old_gamer said:
DirtyP2002 said:
kowenicki said:
Severance said:
btw do you guys (Kowen and DirtyP) work with microsoft? or previously worked with them? i always see you guys very protective towards MS. |
no... but i know a few that do/have.
I'm not overly protective of MS either, I just hate the false bullshit that gets thrown around. MS = Evil, Sony = Good. It's just bollocks mainly thrown around by teenage fanboys that dont know the first thing about business or life.
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same here.
MS is attacked from left and right and most of the time they are totally wrong. Sure MS does make some mistakes (like RRoD) but people forget that they really created a lot of great things. People say MS is the one company that wants all your money, copies and loves to destroy competition. A lot of people forgot that they really saved Apple. Apple was broke, the company would not exist today without the help of MS. That is the reason why I am not a fan of the ads Apple is airing contra the PC and not pro Mac. Never forget where you are coming from.
A lot of cyber Che Guevaras just hate on MS, because they don't know better. MS wants to make money, but somehow this is a bad thing for MS and okay for every other company.
Look, this video will make some people think MS is a bad employer, but the reality is totally different. MS is one or the best employer you can imagine. Just check the links I posted. This is what I really don't like. I don't buy products because there is a MS brand on it.
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Not again....
Microsoft DID not "SAVE" Apple.
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This piece of misinformation comes around from time to time. This was in fact a part of settlement agreement due to Microsoft "borrowing" some code from quicktime and a long standing patent lawsuit on that issue.
The "mistake" was stealing the code that lead to this event, not the token $150M investment itself.
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there were patent issues, but you have to be a fool to think MS did not save apple. 150m dollar investment and offering office on a Mac (!!! That is like publishing Halo on the PS3, just bigger.) is far more than Apple could have ever got out of this patent-stuff. Even today it would hurt Apple if MS says they won't publish any Office software on the mac from now on.
check this vid. You can hear how Steve Jobs knows that MS just saved them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxOp5mBY9IY
