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Google to employees: 'Mac or Linux, but no more Windows'
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Posted on 05/31/2010 7:32:31 PM PDT by Gomez

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To: Biggirl

Same with Windows.


41 posted on 06/01/2010 4:09:39 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Gomez

Well, since google is tight with the ‘rats and Al Gore is on the board of directors at Apple, I guess I’ll stick with Windows. Isn’t google maps the one that was spying on peoples’ wireless use with their photography van when they were putting together that “street view” feature?


42 posted on 06/01/2010 4:13:33 AM PDT by meyer (Big government is the enemy of freedom.)
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To: meyer

Microsoft is not a bastion of conservatism. See my tag line.


43 posted on 06/01/2010 4:24:58 AM PDT by comps4spice (Microsoft: Putting the MS in MSNBC)
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To: Gomez
This smells like a PR stunt. Most of the Google apps don't run on Linux or the Mac. Unix has been out longer than Windows -- if security were such an issue, how come its still being patched? Every OS has its flaws. Having computers behind a firewall hacked is a good sign of poor security management. As Mr. Peel says, the only really secure computer is the one still in its box.

Come on, Google, don't be evil.

44 posted on 06/01/2010 4:34:45 AM PDT by MrsEmmaPeel (a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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To: Gomez

But but but but Mac is less secure than Windows /s


45 posted on 06/01/2010 4:36:50 AM PDT by Tribune7 (It is immoral to claim the tea parties to be racist)
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To: SmokingJoe
I don't know what you're Smokin, joe. It must be a powerful hallucinogen, or just smack. Apple's market cap exceeded your adored Microcrap last week, and Apple actually pays handsome ROI.

You show up on every Apple thread to tout your support for Bill Gates smartness, yet say nothing new, and add nothing but disruption to the conversation.

Grow up, quit smoking that crap, and get out of your mom's basement...


46 posted on 06/01/2010 4:39:18 AM PDT by WVKayaker ( Ridicule is the best test of truth. - Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield)
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don't know what you're Smokin, joe. It must be a powerful hallucinogen, or just smack

Groan!
Yet another Applebot lunatic emerges from the swamps to spew ou even more garnbage. So what's new?
Whatever I may be smoking (and I don't even smoke), its not even on the same universe as the substances you've been addicted to since you became an adult(and I use the term "adult" loosely).
Get ya head out of the the trash can and get back to the real world for once in your life will ya, boy. Addiction to hard drugs is bad for ya.

47 posted on 06/01/2010 4:56:21 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Plus Hotmail e-mail system, which Windows owns, gets hacked much more often then any other e-mail.


48 posted on 06/01/2010 4:56:40 AM PDT by Biggirl (I Have A New Rainbow Bridge Baby, Negritia! =^..^=)
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To: WVKayaker
Apple's market cap exceeded your adored Microcrap last week, and Apple actually pays handsome ROI.

Yeah? Who makes more profits?
Microsoft has been paying some pretty hefty dividends for years.
As a matter of fact, just 6 years ago, all Microsoft shareholders, including me, collected a massive $3 per share in dividends for every share owned.

“IDG News Service - With many of its potentially costly legal challenges now behind it or close to resolution, Microsoft Corp. announced yesterday that it will pay out about $45 billion in dividends to its shareholders over the next four years, including a special, one-time dividend of $3 per share.

The company's board of directors has also approved a plan to buy back up to $30 billion of Microsoft stock between now and 2008, company officials said. In addition, a quarterly dividend of 8 cents per share was approved. Total disbursals, through dividends and the buyback, will total about $75 billion over four years. “
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/94652/Update_Microsoft_tapping_cash_hoard_for_dividends_stock_buyback?taxonomyId=070

That is $75 billion CASH returned to shareholders right there. Let me know when Apple pays out $75 billion to their shareholders will ya?

49 posted on 06/01/2010 5:03:44 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: comps4spice

Good point!

Throw in the new cryptic interface of Office 2007 and it looks like I’m a man without a choice.


50 posted on 06/01/2010 5:05:06 AM PDT by meyer (Big government is the enemy of freedom.)
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To: WVKayaker
Appplebot zombie alert!



51 posted on 06/01/2010 5:06:21 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

How’d you get that picture of me??


52 posted on 06/01/2010 5:07:26 AM PDT by riri
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To: SmokingJoe
Joe, my complaint towards you has nothing to do with that. I merely referenced one rebuttal to your droning. Are you that threatened by a computer company and those who buy it's products?

You ought to consider professional help, shock therapy, or just a simple lobotomy. You're showing signs of major problems with reality... and put down that bong!


53 posted on 06/01/2010 5:10:50 AM PDT by WVKayaker ( Ridicule is the best test of truth. - Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield)
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To: JSteff

>> “When I am done with wok at the end of the day, it is turned off !”

> So are you at work now, or home?

Home. Not on work computer. Work computer is a Windows Laptop and personal machines is either Linux or Mac OS X.


54 posted on 06/01/2010 5:12:56 AM PDT by CORedneck
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Joe, my complaint towards you has nothing to do with that

It was no complaint. It was an insult packed post. Naturally, I gave it right back to ya.
You want a fight, you are gonna get it, boy.

I merely referenced one rebuttal to your droning.”

My rebuttal was backed by valid links to support it. You neither challenged my rebuttal, nor even made any attempt to address the points raised. You set out to spew out garbage, and you got hammered right back.

Are you that threatened by a computer company and those who buy it's products?”

Read your post again, and tell me who is threatened by another company's products.

You ought to consider professional help, shock therapy, or just a simple lobotomy”

Naaaaah.
You are so far gone, that no amount of lobotomy(frontal or otherwise) can do ya any good.
They have a place for folks like you (the no hopers): its called the lunatic asylum. I'd strongly advise you to check youtsrelf into one of those places...for your own good of course.

Meanwhile, here is a very nice award for ya:



55 posted on 06/01/2010 5:23:17 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe
Nice try, joe. It really makes me concerned for your health. Read your own posts, dude...


56 posted on 06/01/2010 5:42:43 AM PDT by WVKayaker ( Ridicule is the best test of truth. - Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield)
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To: WVKayaker
WVKayaker's early life:



57 posted on 06/01/2010 5:53:34 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe
What part of your mind interpreted my screen name into a desert wanderer in texas? Idjits make more sense than you...

I was a land developer in WV, thanks. Now, I just wander in a lot of wonderful woods... mine (though one of them is next to a million acres of State, National Forest and Wilderness areas) in West Virginia. New Mexico. North Carolina. Arizona. and soon in Wyoming (maybe). Some of my places are sparsely wooded, and hot, though never lived in Texas! Last time I was in Tejas, I was our church's rep to the SBC in San Antonio in the 80's.

Get a life, joe. This one's not working for you.

Spot calls. It's time for us go wander today! He presents much more intellectual challenge than your meager attempts at caustic humor and attack. I'll take my iPhone with me! You can uWhine all you want...


58 posted on 06/01/2010 6:10:44 AM PDT by WVKayaker ( Ridicule is the best test of truth. - Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield)
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WVKayaker’s alter ego:



There is no hope for you, dude.

59 posted on 06/01/2010 6:34:51 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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What part of your mind interpreted my screen name into a desert wanderer in texas?

The same part that recognizes a foaming at the mouth Applebot lunatic when I see one.

Idjits make more sense than you... “

I have seen worms with higher IQ than you have.

I was a land developer in WV, thanks. Now, I just wander in a lot of wonderful woods”

On the internet, even a dog is a King.

Get a life, joe. “

Ummm.. you started this fight with your very first post on this thread, and I am gonna finish it. Next time, you may think twice about spewing out mindless garbage.

60 posted on 06/01/2010 6:37:45 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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