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Article #623171Re: Has Microsoft commited suicide ...
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:06
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:06
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On 6/22/2018 2:04 AM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 23:39:17 -0400 > Richard Thiebaud <thieba...@aol.com> wrote: > >> What features are unique to Windows? > > Don't go there! J Clarke's place of work has been backing themselves > into a selection of lock-in traps for decades AFAICT. Many of them involving > tight dependencies on Microsoft products. They *need* Windows and I doubt > they could get out from under (even if there was a desire) without breaking > the whole thing in the process. Mr. Clarke seems to think this is a good > thing, several of us disagree but it's not our problem and they seem happy. > Rather than say "get out from under Windows", I'd put it as "extricate themselves from Windows"... because here Windows *is* a trap!!! for this they would need Harry Houdini instead of J. Clarke! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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