LOL. Microsoft is charging for its browser because Windows aint free.
What Ed? You mean to tell me Bill was lying when he said IE was free forever? I'm shocked, shocked! that Bill would do such a thing. Your stunning relevation also has me wondering about IE for Macintosh and Unix. MacOS and Unix are Windows variants now? Or is that just Microsoft trying to break into new competitive and lucrative mass markets for (free) software? Can you explain this please? Offhand, I'd guess it's all part of Bill's postmodern economics, but I don't know. I get confused, Bill's vision sort of looks like a planned economy to me. "Now we are all communists".
What staff? The latest bull run in the markets can be mostly attributed to downsizing. Companies don't want expensive UNIX guru's
running around looking for something to do.
You wouldn't happen to be related to that other ed would you? You think Unix gurus are expensive relative to the army of new wave Microsoft guys managing the periodic reformat, reinstall thing in large scale Windows deployments? Or, are these TCO studies just another disinformation scheme by the nefarious international ilk conspiracy? Where does that $10k/year/seat go?
It's not that everybody has to know how to debug the OS, but it's nice if there's somebody around that can do it, when it's called for. At least on large scale, "mission critical" deployments. Like, say, the propulsion system on a warship. It wouldn't be such a big problem if the OS was relatively stable to begin with. But, I'm sure when Microsoft ships NT5, now 35million lines of code and counting, it'll all be much, much better.
Anyway, I look forward to your innovative explanation on IE for Mac and Unix. There must be some explanation, but I think the hobgoblin of small minds is again impairing my comprehension.
Cheers, Dan. |
