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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 318858" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>I agree with your statement above completely. When I refer to "underhanded tactics", I am referring to Microsoft's tendency to buy out competitors to shelve their technology, blatantly stealing technologies (via reverse engineering or simply copying them) or marginalizing competitors by including things like browsers with the OS thereby negating the need to use a competing product. The latter is not such a bad thing when the technology is clearly better than the competitor - but as was evidenced by the stagnation of IE6, once they conquered the market, they stopped developing it until a new competitor started to threaten their market share. </p><p></p><p>Again, and I think this is the third time I've said this in this thread, I am NOT a Microsoft hater. I hold an MCSE, administer an MS network and in general feel that they've done more good than harm. It's Vista that really gets my goat for those reasons I've mentioned previously.</p><p></p><p>And to be honest, in light of some of the more recent articles I've read on Vista, I'm starting to change my tune just a bit. I still have no desire to "upgrade" from XP, but it doesn't look all that bad for the price since you can now use an upgrade edition to do a clean install.</p><p></p><p>But I think we're beating a dead horse here. My point in starting this thread was to advise this forum about the inability to use an upgrade version to do a clean install - and that point is now moot, regardless of my opinion on MS.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 318858, member: 24098"] I agree with your statement above completely. When I refer to "underhanded tactics", I am referring to Microsoft's tendency to buy out competitors to shelve their technology, blatantly stealing technologies (via reverse engineering or simply copying them) or marginalizing competitors by including things like browsers with the OS thereby negating the need to use a competing product. The latter is not such a bad thing when the technology is clearly better than the competitor - but as was evidenced by the stagnation of IE6, once they conquered the market, they stopped developing it until a new competitor started to threaten their market share. Again, and I think this is the third time I've said this in this thread, I am NOT a Microsoft hater. I hold an MCSE, administer an MS network and in general feel that they've done more good than harm. It's Vista that really gets my goat for those reasons I've mentioned previously. And to be honest, in light of some of the more recent articles I've read on Vista, I'm starting to change my tune just a bit. I still have no desire to "upgrade" from XP, but it doesn't look all that bad for the price since you can now use an upgrade edition to do a clean install. But I think we're beating a dead horse here. My point in starting this thread was to advise this forum about the inability to use an upgrade version to do a clean install - and that point is now moot, regardless of my opinion on MS. [/QUOTE]
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