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| #1 By 11888 (64.230.9.236) at 3/8/2004 11:56:39 PM |
| I'm starting to feel embarassed for them. |
| #2 By 3653 (209.149.57.116) at 3/8/2004 11:58:25 PM |
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Google's newsource is in beta. Thats quite a stretch to say they are stealing the idea. I mean how original is indexing news articles, really?
I guess Apple, Dell, Microsoft, HP, Compaq, etc "found, imitated, and made up a little" when they added sound to computers. Why, they just copied that from the old radio. Those THIEFS. Get a clue. Please. This post was edited by mooresa56 on Monday, March 08, 2004 at 23:59. |
| #3 By 2459 (24.175.141.98) at 3/9/2004 1:19:13 AM |
| MSN doesn't have a monopoly on anything. |
| #4 By 2459 (24.175.141.98) at 3/9/2004 2:27:12 AM |
| Except for the large percentage of users that access the net through AOL, or buy computers from OEMs that change it. |
| #5 By 12071 (203.173.25.170) at 3/9/2004 5:42:21 AM |
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#1 It's more commonly known as "Embrace, Extend and Extinguish" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish)
#5 MSN might not, but Microsoft do. If you can't see the link, there's really little point trying to explain it to you. #8 So your point is that Microsoft steals ideas from MULTIPLE sources and then calls them their own innovations? We agree with you :) |
| #6 By 9549 (63.88.169.2) at 3/9/2004 7:12:48 AM |
| I didn`t see it as stealing I thought it was just good old fashioned competition. But I forgot MS isn`t allowed to compete in any field. I guess Google or Yahoo aren`t allowed to have competition. Maybe foreseeing the supposed "threat" that MS seems to present they should go out and get some contracts together that put them on OEM machines just like MS did in the seventies. That way new computers can have even more choices instead of claiming a monopoly on MS who only made a good business decision in the seventies to contract with new computer makers. Everyone is so worried about MS has the lion share of the market but nothing is stopping Real, AOL, Netscape, Google, Yahoo from contacting vendors from making there own deals. I prefer Google but I`ll try MS it is up to me to choose who I`ll use. Oh and isn`t Linux just another successful variant of Unix in the long run and made more universally useable than Unix was but I guess thats not stealing. |
| #7 By 12071 (203.173.25.170) at 3/9/2004 8:40:47 AM |
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#10 Who said they're not allowed to compete? By all means compete, no-one wants Microsoft to stop competing! Many just want them to compete fairly! I guess that's too much to ask! Many have no problem with Microsoft competing in the browser or media or any other market, the fact they they do pushes their competitors products to improve! But don't compete by using your desktop monopoly all the time, compete on fair terms. Don't imbed your products so they cannot be removed by the end users! Give the users some choice!
A few years ago, before Microsoft lobbied the right people in the right places, there was an idea floating around to break Microsoft up into separate companies. Personally at the time I thought this was quite drastic and didn't see the advantage to consumers - really the greatest advantage is to competitors. But if you really think about it, the greatest advantage to competitors usually ends up as being the greatest advantage to consumers in the long run. Just about everyone agrees that a modern OS should have things such as a web browser and a media player in it. Some would argue that an anti-virus application and a firewall are just as important as those other two! So give the consumers a choice. When installing Windows, you as a consumer should be allowed to choose which application you want - because realistically, the majority of users who have those applications pre-installed and uninstallable will NEVER EVER go and search for a better product - they will be happy with "good enough" - and Microsoft know this! Hell, just about anyone who has thought about it for more than 5 minutes knows this! And that is precisely why competitors don't like the advantage that Microsoft has of pushing their own products. Maybe you consider their competitors to be a bunch of cry babies - in several circumstances I completely agree with you, there are several companies that should have concentrated on competition rather than law suits - but the point is that they are not competing on level terms. And this is the main reason why they have an issue with Microsoft I think. |
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