Why Microsoft will win

Heh... as kismet would have it, I just applied for a role at Microsoft Research.

Maybe something will come of it, so I can tell you how the transwarp hubs are shaping up.

cheers,

catch

Ballmer: I deedin't throw no steekin chair.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/05/chair_chucking/

Hey Catch, you'd better not shift to Google after a few years with MS. Ballmer will open a can of wup-ass on ya :D

I always thought that MS and yes, even apple had the advantage over everyone else because they are all one. Look at apple, Itoons, and the Ipod. Ive seen it in action and its pretty sleek. I see those two taking the advantage over the rest because of sleek integration from hardware to software. I mean if you can plug in your windows video/mp3 player(something like an ipod will have to come up) into your windows machine then have it sent to your windows media center. There's so so many things that a freeware community cant do. I'm not saying they cant do it at all, but how can a free software foundation compete with a multi-billion?, trillion?, gazillion dollar a year company. I don't mean to trash talk the GNU/GPL guys at all. It just seems that windows has the market pretty much captured when it comes to the general public. Personally I'd love to see a Linux workstation running open office and Mozilla thunderbird. But I don't think we'll see piles of people, moms, dads, sisters, brothers signing up for better training in OpenOffice. I know with MS's new OS coming out its just gonna be yet another wrap for the Microsoft empires noose around the necks of the people. It'll offer new features, bigger selling points and probably god forbid more flash. I know probably Ill will run every new windows out there to try them but I will try and use as many non windows Os's as well. The future is bleak? I don't think so, just new. </RANT>

Quote:

---

Heh... as kismet would have it, I just applied for a role at Microsoft Research.

---

I have been working for R&D ever since I started using XP. Every time an application crashes on my PCs, I send an error report to Microsoft :D . Its kept me fairly busy this last few years. ;)

Quote:

---

Originally posted here by catch
Heh... as kismet would have it, I just applied for a role at Microsoft Research.

Maybe something will come of it, so I can tell you how the transwarp hubs are shaping up.

cheers,

catch

---

See, you think it's a joke now but when you get inside the belly of the beast and see one you won't be laughing. You know the führer will want to know if you've used google "place your hand on this bible and raise the other"


Aspman: Man......so he is getting a little rough in the headquarters. I read about a different report. Forcing packets of military grade dextroamphetamine (the "go-pill") onto tired programmers " you're not going anywhere, 'but it's christmas eve!' WRITE!".

Muhahahaha!