Article

2004-07-07 Home Front: Tech

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Steve 2004-07-07 10:58:11 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Also, 10$ rebate: think about it - what is this buying me, and what is it doing to Microsoft anyway?

So as compensation, I obtain the opportunity to go down to the store, and give Microsoft $90 dollars instead of $100 dollars for another J. Random product - hell I was trying to move away from that platform!

Now, give me a $10 dollar coupon to buy whatever computer-related product I please, from any vendor. Give me $10 towards the purchase of some Linux distro, or towards Mac OS Panther or something - ** that's compensation **.

Giving me $10 dollars towards more MS software is just giving me a coupon to be screwed only a little less hard in my next purchase... Sheesh..

Posted by MrO 2004-07-07 1:16:18 PM|| 2004-07-07 1:16:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 think of the $10 as lube

Posted by Frank G 2004-07-07 1:29:18 PM|| 2004-07-07 1:29:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 This crap is getting totally out of hand. If people don't like Microsoft products, they don't have to buy them! The government needs to butt out.

I read that in the federal (I think) suit, the judge actually asked the courtroom how many people had Microsoft products; most of the people raised their hands, so he said that looked like a monopoly to him. Uh, gee - how about the second choice: people buy it because they like the way it works, or because it's easy to interface with other business, etc.

Wotta buncha useless, taxpayer-dollar-wasting, jealous-because-somebody-actually-invented-something-and-they-can't maroons.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-07-07 5:12:20 PM|| 2004-07-07 5:12:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Microsoft has a ton of cash, so it's an easy target. It's all about the money.

Posted by Rafael 2004-07-07 8:22:00 PM|| 2004-07-07 8:22:00 PM|| Front Page Top

14:00 Guess Who
06:18 Israel-is-a-Nazi -state
08:27 Guess Who
08:18 Guess Who
04:30 GUESS WHO
03:30 GUESS WHO
15:41 Slinert Spoluger7331
02:40 Susanna Margaryan
07:16 ed
01:57 someone
00:56 Lucky
00:37 Lucky
00:25 thoan
00:23 Bomb-a-rama
00:22 Lucky
00:02 tipper
00:01 Atomic Conspiracy
23:54 Zenster
23:51 Steve White
23:42 Mark Espinola
23:40 Zenster
23:36 Steve White
23:29 tu3031
23:27 Zhang Fei