Microsoft should spank em'

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by MaggieL

But as it is they have no choice...and we'll see how happy they are about that state of affairs when we get to that MSFT nirvana where you get a software bill every month that left unpaid will cause your machine to stop working. Don't kid yourself: the phone-home-or-die infrastructure for that is being (quite visibly) laid as we speak.

I don't see MSFT as a problem unless you're using stolen software, which I'm not.

In any event...the state you see today is not some magical thing billg did out of kindness for us all to make computing easy, something that no one else could have concieved of or done. That's MSFT spin, PR and propiganda, concieved after the fact.

But "they" didn't, Gates did, and for that I'm grateful.