MS ordered to stop selling 'Word'

[ZEE]

page2plox

[Asher]

For **** sakes, AAHZ, set your per-page setting to 50 like any intelligent person.

[Zkribbler]

I thought vaporware was proposed or promised software which the company never actually delivers. Like Duke Nuke'em 3D (or what ever it was called) which supposedly was just around the corner for a decade plus but never actually hit market.

Isn't that what I said??
*Company A is selling software that does a certain task.
*MS announces that the next version of Windows will include free software that does that very same task.
*People stop buying Company A's software. Company A goes bankrupt.
*The next version of Windows does NOT contain the promised software.

Asher darlin', the only time I talk out my ass is when I'm whispering sweet nothings in your ear.

[FrostyBoy]

Isn't that what I said??
*Company A is selling software that does a certain task.
*MS announces that the next version of Windows will include free software that does that very same task.
*People stop buying Company A's software. Company A goes bankrupt.
*The next version of Windows does NOT contain the promised software.

Asher darlin', the only time I talk out my ass is when I'm whispering sweet nothings in your ear.

You do little whisper farts in his ear?

[Zkribbler]

Ahh, my subtlety was not lost on you.

[Asher]

Isn't that what I said??
*Company A is selling software that does a certain task.
*MS announces that the next version of Windows will include free software that does that very same task.
*People stop buying Company A's software. Company A goes bankrupt.
*The next version of Windows does NOT contain the promised software.

Asher darlin', the only time I talk out my ass is when I'm whispering sweet nothings in your ear.

Are you lying, or are you just massively misinformed?

Are you referring to Hangul (as Q^3 tried to clarify above, which you dodged)? If so, everything in this quote of yours is demonstrably factually incorrect. They never declared bankruptcy, it just became close in 2002 due to widespread piracy -- then a patriotic campaign to support their own software brought it back from the brink. This was 3 years after MS' attempted purchase of the company. MS also never promised the new versions of Windows would do that.

Where the **** did you get this ****? Are you seriously just making this up? Cite it.

[-Jrabbit]

Tempest in a teapot. Call me when the appeal process is over.

But I must say, Asher's outrage reads amazingly similar to a Mac fanboy's screed. Hilarious. I don't disagree that U.S. IP law is seriously flawed. But at least MS has the resources to defend itself.

Asher -- sorry to hear about your gramps. Travel safe.

[Asher]

-Jrabbit -- thanks, that was last week. Been back since Saturday.

[-Jrabbit]

I've been away from the OTF. All my spare time going into fantasy football for now.

[Straybow]

A noble pursuit, sir. Just keep up with the dead pool. Things are afoot...