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in article pgci409rmcrlauk1fuf0meon8conldnbjr@4ax.com, Mayor of R'lyeh at
ev515o@hotmail.com wrote on 3/5/04 6:06 PM:

Good for Microsoft, the industry and consumers, bad for one greedy company
that looked at Microsoft, saw dollar signs and decided to take a chance. I
hope they lost a bundle in legal fees.

Now maybe Microsoft can use some of that $49 billion in legal cache to make
some improvements in its long neglected consumer products.

On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 02:06:38 +0000, Mayor of R'lyeh wrote:

good, that's one that they should have won. and maybe now apple and
macromedia will not have to install the hacks pointed to on this page to
work around the eolas patent:

http://www.mozilla.org/press/eolas.html

Mayor of R'lyeh <ev515o@hotmail.com> wrote:

Actually, this is quite good for all of us.

--
Andrew J. Brehm
Fan of Woody Allen
PowerPC User
Supporter of Pepperoni Pizza

In article <pgci409rmcrlauk1fuf0meon8conldnbjr@4ax.com>,
Mayor of R'lyeh <ev515o@hotmail.com> wrote:

I guess this is one of those rare moments when M$ is on the right side
of a lawsuit.

--
C Lund, www.notam02.no/~clund

C Lund wrote:

Agreed, this could have been a disaster for everyone, Macromedia, Apple
included.

-Richard

In article <BC6E780D.340EC%OhNoSPAM@pacbell.net>, MR_ED_of_Course
<OhNoSPAM@pacbell.net> wrote:

Doubtful. If you look over what they've concentrated on for the last 5
years, you'll see that taking care of their users really isn't on their
radar much anymore. They want to be a big media company. Who knows why?
Probably steadier cash flow or something compared to the spikes you get
from software upgrade cycles. They certainly aren't pouring a great
deal of energy into software anymore. The most glaring evidence is the
perpetually slipping date for Longhorn and the sudden appearance of a
previously unheard-of XP update, but there are lots of other little
bits of evidence. They don't care anymore obviously.

On 2004-03-06 22:26:15 -0500, zurg <zurg@fakeaddress.com> said:

Microsoft's core business is developer tools; and they have been
putting *lots* of effort into those over the last few years. They know
that as long as they get apps written for Windows, nothing else matters
very much.

Well, they say Longhorn will be a very ambitious release. Introducing a
new API is a pretty radical (and risky) step for Microsoft. I don't
think they'd try it if they didn't care.

Perhaps it's this ambition, rather than apathy, that's lead to the very
long schedule and the need for an interim OS release.

I submit that they do care, as they always have, about keeping
developers on Windows. If they've neglected consumer products (and I
wasn't aware that they had) perhaps it's because they've re-focused on
their core business.

So, they care. They just don't care about *you*.

On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 09:40:41 -0500, Daniel Johnson wrote:

micro$oft's core business is selling micro$oft software, beginning with
window$, and then Office.

They care about keeping ALL their customers locked into micro$oft.

They don't care about you, in particular, either.
--
Rick