Kenyans turning to Ubuntu

[GreyGeek]

Re: Kenyans turning to Ubuntu

they would adjust their practices accordingly.

You're operating under the assumption that the guy who runs the place is a rational, logical human being.

...who doesn't throw chairs at his employees or run around on stage sweating like a pig and hollering "developers, developers, developers", even though his trainer for "technical evangelists", James Plamondon, called them pawns. This and more was revealed in documents released in the Comes vs Microsoft trial, especially comes-3096.pdf In that document you'll read how Microsoft used the "Stacked Panel", "The Slog", and other unethical techniques to win market share.

[SteveRiley]

Re: Kenyans turning to Ubuntu

Not all of us felt that way. But the behavior is indeed embarrassing, and I tried to stay as far away from it as I could.

The court document you linked included the PPT version of Plamondon's paper. Reviewing it reminded me of the infamous PowerPoint version of the Gettysburg Address. Hilarious, and all too common.

[Detonate]

Re: Kenyans turning to Ubuntu

To make matters worse for Microsoft, the PC desktop, laptop and notebook and netbook market is shrinking, and Microsoft's offerings in the tablet and smartphone world are not getting traction. Microsoft is barely breaking even on its branding and marketing costs of WinP7 by extorting bogus license fees from Linux and Android vendors. IOW, Microsoft is on the cusp of becoming irrelevent in almost all domains except corporate America.

The positive side effect of this is that I am noticing that you are seeing fewer web sites that require you to be using Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer. Many popular web sites that previously required this have now become OS independent. The operators are bowing to the demands of their customers that they be able to access the sites from their mobile devices. Silverlight and ActiveX controls are disappearing from the WWW.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Kenyans turning to Ubuntu

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The court document you linked included the PPT version of Plamondon's paper. Reviewing it reminded me of the infamous PowerPoint version of the Gettysburg Address. Hilarious, and all too common.

That Gettysburg address reveal in stunning parody how mind numbing a PowerPoint presentation can be.

The PDF that I references has revealing info on Microsoft's behavior on pages 10, 13, 53-55.