Microsoft is really a caring monopoly.

rykh · Feb 11, 2003

"insert satirical message here" They are not the scrupulous company everyone once thought. Look this guy stole 9 million dollars worth of software, dies, and microsoft is saddened by the news.

"We are saddened by this news and our hearts are with his family and friends," Microsoft spokeswoman Stacy Drake said.

Take a look here.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto...ap/20030211/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_fraud_death

Diggrr · Feb 11, 2003

PR lies...all of it.

All they really want is your blood, your money, your first born, and a statistical database of everyone's computer hardware.
Sounds evil to me....

Pinky · Feb 11, 2003

Diggrr said:
All they really want is your blood, your money, your first born, and a statistical database of everyone's computer hardware.
Sounds evil to me....

Where's the evil in that? M$, gator, and Bonzi are my friend!

mbigna · Feb 11, 2003

Nah--the guy faked his death. Saw him driving his Hummer to where his yacht is docked around Seattle just a while ago.

Pinky · Feb 11, 2003

mbigna said:
Nah--the guy faked his death. Saw him driving his Hummer to where his yacht is docked around Seattle just a while ago.

Nah dood, that was Elvis... and I think he had John Lennon in the passenger's seat (in a small urn).

Twinkle · Feb 11, 2003

heh, Stacy Drake is a local Radio Dj, in this area...

Sterculus · Feb 11, 2003

hmmm, i think they are more saddened by the fact that $9mil was stolen than that the guy is dead.
lets invade microsoft campus

kagee108 · Feb 11, 2003

No doubt the conspiracy theorists will believe that Bill Gates somehow inserted a program "virus" into his body to shut down all systems.

Diggrr · Feb 12, 2003

kagee108 said:
No doubt the conspiracy theorists will believe that Bill Gates somehow inserted a program "virus" into his body to shut down all systems.

OH MY GOD!, He can do that now????
Couldn't resist.

Kingslayer · Feb 12, 2003

I love you people. You complain because Microsoft are nothing but heartless *******s. Then when they try to show some heart you complain about that too.

It's called professionalism. When something bad happens you say something nice to help people get along with their lives. Even if you don't mean it. It wouldn't have looked good if Microsoft came out and said "He ripped us off...good riddence!"

matt2364 · Feb 12, 2003

Did anyone ever see antitrust? i think he was killed by microsoft...Gates told him to deal with the problem and be creative...so they killed him!

Johnny Knoxville · Feb 12, 2003

yeah imagine if there was no microsoft, we would all be using (or trying to use) linux right now

kagee108 · Feb 12, 2003

Kingslayer said:
I love you people. You complain because Microsoft are nothing but heartless *******s. Then when they try to show some heart you complain about that too.

It's called professionalism. When something bad happens you say something nice to help people get along with their lives. Even if you don't mean it. It wouldn't have looked good if Microsoft came out and said "He ripped us off...good riddence!"

100% Agree!

kagee108 · Feb 12, 2003

Johnny Knoxville said:
yeah imagine if there was no microsoft, we would all be using (or trying to use) linux right now

You got that right! or "Lindows".

I don't know how many of you were around when XT and AT were the PC of the day. The home PC business almost came to a sudden death untill MS developed Windows. The general public could not get the hang of DOS or any of the other OS's at the time. To some degree the fact that you have a PC at all right now is due in part to MS.

<Ducking for cover, as I know the flak is about to fly>

Captain Slug · Feb 12, 2003

Microsoft has dontated more to charity than any other corporation in the past 25 years. It's also primarily their "fault" that PCs are in every home.

Everyone whines to much about the rich boy. He's a nice guy and has done plenty to earn his keep. He's never stolen an idea in his life, in fact he simply capitolized on ideas that large corporation were about to toss in the garbage.

Teacher_Doug · Feb 12, 2003

Regardless of how much M$ cares about the community (or not) my real gripe isn't that M$ products are bad, they're not...its just that they could be so much better.

And BTW kagee108, I loved the old DOS...I started on dos 3.0, upgraded (and regreted it ) to dos 4, dos 5( can you remember the ease of use of the DOSSHELL..wow...icons!!!), dos 6 and win 3.0 (ugh) win 3.1 (ok) and win 3.11(pretty good)...and you could understand EVERYTHING that the system was doing..you couild tweak the mem, reset the autoexec.bat, the config.sys..you had the whole system under your control....

::sigh:: those were the days.

Mind you you couldn't multi task, multimedia meant watching TV and listening to your internal speaker go DING, computer games had reached the sophistication of digger, 120 Mb hard disks were just being released (at £300 a pop), SVGA was still the best you could get on your 14" monitor, Word Perfect 5.1 was still leading the market with Lotus 123, and you had to pay extra to get the upgrade to WYSIWYG... :beer:

Maybe things weren't so great after all. Any other old timers want to comment?

kagee108 · Feb 12, 2003

Teacher_Doug said:
And BTW kagee108, I loved the old DOS...

LOL, I wondered how many "old timers" there were in here!

I know DOS had it's following. I too used the DOS SHELL.
My point was, the "masses" were not really able to grasp the idea of PC untill Windows came around. That made it easier for the average person to begin to use PC's. Prior to that many companies went broke attempting to sell DOS based machines.

Cheers to you!

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himura-dono · Feb 13, 2003

Johnny Knoxville said:
yeah imagine if there was no microsoft, we would all be using (or trying to use) linux right now

or *gasp* macs.....

itizme · Feb 14, 2003

Hmm, wonder if he went to heaven or hell for that one???

I do however think thats the official statement from MS was one of kindness showing the value of life is far greater than software. Memories for loved ones should be respected even if they miss the yacht!!

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