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Old 09-03-2009, 07:36 AM   #1
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Check out this review about the open source :))


I was shitting in my pants whilst i was reading this.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/17124...xperience.html
 
Old 09-03-2009, 07:50 AM   #2
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He's a laugh a minute, the c********r who wrote that.
 
Old 09-03-2009, 07:52 AM   #3
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Oh Good grief! How the hell does an piece as worthless as that even get published?
 
Old 09-03-2009, 07:56 AM   #4
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Oh Good grief! How the hell does an piece as worthless as that even get published?
Under the influence of M$. Backhanders from The Redmond FUD Fund.
 
Old 09-03-2009, 08:07 AM   #5
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They're really afraid... What is "Windows Experience"?
 
Old 09-03-2009, 08:10 AM   #6
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I was shitting in my pants whilst i was reading this.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/17124...xperience.html
LMAO...yet another idiot writer. It is a good thing that his opinion piece is unbiased and balanced.
What a moron.

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It's like a cancer: a creeping, deadly disease that slowly erodes all that's good and clean, replacing it with a swill of malignancy and decrepitude.

I'm speaking, of course, of the recent appearance of Linux UI conventions under Windows. From the simplest open source utilities to the most polished commercial offerings, the stench of Linux is now permeating many of my favorite programs.
 
Old 09-03-2009, 08:10 AM   #7
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Oh, don't you worry the evil empire most people worship has good things in store for all:

Microsoft Pushes For Single Global Patent System
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/0...-Patent-System
 
Old 09-03-2009, 08:25 AM   #8
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Nice one PCWorld for posting this crap. Is this a serious article I wonder or just a joke ?
 
Old 09-03-2009, 08:33 AM   #9
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Well, that's has convinced me. I've made my mind up. I'm going to surgically remove a cancer from my laptop: M$ Windup ExPee Pro. That was the last straw. This was the penultimate one:

http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/ne...hich-broke-law

Microsoft doing their bully-boy act on the small firm/store where I got my computers.

Last edited by brianL; 09-03-2009 at 08:58 AM.
 
Old 09-03-2009, 08:44 AM   #10
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Nice one PCWorld for posting this crap. Is this a serious article I wonder or just a joke ?
PCWorld have always been biased in favour of Windows, so I think it might be serious (for those who take it seriously, anyway).
 
Old 09-03-2009, 08:45 AM   #11
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Number 1 commandment of M$:
Do as I say, not as I do
 
Old 09-03-2009, 09:01 AM   #12
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Open Source Is Polluting the Windows Experience
Are you sure? Click Yes or No...

Quote:
It's like a cancer: a creeping, deadly disease that slowly erodes all that's good and clean, replacing it with a swill of malignancy and decrepitude.
Are you really sure? Click Yes or No...

Code:
Delete all Open Source from this computer?
Are you still sure? Click Yes or No...

Code:
Please enter your MS serial number for confirmation.
xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx
Click OK...

Code:
ERROR: Serial number invalid.
Click OK...

Code:
YET ANOTHER ERROR: Too many attempts to enter serial number.
Shutting down system...
Click whatever you want, Open Source is here to stay.
 
Old 09-03-2009, 09:49 AM   #13
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They're really afraid... What is "Windows Experience"?
Windows experience: - virus's , trojans, worms, and lets not forget that big blue screen.
 
Old 09-03-2009, 09:55 AM   #14
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Sounds like the scumbags in redmond are up to their old tricks, again.
If they can't win on merit, they try to discredit the competition through 3rd and 4th party PR campaigns. If you follow the money trail it always leads back to the usual source. This was brought out in a court case about 12 or so years ago and published in the LA Times.
More recently, a well known computer columnist point blank said m$ was responsible for the swear campaign against OS/2.
What goes around comes around, but it is taking much too long for m$ to get what's coming to them.
 
Old 09-03-2009, 10:01 AM   #15
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God, what trash...the sad thing is I really believe there will be people who read and actually believe it.
 
  


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