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   you from me says:

   Jun 23, 20:00

   Never heard about it, so no comment from me apart from the one i made, i think i will stop there ? did i make a comment ?
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   tonyuk from uk says:

   Jun 23, 10:50

   the message below is being sent through www.writetothem.com to my MP I hope you all can take the time to do the same rather than just writing on here :
   " Please would you kindly ask yourself and all the other democratically elected representatives to firstly take a pay cut - something in the region of £20.000 and secondly make sure that all your allowances are in future openly accounted and thirdly that any future rise is linked directly to the pay increases consummate with the other public sector workers.
   You can agree that extraordinary times require extraordinary measures can't you. "
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   Tecka from West Midlands says:

   Jun 23, 08:41

   People like Paul from birmingham make me laugh, - it must have been crap cause i've never heard of it! As far as browsers go I pretty much use whatever I come too and they are all pretty much the same.
   Microsoft won the software wars by giving away msDOS to the origonal PC manufacturers(i.e. amstrad and kin) then once everyone but apple were using msDOS it was a simple conversion once they had the graphics interface working (msWindows) then they allowed anybody to write code for windows then simply ripped of these programs, reconfigured and gave the products away for free! That why netscape, who had the origonal and best browser lost out, because even though IE had a lot of catching up to do it was free on virtually all systems.
   Microsoft have been very savvy until recently, the core of microsofts business has always been windows and the office package, these are now in decline mainly due to the office style packages available online which in my opinion are much better in terms of what can be done and how the information can be used, i.e. no need to email everone a copy of the latest spreadsheet because its stored in the ''cloud'' anyone can access it!
   Microsoft won't dissapear but will start to find that companies like Google are going to use there own stratergies on them, Google are basically giving away there version of office! I've got a feeling microsofts views on fair competition might change.
   The thing i've always admired about Bill Gates is that he started the company with msDOS, a product that he did not even write! He bought it for a pittance!
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   Marty from Belfast says:

   Jun 22, 15:36

   I also believe Netscape were arrogant bastards with an incredible resistance to producing a browser which actually conformed to any developing standard for web pages.
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   Marty from Belfast says:

   Jun 22, 15:32

   I think Microsoft were guilty of unfair competition if they pressured hardware suppliers by threatening to deny them use of Microsoft's (monopoly) operating system(s) if they installed Netscape on their machines, but supplying Internet Explorer for nothing to undermine Netscape is arguably just playing hardball, not unfair competition.

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