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• Gentlemen, start your anti-virus appliances...
  Oviously M$ is no longer worried about their reputation with US programmers, if they were, they would more discrete with their plans overseas. As a side note: When Dell Computers got all the bad press about using foreign techies for phone support, they countered with new marketing compaign featuring a white techie and a white user, trying to convince me that I can call them 24/7 and not need a translator. What does that tell ya....
  
  I am curious, how many households in the Asian belt can afford to purchase M$ products? Maybe not big sales numbers for single users, but many corporations can afford to use M$ products. Previous articles posted over the last few years stated that the Asian market was forced to develope a less expensive desktop OS solution to accomodate the lanquage and budgets limitations of companies and the not so average user. Then M$ planned to offer a less expensive, lite version of windows and other products to entice the foreign market, but it would appear that it may be too little to late. I cannot imagine a person making $100 a week/month going out thier way to purchase XP Pro and Office. Open souce is and will continue to be the biggest player in the third world markets. Maybe M$ is quietly buying up/out any competing products and bribing open source developers in the Asian Belt to counter the open source push overseas. One solution to to ease some of the pain associated with the M$ propoganda machine, just buy lots of Microsoft MSFT stock.

  November 16, 2004

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• Gentlemen, start your anti-virus appliances...
  Oviously M$ is no longer worried about their reputation with US programmers, if they were, they would more discrete with their plans overseas. As a side note: When Dell Computers got all the bad press about using foreign techies for phone support, they countered with new marketing compaign featuring a white techie and a white user, trying to convince me that I can call them 24/7 and not need a translator. What does that tell ya....
  
  I am curious, how many households in the Asian belt can afford to purchase M$ products? Maybe not big sales numbers for single users, but many corporations can afford to use M$ products. Previous articles posted over the last few years stated that the Asian market was forced to develope a less expensive desktop OS solution to accomodate the lanquage and budgets limitations of companies and the not so average user. Then M$ planned to offer a less expensive, lite version of windows and other products to entice the foreign market, but it would appear that it may be too little to late. I cannot imagine a person making $100 a week/month going out thier way to purchase XP Pro and Office. Open souce is and will continue to be the biggest player in the third world markets. Maybe M$ is quietly buying up/out any competing products and bribing open source developers in the Asian Belt to counter the open source push overseas. One solution to to ease some of the pain associated with the M$ propoganda machine, just buy lots of Microsoft MSFT stock.

  November 16, 2004

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• Gentlemen, start you anti-virus appliances...
  Oviously M$ is no longer worried about their reputation with US programmers, if they were, they would more discrete with their plans overseas. As a side note: When Dell Computers got all the bad press about using foreign techies for phone support, they countered with new marketing compaign featuring a white techie and a white user, trying to convince me that I can call them 24/7 and not need a translator. What does that tell ya....
  
  I am curious, how many households in the Asian belt can afford to purchase M$ products? Maybe not big sales numbers for single users, but many corporations can afford to use M$ products. Previous articles posted over the last few years stated that the Asian market was forced to develope a less expensive desktop OS solution to accomodate the lanquage and budgets limitations of companies and the not so average user. Then M$ planned to offer a less expensive, lite version of windows and other products to entice the foreign market, but it would appear that it may be too little to late. I cannot imagine a person making $100 a week/month going out thier way to purchase XP Pro and Office. Open souce is and will continue to be the biggest player in the third world markets. Maybe M$ is quietly buying up/out any competing products and bribing open source developers in the Asian Belt to counter the open source push overseas. One solution to to ease some of the pain associated with the M$ propoganda machine, just buy lots of Microsoft MSFT stock.

  November 16, 2004

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• Gentlemen, start you anti-virus appliances...
  Oviously M$ is no longer worried about their reputation with US programmers, if they were, they would more discrete with their plans overseas. As a side note: When Dell Computers got all the bad press about using foreign techies for phone support, they countered with new marketing compaign featuring a white techie and a white user, trying to convince me that I can call them 24/7 and not need a translator. What does that tell ya....
  
  I am curious, how many households in the Asian belt can afford to purchase M$ products? Maybe not big sales numbers for single users, but many corporations can afford to use M$ products. Previous articles posted over the last few years stated that the Asian market was forced to develope a less expensive desktop OS solution to accomodate the lanquage and budgets limitations of companies and the not so average user. Then M$ planned to offer a less expensive, lite version of windows and other products to entice the foreign market, but it would appear that it may be too little to late. I cannot imagine a person making $100 a week/month going out thier way to purchase XP Pro and Office. Open souce is and will continue to be the biggest player in the third world markets. Maybe M$ is quietly buying up/out any competing products and bribing open source developers in the Asian Belt to counter the open source push overseas. One solution to to ease some of the pain associated with the M$ propoganda machine, just buy lots of Microsoft MSFT stock.

  November 16, 2004

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• at least Apple is consistent...
  One thing I learned about Apple over the years.... the
  employees are like a set of disposable diapers....
  ...*

  April 14, 2004

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• Big fat carrot... $ and marketshare
  Of course Adobe is chasing the big fat carot offered up by the
  Big M....
  remember, it's "show me the money"
  Besides, OSX was going through it's usual set of engineering
  gyrations before it landed it's feet on the 10.3.x. pad. Adobe
  wants solid platform to work with... and XP was going to be
  there first.
  jlemcke

  April 1, 2004

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• Who cares...
  Framemaker on Mac is not a big deal... it was a more popular
  and robust program on Sun anyway... if it can run on Sun... it
  can be ported to OSX...
  jl

  March 24, 2004

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• Who cares...
  Framemaker on Mac is not a big deal... it was a more popular
  and robust program on Sun anyway... if it can run on Sun... it
  can be ported to OSX...
  jl

  March 24, 2004

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• Who cares...
  Framemaker on Mac is not a big deal... it was a more popular
  and robust program on Sun anyway... if it can run on Sun... it
  can be ported to OSX...
  jl

  March 24, 2004

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• Who cares...
  Framemaker on Mac is not a big deal... it was a more popular
  and robust program on Sun anyway... if it can run on Sun... it
  can be ported to OSX...
  jl

  March 24, 2004

  0 replies