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Microsoft Does Something

Microsoft Posted by AnonymousModerator on 23:12 12th March, 2001
from the let-it-be-known-we-never-stir-for-the-sake-of-it dept.
ClassSeparator reports: "Microsoft is to do something to Windows! According to a Microsoft PR-bot, Microsoft plans making changes to Windows. The altered version, based on additions and edits to source code, will be sold to Microsoft customers all over the world as an upgrade at some later time." I guess that one has been on the cards for a while now, but it's kinda spooky to see it out in the open. I wonder how this will affect Napster.

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Change for changes sake.(Score:2, Consummate)
by MoveZig4 on 23:12 12th March, 2001

It doesn't matter what the Softies do, they cant coverup the fact that their winging it here.

They just don't get it do they. They key virtue in an operating system is STABILITY and thats one thing they aint gonna pickup by writing PRESS RELEASES to generate FUD.

They should try getting some Op en Source attitude in there!! They lusers gonna LOOSE IT!

(Yeah, right. As if.)

Move that Ziggy Zig!

Re: Change for changes sake. (Score:1, Fragrant)
by Sredni Vashtar on 23:12 12th March, 2001

I heard somewhere Microsoft gonna use Pthon for the default scripting, now theyve more or less said COM sucks.

But that wont help them. Their on the way to destruction!!!!

Sredni Vashtar went forth, His thoughts were red thoughts and his teeth were white.

Crippled (Score:2, Redolent)
by SnarkleF on 23:12 12th March, 2001
My mom had Windows at work and it hurt her eyes real bad
Re: Change for changes sake (Score:0, Spontaneous)
by womble_uncle_orinoco on 23:12 12th March, 2001

wouldn't it be kewl if we all clubbed together and did our own version of windows?

i'm not a programmer, but i know lots of them and since windows is so bad it cant be so hard to make our own and then we could open source it and then what would they do.

i'd love to help with the beta testing. now i've got a spare pc because danny has left and i've got her pc in my bedroom. its a p90 but that wont matter because it will be soooh much better without those dumb softies writing it.

we could call it 'blue hat windows'. :-)

Theft (Score:3, Allegorical)
by MoveZig4 on 23:12 12th March, 2001

> I heard somewhere Microsoft gonna use Pthon for the default scripting

Yeah, right. And then their gonna change it and then their gonna add features to it and then their gonna P8ENT it.

COS THAT'S THE WAY THEY WORK.

Doesn't everynody realise by now?

Move that Ziggy Zig!

Re: Crippled (Score:2, Catalytic)
by MouseballCleanser on 23:12 12th March, 2001

> My mom had Windows at work and it hurt her eyes real bad

Thatz kewl, but wheres the "All Your Base" reference?

Somebody set up you the bomb! Not you get signal! It's you!

MbC

Re: Change for changes sake (Score:2, Intrinsic)
by Sredni Vashtar on 23:12 12th March, 2001

> > I heard somewhere Microsoft gonna use Pthon for the default scripting

> Yeah, right.

Actually, I miswrote. Actually it was 'Their going to give up COM for C#, now that COM sucks'.

Sorry

Sredni Vashtar went forth, His thoughts were red thoughts and his teeth were white.

Re: Change for changes sake (Score:3, Catatonic)
by Magnus.Anderson on 23:12 12th March, 2001

> > I heard somewhere Microsoft gonna use Pthon for the default scripting

It their very own fault for the disputing with Sun. It better they use Java. Here we are using Java since three years ago. We not only using Java for the programmer increase (though we are: maybe ten times, maybe twenty times) we also now use it for everything from the commanding line stuff such as grep through to the web engine beans. Same speed C but faster. The security we are finding, and with the IDE too (Borland or IBM). Portability of course is of the deal.

-- Magnus

First (Score:2 , Serendipitous)
by ForJustGreatness on 23:12 12th March, 2001

Am I the 1st person in this thread to say 'script-kiddy'? I think I am.

For Just Greatness!

Re: It better they use Java. (Score:3, Contemporary)
by MouseballCleanser on 23:12 12th March, 2001

Magnus.Anderson wrote:

> It their very own fault for the disputing with Sun. It better they use Java.

Kewl! Even better than all your base!! New cult alert!

MbC

'Same speed C but faster'

Re: Change for changes sake (Score:1, Inevitable)
by MoveZig4 on 23:12 12th March, 2001

> Actually, I miswrote. Actually it was 'Their going to give up COM for C#, now that COM sucks'.

See what I mean? The FUD has ALREADY BEGUN.

AND YOUR PART OF IT!!

Just my $0.02

MoveZig4

We not only using Java for the programmer increase

Re: Change for changes sake (Score:5, Liberating)
by womble_uncle_orinoco on 23:12 12th March, 2001

my friend the programmer has done his own open source windows and he has put it on my pc. i am using it and its much better cos its got the start button on the side not the bootom which is kewl. and lots of other things to. he has done it in perl so micro$oft cannot touch him with they're patent crud.

But nobody can have it yet as its beta so dont ask. although I hope to have screenshots for it real soon so that you can look.

Cutting to the quick (Score:2, Limpid)
by Sredni Vashtar on 23:12 12th March, 2001

Look at me!

Sredni Vashtar went forth, His thoughts were red thoughts and his teeth were white.

The executive summary (Score:5, Insightful)
by Everybody on 23:12 12th March, 2001

Look at me!

LOOK AT ME!

LOOK AT ME!

LOOK AT ME!

 

 
 


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