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Re: Mushrooming Microsoft

September 25th, 2017, 8:09 am

Bill Gates "Sorry for CTRL-ALT-DEL"

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/20/technol ... index.html

That's gonna makes your week, some of you at least.

It is a non-issue for IBM mainframe programmers.
 
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Re: Mushrooming Microsoft

September 29th, 2017, 1:29 pm

Bill Gates "Sorry for CTRL-ALT-DEL"

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/20/technol ... index.html

That's gonna makes your week, some of you at least.

It is a non-issue for IBM mainframe programmers.
What a waste of life. That's his one regret? 
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Re: Mushrooming Microsoft

October 8th, 2017, 9:25 pm

Microsoft is well prepared for the future
Microsoft said its new quantum computing language, which has yet to be named, is "deeply integrated" into its Visual Basic development environment 
 
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Re: Mushrooming Microsoft

October 9th, 2017, 10:04 am

Public Sub ExcelAddIn

LoadLibrary ("ML.qll") ' load quantum link library

End Sub
 
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October 9th, 2017, 12:48 pm

100 OK. QLL Library loaded with probability 50%.

200 Press enter to goto blue screen of death with P=25%
 
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Re: Mushrooming Microsoft

October 9th, 2017, 12:48 pm

Dbl
 
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Re: Mushrooming Microsoft

October 9th, 2017, 1:50 pm

100 OK. QLL Library loaded with probability 50%.

200 Press enter to goto blue screen of death with P=25%
There's a 100% chance Microsoft Update will interrupt this, take 2 hours to download a buggy patch, and send the system into a cycle of reboots.
 
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October 9th, 2017, 2:29 pm

You guys remind one of the Red Sox whining about the Yankees. 
 
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Re: Mushrooming Microsoft

February 27th, 2018, 9:21 am

Eric Lundgren, ‘e-waste’ recycling innovator, faces prison for trying to extend life span of PCs
It's a poorly written confusing article but it seems to be about refurbished computers which had previously had the M$FT operating system and M$FT objected to him putting a clean copy of the operating system on such computers without paying again
 
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February 27th, 2018, 10:34 am

Eric Lundgren, ‘e-waste’ recycling innovator, faces prison for trying to extend life span of PCs
It's a poorly written confusing article but it seems to be about refurbished computers which had previously had the M$FT operating system and M$FT objected to him putting a clean copy of the operating system on such computers without paying again
Is a refurbished computer not the Ethernet address as the old one etc.? MS software might see it as a new computer. Sounds logical and standard in the industry.
In my day, you had to buy hardware dongles for each version of AutoCAD.. 


Prosecutors said the 33-year-old ripped off Microsoft by manufacturing 28,000 counterfeit discs with the company’s Windows operating system on them. He was convicted of conspiracy and copyright infringement, which brought a 15-month prison sentence and a $50,000 fine.

Give him 6 years.
 
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February 27th, 2018, 1:01 pm

Eric Lundgren, ‘e-waste’ recycling innovator, faces prison for trying to extend life span of PCs
It's a poorly written confusing article but it seems to be about refurbished computers which had previously had the M$FT operating system and M$FT objected to him putting a clean copy of the operating system on such computers without paying again
Is a refurbished computer not the Ethernet address as the old one etc.? MS software might see it as a new computer. Sounds logical and standard in the industry.
In my day, you had to buy hardware dongles for each version of AutoCAD.. 


Prosecutors said the 33-year-old ripped off Microsoft by manufacturing 28,000 counterfeit discs with the company’s Windows operating system on them. He was convicted of conspiracy and copyright infringement, which brought a 15-month prison sentence and a $50,000 fine.

Give him 6 years.
I think what MSFT objected to was his not using MSFT's official methods for restoring a legitimate copy of Windows on a restored computer. It was simply more convenient for him to make counterfeit copies of Windows so that's what he did.

What's funny/sad is that if he'd talked to MSFT's PR department when he started this, he probably could have arranged a mutually-beneficial "green" initiative whereby everyone gets to give themselves a big pat on the back for reducing e-waste.
 
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February 27th, 2018, 2:59 pm

Eric Lundgren, ‘e-waste’ recycling innovator, faces prison for trying to extend life span of PCs
It's a poorly written confusing article but it seems to be about refurbished computers which had previously had the M$FT operating system and M$FT objected to him putting a clean copy of the operating system on such computers without paying again
Is a refurbished computer not the Ethernet address as the old one etc.? MS software might see it as a new computer. Sounds logical and standard in the industry.
In my day, you had to buy hardware dongles for each version of AutoCAD.. 


Prosecutors said the 33-year-old ripped off Microsoft by manufacturing 28,000 counterfeit discs with the company’s Windows operating system on them. He was convicted of conspiracy and copyright infringement, which brought a 15-month prison sentence and a $50,000 fine.

Give him 6 years.
I think what MSFT objected to was his not using MSFT's official  methods for restoring a legitimate copy of Windows on a restored computer.  It was simply more convenient for him to make counterfeit copies of Windows so that's what he did.

What's funny/sad is that if he'd talked to MSFT's PR department when he started this, he probably could have arranged a mutually-beneficial "green" initiative whereby everyone gets to give themselves a big pat on the back for reducing e-waste.
You've got to accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between

You've got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
Have faith or pandemonium
Liable to walk upon the scene

To illustrate his last remark
Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark
What did they do
Just when everything looked so dark