For all the people that hate Microsoft

Hey Sadil,

Why on Earth do you think it might be that consumers tend to stay away from products that don't have the Windows Seal of Approval? Hmmm . . .

We are still in the fledgling days of the Computer Revolution. Guess what you would have without a Microsoft monopoly??? You would have absolute chaos!!! Thank God that in the early days we all (or at least 90% of us) have been able to agree on one thing and all the efforts of hardware and software companies have been dedicated to making Windows products. This is the best way to get the industry off the ground. The monopoly has already peaked and the competitors to Windows will continue to increase market share little by little.

The government is trying to engineer competition when it's totally enevitable! The government is trying to punish one of the biggest contributers to this unprecedented period of productivity and economic expansion.

I am as proud to be an American as any person could be, but this oppressive, fat, bloated government of ours often fills me with an urge to vomit.

The Rest Of The World (u do know who that is don't you?) is already vomiting.

I have nothing against Windows other than it has suddenly taken a huge hunger for my spare space on my hard disk. VB is great QB 4.5 was great.

Microsoft have good business plan to make their products more popular they make programming languages which anyone can go out and buy to create a program for Windows. Now last time i looked you couldn't does this with a MAC, could you?........Gates could just get around that selling thng and sell it to his wife...using her maiden name. hehehehe problem solved......he's happy most of us are happy and the US governmen has got the shits but who cares what they think?

=-)

When it comes to Microsoft, I have no shame in saying I hate them. I respect the DoJ's verdict, as one must see it from this point of view: Microsoft has never given any devloper a chance. Even us VB devlopers have been hurt by Microsoft.

Microsoft was happily sending out dev kits with bad documentation about winsock LONG after IE4 was released. Also, great, BG donates MILLIONS, but what about the over 75 BILLION he has left? He is being an a$$h()l3 with his sadistic taunts... I would respect him more if he donated several billion, mainly because it woulden't hurt him.

Also, this donation issue, it's only a tax write off for him[Gates]. He only looks better. In the long run, he is ripping off the American Government (who, I'm sure, would put more money into charity, if corperations would give money to them). Just think: PR at the price of the public purse!

I do respect Bill Gates for being fast. He also prooved to be dedicated to his cause to begin with, but, like an erect male organ, he seems to have become flaccid in these past years.

Any complaints about Windows I feel are not Bill Gates' fault. They are that of the Window's programmers. They are, for some mysterious reason, pressured to kick a product out the door. Sure, I use VB, but I have never made anything that triggered a GPF, or other problems.

That was my 2 cents.

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Ill i have to say TO ALL YOU is i hate micro$oft and i would never study Vi$uAl bA$Ic... or whatever you people call it...
hmmmpff!! @ the thought of being a micro$oft programmer...

DOH!!!!!!!!!!!Opps!!!!!!!! hum ..ill shut up now .


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I don't like Willy Gates :(

I don't like Willy Gates :(

Bill gates is my role model.

Bill Gates ate my homework.

I've never ever seen so many spelling mistakes in one thread. Let's blame Bill Gates! :mad:

How the hell did you find this four year old thread anyway visual? Were you purposely looking for a dead thread to digup?

Are you happy dsheller?

Sure =)

visualAd and Bill Gates bump old posts.


EVIL I tell you. EEEEVVVVIIIILLLLLLL!

How do you necessarily hate a corporation anyway?

Isn't that stereotyping?

"You work at Microsoft, therefore you must suck!"

This thread obviously started before the fashionable world of being politically correct dawned.

Marketing at any company promises stuff that never gets delivered- that's the whole point of marketing.

Beer commercials promise good times and scantily -clad women. I can tell you one thing, when I open a beer, the only chance of a scantily-clad woman I'll see is my wife... should I hate Anheiser Bush for false advertising?

So now that I understand the basic principle of marketing I should shut my mouth and agree with everything billy G does?

You can do what you wish, just know, Billy G doesn't write the brochure, nor does he stamp his approval on it. Further, he is nowadays probably just as removed from decision making at Microsoft as you and I are.

Microsoft is a corporation owned by huge financial institutions. Whom hire cut throat directors, whom hire cut-throat executives... whom hire cut-throat advertising and marketing.

Not only Microsoft, but just about any other corporation you could fathom. You act like you're appalled by this and single out Microsoft among just about every corporation on the planet.

Does a Hemi in a Dodge truck really make it powerful? Because hemi technology has been around since the 50's... its nothing new, nothing special. But let the marketing get a hold of it... a wow... its got a HEMI under the hood.

Was Pepsi the choice of a new generation?

You want to really feel ripped off? Go to a football game for just about any NFL team... with tickets selling between $150 and $500.

Is John Kerry a coward like the Republican advertising states? I don't think so, the guy went to Vietnam of all places. He is far removed from being a coward.

Thats why somehow the ability to filter BS was given to us, does marketing really get to you? I dont think so, I was told once that marketing was actually targeted for kids under 5 with no judgment whatsoever so they can develop loyalty to some brand based on the appealing of a commercial. :sick:

Marketing gets to everyone... the statistics prove it. You can be aware of something and still be affected by it just the same.