Microsoft Fined $731 Million by EU

[FlaFlaFlunkie]

Mean while Apple has a total monopoly on iOS apps... making it all but illegal to sell apps any other way and charging its vendors 30% of what ever the fuck they are selling

Apple is fucking greedy as MS ever was.. all of them cock suckers...

if it wasnt for the free porn i tell u

A consolation for you? Just wait until the world's hackers get off Microsoft's balls and set their eyes on Apple.

I can't wait. All those years of lying to everyone about how much more secure and safer their O/S is.

[TelegramSam]

So buy an Apple Laptop. Problem Solved!

Oh wait.


BTW...what you call a "Windows Tax" is the same REASON that you can buy a CHEAP PC/Laptop.

And a comparable Chromebook is cheaper, why? You make no sense. ASUS has gotten away from it, but they sold several laptops without Windows up until a year or two ago as well, and they were all cheaper than the Windows model. The Apple OS is a dummed down, shell of a true UNIX operating system and if you're into Apple you have to admit that. Any OS without a command line shouldn't call itself a UNIX derivative.

[TelegramSam]

What programs are they using for word processing and spreadsheets if they're not using office? Also, if they're not using those programs, is the file extension one that someone working anywhere else in the world can open it?

That's part of the reason no one busted Microsoft's balls when they destroyed Lotus 1-2-3 and Word Perfect.

In the late '90s/ early 00's, most users would've been stuck on stupid if they received a file type with which they were unfamiliar.

Having that monopoly made business run smoother. Now, it's no biggie, but if you don't have a program to open the file type, then you'll have to change it to an rtf file for word processing (and a possible loss of fidelity) or a csv for spreadsheets, but same thing: possible loss of the way your doc was intended to look/function.

My point is, it's an extra step and a pain-in-the-ass...if that's the case (where the alternative programs save files with a different extension). don't even get me started on how retarded typical users are.

Try running Libre Office. It can save in and open .doc, .docx, etc. and it uses its own .odt format as well. Aside from a word processor it also has a spreadsheet. AND, I liked Word Perfect, it was even available for Linux.

[Anyonenow]

And a comparable Chromebook is cheaper, why? You make no sense. ASUS has gotten away from it, but they sold several laptops without Windows up until a year or two ago as well, and they were all cheaper than the Windows model. The Apple OS is a dummed down, shell of a true UNIX operating system and if you're into Apple you have to admit that. Any OS without a command line shouldn't call itself a UNIX derivative.

You Answered your OWN question.
And CONFIRMED my Statement.
Thank you

[TelegramSam]

You Answered your OWN question.
And CONFIRMED my Statement.
Thank you

The reason they cited was that they weren't selling enough units as well as the fact that the industry needed to prop up Windows in order to combat Apple, how does that mean they were more expensive? They still sell those Linux laptops in Korea and China by the way, there was just a larger market for them there.