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Listed below are comments made by super_tux between Sunday, 4th May 2008 and Sunday, 4th May 2008.

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Walking away... 10:20am on 04 May 2008 I think it is a shame but for a rather perverse reason! The idea of Microsoft effectively throwing away tens of billions of dollars comforted me as it could only expedite their eventual demise. I live, work and breath IT and it is becoming crystal clear the future is based on the Google model not the Microsoft one. When I look at my all my gadgets and gizmo's I see the common link being the internet not the PC. Microsoft have never done the internet well, they don't understand the idea of providing the commodity for free and making the money on the service. If they had purchased Yahoo, they would have tried to tie people in to their software and their protocols making the whole thing very inflexible, just look at IE with its ActiveX, MSN instant messenger, Media Player, Office... ? That is the Microsoft way and it seems a very outdated way of doing business in the 21st Century. My Asus eee does not run Windows, nor does my phone nor my media centre nor my games console. In fact everything I now use to connect the the internet on a regular basis would not benefit at all from Microsoft software in any way, shape or form! My Apple runs OSX, My PC runs Kubuntu, as does my wife's, my son's and even my ten year old daughter's! And like everyone else I know, our home pages are all set to www.google.co.uk! For me, anything Microsoft is just something extra to uninstall.
Microsoft vs Yahoo - post-match analysis 09:34am on 04 May 2008 I think it is a shame but for a rather perverse reason! The idea of Microsoft effectively throwing away tens of billions of dollars comforted me as it could only expedite their eventual demise. I live, work and breath IT and it is becoming crystal clear the future is based on the Google model not the Microsoft one. When I look at my all my gadgets and gizmo's I see the common link being the internet not the PC. Microsoft have never done the internet well, they don't understand the idea of providing the commodity for free and making the money on the service. If they had purchased Yahoo, they would have tried to tie people in to their software and their protocols making the whole thing very inflexible, just look at MSN, Media Player, Office... – That is the Microsoft way and it seems a very outdated way of doing business. My Asus eee does not run Windows, nor does my phone or my media centre or my games console. In fact everything I now use to connect the the internet on a regular basis would not benefit at all from Microsoft software in any way, shape or form – My PC runs Kubuntu, as does my wife's, my son's and even my ten year old daughter'a! And like everyone else I know, our home pages are all set to www.google.co.uk!

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