Thread: What the hell??? M$ joins Eclipse!?!?!
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kureyon is offline kureyon
2016-03-10 , 23:38
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Originally Posted by ste-phan View Post
Finally?
With the acquisition of Hotmail and Skype plus Bing potentially linking search data and conversations of all kind they must have been able to get quite a good profile of those still using an unregistered Windows 7 for a long time ...
Yes finally. With Hotmail, Skype and Bing they have, to some extent, credible alternatives that people can move over to if they're not happy with MS' offerings. With Windows the vast majority of people have no alternatives and have to take whatever shafting MS gives them.

Originally Posted by wicket View Post
You raise a good point but they were still far behind Google
It's not through lack of trying. In terms of ethics both are about as bad as each other, but in execution of their agenda MS are woefully incompetent whereas Google is ruthlessly efficient.
 

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