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Why you always keep quiet about Apple's anti-competitive practices in IOS area and devices? Why Mozilla and others simply are unable to force apple to include their browsers? Why MS all the time?

MuhammadFarooqZia, on 22 May 2012 - 01:33 PM, said:

Because they're shills for Apple. The PC World name is little more than a throwback to yesteryear.

Of course they're not alone. All of these tech rags shill for Apple. Must be something foraging ahead with this dreck knowing full well that the audience is aware of all the hypocrisy it takes to churn such articles out (and I do mean ALL the hypocrisy).

Same with the ubiquitous prognostications of doom for every new Microsoft product and the gibbering excitement they post with whenever they get some word of Phone 7 not destroying crApple in the stores. No mention is ever made though of how all the Phone 7 devices are crammed so far in the back of the store you need a metal detector to find them and how none of the store employees are ever forced or encouraged to present all options to new customers. Simply "Phone 7 sales are underwhelming".

Pfft - whatever.

The rumor is Apple is putting IE on iOS as well as Chrome and Firefox...NOT! Oh, and Google's little laptop OS experiment didn't seem to include IE or Safari.
So is Microsoft the only one protecting its interests or do you just like to pick on the big dog when you know it won't bite? Lame.

kjohn034, on 22 May 2012 - 01:46 PM, said:

Also, i wish i could have a no work job like you where all i would do is barf up some word combinations everyday because SOMETHING has to be written everyday.
Thank god the great writers of our time didn't have to grind something out everyday for some sleaze job or we would have a lot less classics to read.

That is Microsoft's problems in a nutshell. They always focus on tripping the other racers and forget about the race. That is why Chrome is number one and why Android is already number one in mobile, Linux is number one in the cloud and will be number one in Desktop and Gaming.

We've already commoditized the OS and moved on to new things, while Microsoft is still clinging to the past.

The Microsoft hate is just unbarable. Isn't Apple older than MS? Apple has 3 successful products, iPad, iPod and iPhone which basically are all the same devices vs Microosft who still makes ALL of their money on the same application that got them started...Windows. Apple has NEVER made good money from the Mac. In fact they sold only 125M in 28 years...that is sad at less than 5M computers per year average. Put in that perspective, it shows they have far less penetration n the world vs MS.

Here is why MS isn't going anywhere for the next 2 to 5 decades...Windows. No one has anythign better and until businesses don't need a desktop of some kind, MS is the sole supplier of a great OS. Even if we move to smething better, Windows is the most highly adaptive platform on the planet. Linux is very adaptive too...but it isn't user friendly...PERIOD.

Microsoft doing things their way is no more stiffling then Apple or anyoen else doing it their way. If anyone is stiffling competition its Apple. Microosft doesn't have any real competition.

Internet Explorer is given FREE with Windows. It has been free since day one. It si not a money maketr for Microsoft. If Microsoft sells you Windows without IE, they will still sell 500M copies at some point.IE is a feature of Windows. MS isn't trying to win the browser battle, they already won the war. They own the desktop, whatever do they need to fight about? Nothing.

kronoscornelius, on 22 May 2012 - 01:54 PM, said:

Will be number one in desktop and gaming? Oh *snap!*

Linux fanboys have been saying that for the last... couple of decades.

What a load of bullshit!

KaschaK, on 22 May 2012 - 01:46 PM, said:

I agree with you. Apple can get away with murder while Microsoft get flack for anything they do. I'm not saying Microsoft is right or wrong in this particular situation, we don't know what Microsoft had to do to get IE to run on Windows RT.

"These limitations would make it impossible for other browsers to do things like use plugins and extensions that aren't approved of by Microsoft."

What the author forgot to mention is that Microsoft isn't even going to have extensions or addons in its own browsers. I'm not 100% sure this is just in Metro IE or in the desktop version too? I heard it they weren't allowing extensions and addons in both but it was a rumor so who knows. On that note I heard they weren't going to let other browsers use extensions or addons either.