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RESISTANCE
IS NOT FUTILE
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If Bill Gates and all of the "geniuses" at Microsoft
plan a well rehearsed demo of Windows98 and it crashes, how do you think it will work for you?
Microsoft Innovates
"... I cannot call Microsoft an innovative company. Can you name a single category of product it created? DOS was originally QDOS, Xerox invented the idea of Windows, which Apple perfected, and you can go right on down the line. Microsoft buys or copies (poorly) technology from smaller companies. The smaller company is always killed after the deal. Microsoft's only innovation is in contracts that lock people into its products or let Microsoft use its technology. Bill Gates is from a family of high-powered corporate lawyers, not engineers."
-JOE CELKO, Columnist, DBMS, September 1998
"Microsoft says Windows 98 fixes almost 3,000 bugs, but that begs the question of why those bugs were there in the first place."
-MICHAEL MILLER, PC Magazine
Now Micro$oft is attempting to control our
media, commerce and communications of the future.
Bill Gates will insist that Micro$oft is only a software
company, with no interest in media or other markets but several years ago
he said the same about Internet, when now claims integration of the Internet
(and Internet Explorer) with Windows as a "natural step in software innovation"
trying to run out of business Netscape.
How can we believe them when
they say that they don't intend to expand further?
We can't. Micro$oft
is investing everywere.
And when Bill Gates says that the PC clone manufacturers
are free to provide content of their own choosing, we can ask if that statement
is reconciled against the facts:
Thanks to the now-public internal documents, we know
that Micro$oft denyed Compaq the simple request of deleting the Internet
Explorer icon from the desktop. In february '98 Micro$oft said that will
require OEMs to license and distribuite Internet Explorer 4 as a condition
of licensing Windows 95. Micro$oft is using its market power to force OEMs
to licence both products, rather than allowing them to choose between Internet
Explorer 4 and other browsers.
This has nothing to do with "developing integrated
products".
Micro$oft stated that removing InternetExplorer would render Windows98 inoperable.
Read why Microsoft's story Won't Hold Up.
Use this link to get a patch to install Win98 without InternetExplorer,
or to remove InternetExplorer from an allready installed Win98 system.
Internal Memo from Microsoft's Christian Wildfeuer,
February 24, 1997 (submitted to court by US DoJ on May 18, 1998) "It
seems clear that it will be very hard to increase browser market share
on the merits of IE 4 alone. It will be more important to leverage the
OS asset to make people use IE instead of Navigator."
That's why Micro$oft "integrated" IE4 in Windows98.
"We are going to cut off [Netscape's] air supply. Everything they're selling, we're going to give away for free."
-BILL GATES, June 1996
"I am convinced we have to use Windows -- this is one thing they don't have. ... We have to be competitive with features, but
we need something more -- Windows integration. ... Memphis [Windows 98] must be a simple upgrade, but most importantly it
must be a killer on OEM shipments so that Netscape never gets a chance on these systems."
-JIM ALLCHIN, Senior VP, Microsoft, in an internal memo, "Concerns For Our Future"
Anyway, everyone knows that Microsoft is fighting like hell to screw
Java and keep it from being a threat to their marketplace, because offers
the cross-platform portability, freeing us from compatibility concerns
that keep Micro$oft alive.
A document that confirm this point: "Screw Sun, cross-platform will never work. Let’s move on and steal the Java language. That said, have we ever taken a look at how long it would take Microsoft to build a cross-platform Java that did work? Naturally, we would never do it, but it would give us some idea of how much time we have to work with in killing Sun’s Java."
Exhibit 97 (MS7 026935), P. Sridharan 9/17/97 e-mail.
"... We finally finished installing the new servers. For performance reasons, we decided to drop Microsoft Windows NT and
return to Unix again. We did this while we were still on the temporary server and even that machine which was a Pentium-90
with only 32mb RAM out-performed the NT Server that was a Pentium-200MMX with 96mb RAM. Needless to say, if we
were not sure about the move before then, we were afterwards."
-GAME SITES NETWORK WEB SITE NEWS, November 22 1997
What You Can Do
The first thing you can do is to
use a browser that is NOT Internet Explorer,
use Netscape Communicator or Opera browser (or something else) instead.
As a second step don’t buy or use Micro$oft products, and make a point of seeking out and using competitors’ products.
Windows is hard to substitute most times, because of the wide base of applications that exist for windows platform. But if you can't or don't want to eliminate Windows from your system, does not mean you can't have two or more OSes in your system.
In that way you encourage software companies and programmers to make their applications for other OSes too.
The PC Operating System Alternatives
There are many alternatives better than Windows 9x-NT.
The more important are:
- Linux (the OS that M$ is most afraid of)
- OS/2 Warp 4
- BeOS
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The author of this page has never worked for Microsoft, Netscape, Sun Microsystems or any other software company.
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