http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/07/microsoft-store-again/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=microsoft-store-again The Applied Theorist's Point of View Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:13:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/07/microsoft-store-again/comment-page-1/#comment-184 jmount Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:00:02 +0000 http://www.win-vector.com/blog/?p=212#comment-184 A pictorial essay on the topic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/7/20/ A pictorial essay on the topic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/7/20/

]]> http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/07/microsoft-store-again/comment-page-1/#comment-178 Scott Locklin Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:26:22 +0000 http://www.win-vector.com/blog/?p=212#comment-178 Microsoft has spent their history not caring about the computers their OS gets installed on, so, highly unlikely to happen. I despise almost everything about Apple; the smugness of the user community, the stupid glowey apple logo, the idiocy of putting stuff in /Library and breaking all kinds of Unix conventions, the unreliable hardware, the wackjob MachOS version of ld() (countless hours of my productivity wasted ... for what? all it does is make the memory footprint <b>worse!</b>)... I could go on. I hate Apple. But, the hardware comes with software made for it, I can bring dead stuff to the store and have them fix it, and it's a Unix I don't need to invoke Lucifer to use. If there were a store which sold and supported Linux equipped computers, I'd buy those instead. Microsoft has spent their history not caring about the computers their OS gets installed on, so, highly unlikely to happen. I despise almost everything about Apple; the smugness of the user community, the stupid glowey apple logo, the idiocy of putting stuff in /Library and breaking all kinds of Unix conventions, the unreliable hardware, the wackjob MachOS version of ld() (countless hours of my productivity wasted … for what? all it does is make the memory footprint worse!)… I could go on. I hate Apple. But, the hardware comes with software made for it, I can bring dead stuff to the store and have them fix it, and it’s a Unix I don’t need to invoke Lucifer to use.
If there were a store which sold and supported Linux equipped computers, I’d buy those instead.

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