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Hmmm. A company that strongarmed their way in, with substandard software,
who did nothing as problems began to amass while numerous other companies started to take notice while Microsoft kept watching money flow in via their predatory practices... now they are flooding the market with their own clean-up programs, and very cheaply too. Relying on their name?

Microsoft is the ONLY company that has managed to promote new products by bashing their own predecessors (the Win2000 advert I read in a magazine that really took a leak on Win95 was astonishing...) Yet people also think og Microsoft as a dependable name. That's even more astounding.

And here they are, charging people to fix their own damn problems. Yet they are paraded because their software costs less than McAfee, Norton, Trend, Lavasoft Ad-Aware, Spybot, CCleaner, Iolo System Mechanic, and the other 80 or 90 products out there that do system cleanups...

What's left to say? And trust me, you don't want to read it. But I concede. Microsoft wins. And if you can't fight the powers that be, you may as well join them - even if it means taking a leak on those you used to support. Hey, they're going to do nothing so why should the rest of us? We want to survive.
Posted by: HypnoToad   Posted on: 08/29/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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huh???  Linux Geek | 08/29/06
"Somebody is smoking somthing"  Jack-Booted EULA | 08/29/06
Don't worry  Boot_Agnostic | 08/30/06
Gee, so your saying competition is good?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/29/06
As long as Microsoft does not bundle it and prices at a level where the  DonnieBoy | 08/29/06
Competition IS putting the other guy out.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/30/06
competition  Seenidog | 08/30/06
While it lasts...  msolgeek | 08/29/06
When was the last time you can point to MSFT illegally...  marksashton | 08/29/06
Well...  zkiwi | 08/29/06
Axey, how can you say "Microsoft" and "competition" in ...  OButterball | 08/29/06
Hmmm. A company that strongarmed their way in, with substandard software,  HypnoToad | 08/29/06
hmmmmmmmm  Shelendrea | 08/29/06
Jeez Louise lady  Confused by religion | 08/29/06
but wait - my beating heart  not of this world | 08/29/06
Name and date the last one for Linux...  Linux User 147560 | 08/29/06
Sorry - sifting through the tens of thousands  Confused by religion | 08/29/06
You ask? As recently as Tuesday the 22nd 2006  the_seb | 08/30/06
BAM!  zmud | 08/30/06
Oooh, someone just got SPANKED!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/30/06
AX...  Seenidog | 08/30/06
Try again...  Linux User 147560 | 08/30/06
One more thing  Linux User 147560 | 08/30/06
Nope  Shelendrea | 08/30/06
And you say this AFTER using OneCare?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/30/06
Why yes Axey I do  Shelendrea | 08/30/06
That system probably had all that crap on it prior to One Care  Confused by religion | 08/30/06
Easy now - this is just an advertisement for vista  not of this world | 08/29/06
More innovation or less quality?  jmphilippe | 08/30/06
Windows just works  tangentjohn@... | 08/30/06
Different distros have different/sometimes same  Boot_Agnostic | 08/31/06

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