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Wow. Not often you see troll bait featured as an actual post.

Are they still trolls when the content is right and the object of they're trolling is risible to say the least though?

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That background sound has got to go. I almost want to flag this article just for that.

edit: Oooh. Awesome. You only hear it if you visit the site in Internet Explorer. It's this type of immature, irrational Microsoft hatred that makes all of the folks who avoid MS products for good reasons look bad.

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post #5

That background sound has got to go. I almost want to flag this article just for that. edit: Oooh. Awesome. You only hear it if you visit the site in Internet Explorer. It's this type of immature, irrational Microsoft hatred that makes all of the folks who avoid MS products for good reasons look bad.

Come on, IE? Really?

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Another quote from Ray Ozzie: "Microsoft is a pernicious form of American capitalism."

(I can't find the quote anywhere, but I read it in 1996 in a magazine in Germany, loved it, and remembered it. I could be wrong, though.)

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post #5

That background sound has got to go. I almost want to flag this article just for that. edit: Oooh. Awesome. You only hear it if you visit the site in Internet Explorer. It's this type of immature, irrational Microsoft hatred that makes all of the folks who avoid MS products for good reasons look bad.

Come on, IE? Really?

Really. Haha. Ask me about it sometime.

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He isn't lying. If there had been no Microsoft, there would be no commodity PC market, and little competition in hardware for home or work PCs. Moore's law would still be there, but it might just be a means for increasing profit margin or enabling ever-more-bloated systems, under strict control by manufacturers.

The web might exist but as a phenomenon among people who buy weird computers like NeXTs.

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