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FS : Windows Database
Alex Butcher alex.butcher.news0...@assursys.co.uk alt consumers uk-discounts and bargains On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 00:48:25 +0100, Chris Game wrote: Alex Butcher Even if the total cost of the subsidy is picked up by the marketing budget, that just means the rest of us Windows/Office users have to pay the cost.

Petition the DOJ to unbundle IE4, from W9x OS-Anti-trust!
At the time I write this, Microsoft is in the *process of releasing Windows/Office XP, and this release signals a *historical departure for Microsoft. Consumers have legitimate, lawful reasons to *re-install software, reasons to install the software on two machines used by *one person, reasons to re-install

FS : DC120 KODAK DIGITAL CAMERA $300
At the time I write this, Microsoft is in the process of releasing Windows/Office XP, and this release signals a historical departure for Microsoft. Consumers have legitimate, lawful reasons to re-install software, reasons to install the software on two machines used by one person, reasons to re-install after a

The Intellectual Property Farce
MacBU decided to go ahead and sell Office 2008 with VBA. This gives them a real world test (whether they wanted to test this or not) as to how the market would react to the removal of VBA and what consumers and developers would do without it. The MacBU faced a triple bind. Loss of VBA. Windows Office changed the

Stupid unknowings
And Ted Smith, head of the Silcon Valley Toxics Coalition, argued that whlie HP's program "has some elements of an acceptable program," the company and the industry in general shouldn't make the consumer pay. Then stopping making us pay for Windows/Office even when we want to instal Linux or even DOS along with the

Apple selling Newton to Sun? STUPID MOVE
Consumers would start to chose software based on features, instead of just what comes on their PC. Then, we'd start to see true innovation. ---------- From: bsdg@googlegroups.com Next, look at the price of Windows/Office when compared to most of their competition. But we don't really have a choice, do we?

MS remedy: Open source Windows & Office apps - who loses?
It didn't exactly gain marketshare after MS went Windows. DOS 7 is alive and well. Take a look under the hood of Win98 some time. They make the following products: * Office suites Free Star Office * Consumer OSs Linux * Server OSs Linux * Server applications Apache * development tools <Long line of non-GUI GNU

Why Linux, and X.11 when MacOS 'X' is around the corner?
We also see the advantages to non-shared IP, but note that those advantages rarely work in favor of the consumer. pfffttt!! The non-shared IP of MS\Windows\Office has resulted in an explosion of worldwide computer literacy, based on the Windows\Office standard. In the process, MS has generated more wealth for more

'advocacy' wars -- really needed?
Here's one analysis: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071018-dell-staunches- the-market-shar e-bleeding-while-apple-sees-big-growth.html Gates & co. does not want Apple consumers to bolt to Google, Apple or Sun for Office applications. Virtualization is all the rage in the PC camp right now, so to them it is

Attn DFS - was Re: How much did you pay ?
My second is calling my local office of consumer protection and file a complaint. I don't see why I would need to buy a full version of their OS just because I did a motherboard/CPU change. I think there's a law someplace that a product has to be able to perform it's stated purpose.

WPWIN8 ERROR
but there are far more in the Windows realm. THAT was why I switched. People are starting to see "the light." Consumers don't want to be pulled around by Is there more quantity on Windows where Office 2000 is the "dominate" product, even though there theoretically a few other "choices" compared to Linux where

Caution: NIMDA Virus
They usually set the machines to generate copious amounts of ozone, and run them overnight with windows and air ducts leading to places where there are people Bernstein expressed her appreciation to the Department of Justice's Office of Consumer Litigation and the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern

Why hasn't Forté already included Ignore Subthread?
At work I've always been forced to use Windows. I accept that. However, we know that Microsoft manufactures Office for both platforms, and indeed, that for the Mac In a past career I sold Apple computers and software both to consumers and businesses and IMO, the average Mac user has always been more savvy and

The ecology of computer viruses
Addresses for the federal agencies are: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Division of Consumer and Community Affairs 20th & Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20551 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Office of Consumer Affairs 550 Seventeenth Street, NW Washington, DC 20429 Office of Thrift

What does volgroup00 means?
I later read where side windows have imploded near children in the van.....on woman got a NEW van when this happened to her child (uess Chrysler was worried Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection 6th and Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20580 Attn: White House Office of Consumer Affairs The White

Problems to install Office 2000 in NT
Chris Game chrisg...@example.net alt consumers uk-discounts and bargains Alex Butcher wrote: This is quite right, both for the education and the health systems in Even if the total cost of the subsidy is picked up by the marketing budget, that just means the rest of us Windows/Office users have to pay the cost.

Even with giveaway prices from Microsoft, Thai's prefer Linux...
<snip> But a 25Mhz 386 running a simple DOS spreadsheet, or a 266 Mhz system running that spreadsheet in dosemu on Linux blows a 1 GHz system running Windows/Office 2000 right out of the water. We've been trading down in speed for the basic applications. Even with the processing intensive multimedia apps we have

Tips increasing beyond rate of inflation
It's bad enough that we HAD to buy the computer with either Microsoft's Windows 98 or Windows NT operating system, but it was surpassing irksome to also have to buy Microsoft's Office software. There seems to be no end to Microsoft's taking choice away from consumers with their operating system monopoly.

Review of Midwest Micro P100
They do it anyway, and this benefits consumers. As Pascal has pointed out, it benefits Microsoft consumers. Yes. This is quite a lot of them, however. Do you propose that Gateway execs are too dumb to figure out that unless Windows+Office costs less that Windows, they are getting a discount, not on Windows,

Windows XP
Edu comp os ms-windows win95 setup Following conventional wisdom could get you in trouble. Take for example Rule #1 of computing, which is: "Make backups of .... fact" - or you can contact the information office at your State Attorney General's Office of Consumer Protection (which every state has), and ask them.