Microsoft Pulling Plug on Windows 98, 98 SE and ME

[Dr. Love]

Originally posted by flappo
cheap clunky copies of a slick original

how 'very' pc

Linux and BSD crack me up in the series they do. Funny stuff.

As for Mac, I don't care about them one way or another. They have a small percentage of the market share, and I don't see them changing that anytime soon unless they start having native support for windows applications, which won't happen.

Ranting that MS sucks and that Mac is the pwn isn't going to change that. Mac just isn't able to compete with MS in any meaningful way that will change the way things are.

Even Linux has a better shot at it, and that's not very complimentary.

[Dr. Love]

Originally posted by MERRYKISSMASS2U
Extremely insightful. I've really never thought of that before.


The "Macs can't play games" argument is bullshit. If I wanted to, I could run windows on the very machine that I'm typing on. However, I just don't fucking want to.

That sounds like an argument against the PC more than it does an argument against MS, given that you just said you could run Windows if you wanted to (presumably to play games that OS-X can't run.)

But then... Macs are giving up their proprietary processors in favor of Intel, so...?

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

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Don't you just love how DRM isn't mentioned once?

[Panamark]

Apple invented proprietary.

[flappo]

mainly as they do 'the whole thingpackage

ms's attitude is let the market decide and control things , often to the detriment of the end product

explains why they have NO control over anything and why there are so many problems with a pc

they just pass the buck , and take YOUR buck while they're at it

;

leopard = $149 - one size fits all

from a mac mini to a four core mac pro

vista = anything from $149 to $399

and it's still lame compared to tiger , let alone leopard

[Nickdfresh]

My sister in law still runs ME. She actually got pissed when I downloaded FREE Mcafee security software because it slowed things down a bit. But her Norton was outdated by about four years...