| theprof00 said: Please excuse my drunken-ness, but will it ever make a difference? No. People will continue to rant about Sony DRM, or note its failed inventions, and many of these peoples will support MS products. No offense meant to anyone, just complaining about double-standards. |
Your drunkness is always excused prof.
But I don't think the complaint applies to me. When OpenOffice became as good as MS word I switched to it. I switched back with the newer version of word because it is genuienly better for scientific reports that don't warrant use of LaTeX. I switched to Mac during the Vista years and back now (it was a hard choice, but I got a good deal on a W7 based computer that Apple couldn't match at the time) I don't use IE, bing, GFWL or any other MS products.
As for why this is a big deal, it now means that there is almost no competition amongst search providers. Yahoo now uses bing, which uses google. The only unique one is Alpha, and that's hardly an every day thing
