[coastie65]

RRCREV31 said:

Hey - its' all in fun. I just "Love" my Vista on the two laptops. he he - I'll keep the XP Pro thank you. Have a good one.

:^0 Everybody's fine. I responded to rgreen's post about the wisdom of posting the article or the least the headline. coastie

[rkinne01]

YAWN another cheap shot at Microsoft. Agreements like this are common in the business world, why is it okay for everyone but Microsoft?

E-Bay (for the most part) is a rip off and retailers are abandoning ship faster than you can say "Amazon here I come"!

[coastie65]

Now that you mention it, I have noticed an upswing in third party sellers over there and have dealt with a few. coastie

[kwjordan]

I usually use Windows Live Search. The last time I tried Google, it tried to sell me "Antivirus 2009", a notorious virus. Microsoft has not done anything like that. I'm avoiding Google again. The Google lovers are ridiculing me.

[lionroar]

My philosophy on this is that if I am going to purchase something online use the search engine to buy stuff, since a portion of the tab is on MS, and then change back to my favorite search engine google. In time MS will have to cut the program because it will run out of dough. Maybe is we do it more frequently we will obligate MS to always pay and if it does not, then see you later when you give me more dough? Overall this company is struggling to keep it's self afloat. What happened to those best and brightest people? oh well.

[rgreen4]

If you are talking about Microsoft struggling to keep afloat, you better find a better source. Their revenue is up this year and so are profits. Check out their quarterly reports in business news, not the biased anti-Microsoft IT news.

[Bans]

Good read.

When looking at the three search engines side by side
its easy to tell why Google and yahoo do better. I'm keeping that to myself
just incase a MS rep happens to be reading this.

[lionroar]

Why so over protected over a crappy OS like Windows. There is no need to get so touchy. Sooner or later that cow is bound to run dry and you know it. Won't last. Why do you think Bill made such a smart move and left the company. Why making attemps to buy "Yahoo", I smell fear of Google here. Why did MS tried to find loop holes over the "General Public License" of Linux. Why give free virus remover. Why sell windows software in 3rd world countries for only 3 bucks. I could go on but why bother. We all know anybody can go to china and get a pirated version of Vista for only 2 bucks. You must not google that much. Read the articles out man, read btw the lines, don't be ignorant.

[rgreen4]

I'm not. I know better than to get financial information from posts in a discussion about computer operating systems. A loud minority keeps shouting about how bad Windows is, but the fact remains that it is the single operating system that works across a very wide range of computer systems and provides the foundation for more applications than any other.

Everyone was shouting from the rooftop how Mac OS/X was increasing it's market share so significantly (from 5% to 6%) and how Linux was going to replace Windows. (The 31 flavors of Linux combined have a market share of less than 2%, and it's free!) Windows got that 90+ percent market share because it will do so much for so many people. That's not being defensive, that's being factual.

The montly malware remover - call it customer service. They determined that not every one runs an up to date anti-virus and anti-spyware software, so they send out a removal tool with their updates.