I hate Microsoft

[Asher]

You've made a wrong turn somewhere, monolith.

[monolith94]

At albequerqe, methinks… I should be heading back to vermont I guess

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Asher
Well, obviously Sun also disagrees with you because they thought it was worthy to spend millions to challenge in court.

No, Sun disagrees with MS, which means they agree with me.

Originally posted by Asher
That's okay, UR, we always need people like you to run our networks for us. Don't think too hard.

Actually, our network is shifting to an OSS one.

[aaglo]

What is outlook?

[Skanky Burns]

A virus transferrance device methinks.

[Ari Rahikkala]

Originally posted by Apocalypse

In 1994 I bought a top-end PC and Windows 95 cost me nothing because it came with 3.1 and I used a Windows 95 CD that came from a friends' top-end PC he bought a few months later.

Gentlemen, here we have an excellent reason as to why everyone uses Windows.

[Harovan]

I use Windows only for games. That's the only strength of it. It's a good desktop environment, just don't let it go to the internet in particular, or to any network at all. Microsoft's networking implementations are just too bad. We have a Win2000 based network at work, it needs a full time administrator (thank God not me) and still runs lousy. Before I left my old company 2-1/2 years ago and moved to another place, I set up a network of similar size, based on a Linux server. That's by far not the best, but one of the cheapest solution (should have made it OpenBSD... that's what I regret). It still runs without any administration and far from one HD failure and rare restarts never caused problems.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
A virus transferrance device methinks.

Plus incubation device

[Saint Marcus]

Does someone know the prices of Windows 95 to XP at or around their launch dates? Then we can see if MS really boosted the price. I won't be surprised if they did, though I'm not sure since I never purchased windows myself (all free copies, or illegal copies)

[Urban Ranger]

IIRC, their prices are roughly the same. Meanwhile, the price of hardware has been dropping like a rock.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
No, Sun disagrees with MS, which means they agree with me.

How do you figure? You said that it doesn't make any sense (implying it makes no difference) to not ship the JVM but still make it available for download.

Sun seems to think it makes a big difference, seeing as they're spending millions of dollars trying to get the gov't to force MS to ship it.

IIRC, their prices are roughly the same.

Bingo -- there's your answer.
In order to prove that a company is abusing its powers to raise prices -- you must first prove that they raise prices.

You just admitted yourself prices have been unchanged. The cost of the hardware is totally irrelevant, MS doesn't make computers...