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States Might Ask For Cheap Windows
by Maarten Goldstein, Dec 06, 2001 6:51am PSTSeveral U.S. states are still not done with Microsoft. In the latest development in the long going antitrust case the states might ask Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to order Microsoft to release a stripped down version of Windows, a version which would also so be cheaper. The draft remedy also calls for the return of Java in Windows XP and Office being compatible with other software platform. This remedy is an alternative to the department of justice's settlement suggestion where nothing much happens to MS.
In the settlement, Microsoft has agreed to take steps to give computer makers more freedom to feature rival software on their machines. The deal also requires the company to share parts of the inner workings of its Windows operating system with other software makers. [ ... ] But Microsoft rivals and some consumer groups have panned the deal as weak and ineffectual. They say the agreement will not stop Microsoft from retaliating against personal computer makers that promote non-Microsoft software.
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Sounds very nice. I will take one copy please.
I've been wanting a version like this all along.
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microsoft is changing the nature of technology by closing it up instead of keeping it open.
imagine that in the future, microsoft is the only operating system. astronauts on the space station suddenly see a blue screen of death on the life support system's screen. now, they have to fix it before it's too late. only microsoft has a completely closed-source system, with no compatibilities with other systems. what do you do, hot shot?
you die.
the government is doing what us consumers and people want, which is for microsoft to play by the rules and to stop hindering us with their closed minded "technology". the government is not just doing this because they want to break up microsoft. they're doing this because that's what a large number of people in our country want.
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I for one am sickened by this proposal, and I only hope that the rest of you are, too.
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Outlaw the sale and use of Intel and Athlon products... thereby FORCING Microsoft to write software for hardware - which is a platform that their competition already more then enough experience to effectly give Microsoft a run for their money.
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can we get the state to ask for cheap women while they are at it?
Windows XP Lean. Works great, less filling!
that is all i have to say
The States want Microsoft to include Sun's Java virtual machine. Up till now, Microsoft has been bundling their own, considerably shittier JVM with Windows to hamstring Java efforts.
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You should punish people for the things they've done, not in anticipation of what you think they might do.
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so unless Sun hands over an installer for their up-to-date Java 1.4 JVM, I hope MS keeps Java away from fresh installs of Windows. It's just not worth it for developers to develop for an old (and potentially buggy) version of Java.
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http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm#vi
Here's an excerpt for those of you that can't be bothered (small txt):
390. Microsoft easily could have implemented Sun's native method along with its own in its developer tools and its JVM, thereby allowing Java developers to choose between speed and portability; however, it elected instead to implement only the Microsoft methods. The result was that if a Java developer used the Sun method for making native calls, his application would not run on Microsoft's version of the Windows JVM, and if he used Microsoft's native methods, his application would not run on any JVM other than Microsoft's version. Far from being the unintended consequence of an attempt to help Java developers more easily develop high- performing applications, incompatibility was the intended result of Microsoft's efforts. In fact, Microsoft would subsequently threaten to use the same tactic against Apple's QuickTime. Microsoft continued to refuse to implement Sun's native method until November 1998, when a court ordered it to do so. It then took Microsoft only a few weeks to implement Sun's native method in its developer tools and JVM.
That shit is why Microsoft must put Sun's JVM into Windows.. if it puts any at all.
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Oh yeah, it's called slavery...
here's the article I wrote the last time the MS settlement was in the news:
http://clem.mscd.edu/~yettern/ms_legal.htm
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This is one of the best possible outcomes!
I'd kill for a stripped copy of XP with nothing but the kern, explorer, and perhaps that nifty calculator. Oooh, and solitare... gotta have that. ;)
I think something like that would be the best for everyone. I mean, who really needs all that crap they put into XP anyhow?
-SmArT1
>:(
hmm...
Windows XP Pro
Windows XP Home
Windows XP Shack
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Some regulation is necessary, but as always it's a fine line. Advocating either extreme is just ineffective, though.
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At least that is what my linux friends told me.
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So, which would you (and everyone else in the world) buy:
1) Windows XP Nekkid for $199
2) Windows XP Home for $199
This thing would never sell. No-one, not even the statesmen rooting for this or the script kiddies over at slashdot would buy something that's scaled down. Why?
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I think (at least I hope) what they mean is that MS will have to publish their file format for office documents, not write a version of Office for other platforms cause that would be insane!
The trimmed down version of Windows I like though.
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