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   Going to sound petty, but...

   

   Oliver Wendell Jones, Aug 24th, 2005 @ 6:22am

   
   

   I can't help but wonder which statement best explains this situation:
   
   1) Bill Gates and Microsoft are truly concerned about the safety of their customers and go to great lengths to ensure this.
   
   2) Bill Gates and Microsoft feel that misleading people and ripping them off is their exclusive domain and they don't like competition, so they're using the courts to eliminate them.
   
   I'd like to believe it's #1, but the little devil on my shoulder is assuring me that it's really #2.

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   Re: Going to sound petty, but...

   

   Anonymous, Aug 24th, 2005 @ 7:09am

   
   

   Yes, that was petty.
   The correct answer is
   3) Microsoft found themselves having a negative reputation and are working to turn that negative to a positive.
   Honestly... If you had their reputation, and you thought it was hurting sales, woudln't you try to fix it?

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   Microsoft's reputation

   

   Joe Doe, Aug 24th, 2005 @ 9:24am

   
   

   [Microsoft] "are working to turn that negative to a positive"
   Mission Impossible, eh? ;)

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   Re: Going to sound petty, but...

   

   rob, Aug 24th, 2005 @ 10:08am

   
   

   Yeah, I'd try to fix it but you should know by now that that isn't how M$ operates. Think of the least logical thing you would do then mask it to look like something else and that, my friend, is exactly what M$ will do. Pretty much the same in politics, religion and other human institutions, eh?

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   Re: Going to sound petty, but...

   

   Granelda Thurmer, Aug 24th, 2005 @ 10:34am

   
   

   Calm down, if all of Microsoft's software worked as it was advertised, the ones that sell software to make Microsoft's work would be out of business and the Fed's would would really be down Microsoft's throat for having a real monopoly.

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   Re: Going to sound petty, but...

   

   cynicdave, Aug 24th, 2005 @ 10:59am

   
   

   Are you sure it's not just a corporation doing things which are easy as hell to do and what any legal department would probably do anyway regardless or if it was microsoft or not? I mean people tend to treat microsoft as if it was a single entity, and apple and ibm and intel and everything single corp throws out lawsuits like candy and nobody complains about that....

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   Phishing

   

   Website Development, Aug 24th, 2005 @ 11:03am

   
   

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   No Subject Given

   

   Anonymous Coward, Aug 24th, 2005 @ 11:07am

   
   

   How dare Microsoft be in business to make money. How dare Microsoft go after people who ruin the user's experience. How dare Microsoft.
   
   You guys need to get off the anti-Microsoft band wagon...

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   Re: No Subject Given

   

   me, Aug 24th, 2005 @ 2:21pm

   
   

   I agree with above. You guys all need to STFU. If you don't like microsoft don't use it. There are PLENTY of alternatives and if you don't know them, then don't be mad for being stupid. Stupid.

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    Re: No Subject Given

    

    Anonymous Coward, Aug 24th, 2005 @ 4:18pm

    
    

    You guys need to get off the anti-Microsoft band wagon...
    
    How about Microsoft shipping products that work as advertised?
    
    

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    Re: No Subject Given

    

    Anonymous Coward, Aug 25th, 2005 @ 11:14am

    
    

    I agree with above. You guys all need to STFU. If you don't like microsoft don't use it. There are PLENTY of alternatives and if you don't know them, then don't be mad for being stupid. Stupid.

    If you don't like the comments on Techdirt, don't read it. There are PLENTY of alternatives and if you don't know them, then don't be mad for being stupid. Stupid turf troll.
    

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