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Post 1 made on Wednesday April 27, 2005 at 10:26
Mr Griffiths
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Many of us here use Windows XP.
As XP became increasingly popular more and more weaknesses have been exposed.
XP Home has turned into a permanently sick kid you need to have anti virus anti spy ware tools and no doubt we will need more anti stuff to keep it well in the future. With XP you need third party decoding to play something as common as a DVD.

I loved XP but it is now looking past it’s sell by date. I know Longthorn is due but feel the anti Microsoft camp may make it just as bad by enforcing stupid regulations on what Microsoft can include.

A market has been seen by the guys at Apple with the Apple Mac mini .Put a DVD in that and it plays. It comes with Appleworks(word processor, spreadsheet, database, presentations and both vector and bitmap drawing) It comes with iLife(Consisting of iTunes, iPhoto ,iMovie iDVD and garageband) OK its sold as a product but how can Microsoft compete with that?

I want Microsoft to do the same sort of thing with the next X-box .Only then would it be a fair Market. The EU made a ruling about an integrated media player but didn’t moan when they through in a basic firewall and security did they? Ok I know the quality of the stuff on SP2 was basic but it must also have hit sales of third party products. Remember these holes are being exposed by people trying to cause trouble or faults. Yes car companies have improved car locks but at the end of the day it’s the car thief that is the Criminal.

I have been using Mozilla firefox because Java stopped working on IE how I cursed Bill!
Even with all these problems I know XP was a major jump in performance to what I had in the past.
Microsoft has made mistakes but I don’t think the computer market would be anywhere as big without the good products it has made.

If the ruling bodies make one company have all the advantages we are back to a monopoly
And that can’t be good for consumers can it?
Post 2 made on Thursday April 28, 2005 at 16:26
Warren
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XP Home has turned into a permanently sick kid
you need to have anti virus anti spy ware tools
and no doubt we will need more anti stuff to keep
it well in the future.

I've been Google searching for a program that will keep a watchful eye on what all my Anti-Spyware programs are up to, but is it right to spy on your anti-spyware? LOL

On the serious side you brought, for all the complaigning about Microsoft, That company pretty much singlehandedly brought the PC to the masses, which meant constant improvements, lowered prices due to volume and an exploding software market at reasonable (usually) prices.

Without Microsoft (or another company like it) PCs would still be for the elite few. I wouldn't call Microsoft a perfect company by any means, but I sure think they get a bum wrap on a lot of things just because they were successful.

And we all seek success.
Post 3 made on Thursday April 28, 2005 at 16:34
Anthony
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if by PC you mean something based on the IBM model and MS-dos, then yes because PC implies MS. On the other hand if you mean computers, there were affordable computers in peoples home before MS.
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