Microsoft Updates Zune Software for Vista

Ok Waethorn......Merry Christmas

Hope you find something nice and open minded under your tree this year....

Seriously, Have a peaceful holiday season...

honestly tho, u should check out this page:

microsoft.com/getthefacts

some nice customer vids on there

"How about college boys who don't have the wear-with-all to admit when they are wrong? Or is it that they don't have the brains upstairs or diligence to work with something else other than their favorite recipe?"

I dunno, what about you?

"pigheaded?"

YES! pigheaded. Many of the same people that switch are the same people that would otherwise advocate for OSX - just because it isn't Microsoft. Many are also the kind of people that would say "Why should I pay for an OS when I can get Linux for free?".

"difficult?"

YES! difficult. How many average users know how to recompile the kernel? How many know how to install drivers in Linux?

"incompatible?"

YES! incompatible. It doesn't run the majority of software on the market. Wine is not exactly legal either. Microsoft could just easily inspect the source code and even if the authors didn't decompile the original code, if theirs is too close to Microsoft's, Microsoft could turn around and sue them for one of two things: intellectual property indemnification, or breaching the license agreement which states you can't disassemble the software. Either of which would come with VERY hefty fines, that I'm sure the Wine authors would never be able to afford.

I would say that Vista's hardware compatibility list is greater than any flavour of Linux available now, and the quality of drivers for Linux is very poor. WHQL drivers for Windows are the most stable drivers I've ever seen bar-none.

Here's the thing about open-source software - under the GPL and many other licenses, there is little to no protection against intellectual property indemnification. Whereas Microsoft, on the other hand, has no monetary limit for protection of its customers/partners in regards to any indemnification cases.

The best quote I found from a Windows Server customer regarding Linux Server was:

"I am not going to make a critical, perhaps business-risking decision, on a piece of freeware."

I like that one.

pigheaded? difficult? incompatible? How about college boys who don't have the wear-with-all to admit when they are wrong? Or is it that they don't have the brains upstairs or diligence to work with something else other than their favorite recipe?

......oh and keep selling those copies of Windows....it helps keep me busy.....ya I love it too.....

"Besides, Microsoft's buggy Windows operating system keep me hopping with work....you've got to love it"

and pigheaded people that download Linux to try an alternative OS instead of purchasing an OEM copy of Windows with the rest of their PC parts also end up switching back when they realize how difficult or incompatible it is. it's driven sales of retail copies of Windows pretty high for me, and i love it!



now for some fun:

http://tinyurl.com/ymyolj

g0d, i love me some iPod smoothies!