far superior OS far more stable and always has been.  Whats more it's basically free and has the same capabilities as MS and with Open Office GL offers the exact same capabilities as Office, even looks identical, all with requireing far less resources.  I pray for the day that MS goes bankrupt because suddenly the world wakes up and realizes that they don't have to purchase a product from a company that steals, harms other people, treats their own customers like they could care less about them, steals from their own customers by knowingly and intentionally creating and releaseing products that are &quot;broken&quot; in essance-that is theft no matter how you look at it, but the thing is I really don't think the world is smart enough, we live in a &quot;Sheeple&quot; world and the sheeple will continue on with MS even though they know they are getting ripped off, stamping thier feet and getting REALLY mad DARNIT! on thier way to buy more MS products.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jtjames]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:24:02 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Win 2000]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Win 2000 was basically a business OS as well.  Win NT 4 and 4.5 don't really count in my opinion.  Although &quot;NT&quot; stands for &quot;New Technology&quot; this was just the old Microsoft theft trick in action.  They tried to get Unix to give them their Kernal free but they refused ( just like Stacker Inc and countless others).  In this case though because Unix is a big company and can defend itself instead of simply stealing the technology they just used an older out of patent unix Kernal, with smaller companies that cannot defend themselves they simply steal the technology, that's why I say pirate anything microsoft as often as you can, never pay for MS products.  How can they ask payment when they steal themselves, and then literally destroy peoples lives by destroying their small businesses, there have been more than a few suicides related to gates destroying peoples famlies.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jtjames]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:09:21 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You forgot some]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Windows 1.0Windows 2.0Windows 3.0Windows 3.1Windows for Workgroups 3.11MS BOB  Windows 98SEWindows MEWin2000 was a server ed so leave that one out.or separate list for server versions.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[SHANANMB]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:52:24 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Likely integration issue]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It seems, like WinRT is something Microsoft has purchased from someone and they are trying to figure out how to use it.One example, security: WinRT is supposed to finally bring Windows up to date on security. That is, not let one application access other application's resources etc.This of course breaks a lot of old stuff and, most of all, requires new programming paradigms -- you can't do with the old programming style - at all.Now, it seems that even the Microsoft-internal programmers can't code in WinRT.To overcome this, Microsoft has &quot;fixed&quot; WinRT, so that an application can load and link legacy Win32 DLLs.. Great? Ooops!! What happened with the better security mode? Say, an attacker cannot penetrate the WinRT applications, but what stops them from attacking the win32 DLL? Will Windows 8 support the absurd &quot;API servers&quot; that in fact were just a collection of old DLLs that some program installed on your system. You could end up with gigabytes and gigabytes of almost identical DLLs, including older versions that contain bugs.About the same, what Microsoft did when they incorporated the otherwise great NT kernel into their &quot;windows&quot; universe.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[danbi]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:47:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why does this happen?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[So what are the reasons behind this?  Poor project management?  Unrealistic release dates?  Too many new features?  Communication problems between marketing and development?It seems that they've also gotten into the pattern where they say the next release is going to do X and it's not until the following release that it actually does X.  This was especially true as mentioned with Vista and 7.  7 does what MS promised for Vista.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Fairbs]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:16:08 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Windows History of Sales Patterns]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Ever since Windows has first come on the scene it has historically had a problem where they will have one versions that will be extremely popular and work well, being followed by one that is a complete dud.For example Windows 95 was a great seller, followed by Windows 98, 1st edition, which had several serious problems, so it was quickly replaced it with Windows 98 second edition which did very well, then followed by Windows Millenium Edition (and Windows 2000), which were buggy OS's and basically a bomb,( I know that I'm leaving out NT 4, but this was more of a business and not mainstream OS) followed by XP, which is their best one as far as longevity, then Vista, which was another bomb, now Windows 7 which is doing great. So if they keep up with their pattern, windows 8 will probably not be good, but let's hope that they finally break the pattern and have 2 good OS's in a row!!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rustgeun]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:45:52 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What about bandwidth?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I live in a rural community where even getting DSL and/or cable Internet for our field offices is limited.  We don't particularly want all the little gadgets and gizmos continually taking up our precious 1 Mb of bandwidth, and that's what I keep seeing with Windows 8.  Just like every successive release of Windows, it takes up more resources, only this time it's bandwidth.And what about on phones, where you have to pay for the data plans?  I REALLY don't need every extraneous app phoning home for updates every 5 minutes and driving up the cost of use of the device!Not interested.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[blarman]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:14:22 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Grammatical note]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The word is &quot;lose&quot; not &quot;loose&quot;.  You lose your car keys, your job, etc.  You loosen a knot, a belt, etc.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[blarman]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:10:41 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Microsoft Would Be Smart to Not Target the Enterprise with Windows...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[...at least initially.  Their focus should be the consumer market with touch-smart PCs and low-end and ultra tablets.  Depending on the success of W8 on the consumer side, that will ease the transition on the enterprise side with the outward pressure that consumerization often exerts on the enterprise.  Windows 7 should be the OS of choice until people become familiar with the interface because of their touch-smart PC or tablet at home and ultimately want that environment at work.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[fhrivers]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:36:32 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What's the benefit?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Sure, we can make it work, but where's the payoff?As to making a user's day, many of mine dislike the disruption of getting an new system.  I suspect it will be a couple of years before live tiles will provide updates on business data, especially for shops that don't have an internal app development team.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:15:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[lets end this]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[you skip every other win95 skipwin98 usewin2000 skipwinxp  usewin vista skipwin7 usewin8 skipeverybody knows that...  unless your not it or selling something]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[cd613@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:25:03 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Windows 8 Metro education/corporate]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think windows 8 will take off and do well in education/corporate, in education where i work certianlly on our road map to migrate users to 8 as we bought HP 2740/60 tablet devices about 15months ago knowing a more touch friendly OS was coming.  and so far the consumer preview works well on these devices even runs ok on HP slate 500, and all in 1 Acer touch desktop anyway....upgrading to 8 without a touch interface still works nice howerver to get the full experience touch is a must.  for this reason i belive it will take longer to go into existing market with non touch enabled devices making windows 7 best choice here.I think for anyone buying new PC's (laptop.slate,desktop) now making sure you add touch now with windows 7 so you dont loose out on experience to move to windows 8]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[peaced@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:45:06 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Windows 8 Metro at the workplace...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think Metro can work well for corporations. You have to break down your thought process and put aside your technical indifferences. Sometimes we techies don't like change but its inevitable. I think its safe to say a lot of end-users aren't POWER users. Put a shortcut in front of them and let the clicking begin....throw in mail, office a web browser and you just made their day. Metro will simplify this experience by having quick access from the Stat screen. It's customizable so they can add/remove what they use most and its easy to do. Live tiles can provide up to the minute statistics and information without opening an app. It's time to embrace change and learn to utilize our tools in a more efficient way.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob.sharp]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:43:27 -0700</pubDate>
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