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Super Lloyd wrote: I wanted to bundle my own trial version of Solitaire+
LOL. 5. I think perhaps "Super Minefield" or "Minefield+" is more appropriate to this discussion...
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I have recently upgraded to Vista Business, and it has not got Solitaire, Freecell or Hearts, so I think the market is wide open for Google to take move into these areas.
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You're joking! Fancy graphics in Solitaire was a major reason many people upgraded.
Oh, and I barely use Google at the worst of times - I use www.Clusty.com and it has never failed me. The day it does, I'll use Yahoo. Just an obsession I have with not using Google.
TBH, I'd rather write my own...
-- modified at 13:55 Wednesday 27th June, 2007
Yet another spam post on yet another forum!
I am the lazy one, who sleeps as it suits him, codes what he wishes, and has many years to look forward to.
I love being a student.
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The Vista business edition has solitair, however, it is not installed by default...
Make it simple, as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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We should note, of course, that prior to Desktop Search software no-one objected to MS's Windows Explorer search being built in. It's only when MS produces something that's of comparable quality to the competition that they start to complain.
Kevin
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Where does it stop?? Let someone replace search.. let someone replace the file system... damn, why not stop there.. surely it's anti competative not letting other people replace the windows kernal.. I'd love to run the linux kernal on my xp machine.. Damn you microsoft... 
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Why not let ppl do what they want with there own operating system? They did buy it didnt they?
Apparently it's not OK to start a bonfire of Microsoft products in the aisles of CompUSA even though the Linuxrulz web site says so
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Microsoft can do what they like with their own product. No-one should have the right to tell them otherwise.
If Google don't like it they can build their own OS.
If users don't like it they can use Linux, Macs, or... Google OS... or learn to configure Windows...
Fred
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Fred_Smith wrote: Microsoft can do what they like with their own product. No-one should have the right to tell them otherwise.
No, because there are laws against Microsoft making everything MS only and not allowing it to be replaced by something different. They've gotten in trouble before by making Internet Explorer the only browser you can use in Windows, and by threatening Dell when they originally wanted to sell Linux with their computers.
Fred_Smith wrote: If Google don't like it they can build their own OS.
Last time I heard they were on 0.2b.
Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.
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MatrixCoder wrote: making Internet Explorer the only browser you can use in Windows
That actually never happened. It's always been possible to use a different browser.
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker
My Blog - My Photos - ScrewTurn Wiki
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It was when they integrated IE into Windows Explorer (I think it was IE 4) and made it impossible to remove.
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MatrixCoder wrote: Last time I heard they were on 0.2b.
Interesting. Any link you can share on the same?
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Sorry, I'm not sure where I got 0.2b. But here's the news link: Google Goes Desktop Linux
Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.
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MatrixCoder wrote: They've gotten in trouble before by making Internet Explorer the only browser you can use in Windows
As mentioned, that never happened. They made it the default (as in it shipped with it), but there has never been anything preventing you from running your own instead.
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Fred_Smith wrote: Microsoft can do what they like with their own product.
Damn straight!
Of course, the products they sell to us are another matter... 
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Yes, but can you blame them for doing so if that's the only legal way they can hire programmers they want at the rate they can afford?-- Nish on sketchy hiring practices
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Shog9 wrote: Damn straight!
Of course, the products they sell to us are another matter...
That and I feel too many choices only wreck havoc with the OS itself. Different search implementations, expotential customer problems...
Also, no one complained for Apple building in its own search into OS X, so why is google targeting Microsoft? 
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Recently read microsoft research paper found at http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?type=Technical%20Report&id=1095[^]
In it they state among other things that 85% of diagnosed 'blue screens of death' are due to faulty hardware drivers. Drivers over write parts of the OS kernel, Microsoft can't test properly or even run decent optimizations on their source because they don't know which dll will be loaded at run time and call which functions. Quite funny too, MS researchers even admit that Windows is slow compared to linux, Mac etc, for IPC, process creation, total supportable threads etc.
Anyways, the proposed solution: every process isolated and static. All code is then known at compile time, if you need to access a dll start it as a separate process and have it independantly managed. No shared memory either, so you don't have to worry about one program overwriting another. If you want to only have one copy of the data, you can change the process that owns the data with ~0 cost (roughly 1000 cycles regardless of the size of the memory)
As for the IE integrated bit, what about MS wanting to ensure that there was a browser on each deployment so things like Visual Studio can use html help pages. If you let the user uninstall the browser, they'd get really annoyed the first time the OS tells them they have to install a browser to continue. Sure they could have made it so that you'd have to swap one browser for another, but bottom line, they have rightly or wrongly there own extensions in IE, and they couldn't ensure that a 3rd party app would maintain compatiblity with the features needed by the OS.
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Right on. This reminds me of when Sun sued MS because the they were not shipping a JVM with Windows, while at the same time insisting that Microsoft not make Windows integrate with IE, so it would be easier to use Netscape! So let me get this straight: "I have to put your product in my product, but I can't make my product work well with my other product..."
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken.
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beep wrote: us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken.
 5.
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker
My Blog - My Photos - ScrewTurn Wiki
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You've been quoted 
I think I'm going to call my next project "Chuck Norris". It's a sure way to guarantee it's unbreakable.
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But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
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Geez, thanks Dave. I'll be expecting to see it as an entry in Bartlett's any day now...
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beep wrote: Right on. This reminds me of when Sun sued MS because the they were not shipping a JVM with Windows, while at the same time insisting that Microsoft not make Windows integrate with IE, so it would be easier to use Netscape! So let me get this straight: "I have to put your product in my product, but I can't make my product work well with my other product..."
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken.
minimice wrote: Also, no one complained for Apple building in its own search into OS X, so why is google targeting Microsoft?
Thats because Apple are not in a monopoly position, if google or apple ever become in the monopoly position then they to would be subject to the same rules.
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Stone Free wrote: Thats because Apple are not in a monopoly position, if google or apple ever become in the monopoly position then they to would be subject to the same rules
I suppose companies that create solitaire should start getting together and sueing microsoft too? It's their product and they can decide whatever they want to include in it. Whether or not users use it is entirely up to them.
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