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Downgrading from Win 8
On 30 Dec 2013, BillW50 wrote in
alt.windows7.general: Naw... just let the third party developers compete for the best newsreader for Windows. As anything that Microsoft could develop today as a newsreader just wouldn't be any good anyway. So why bother? There will be no competition. Nobody is developing new nntp readers, especially for Windows. The venue is fading away. Please do not indulge the troll's habit of crossposting messages to unrelated newsgroups. |
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Downgrading from Win 8
On 30/12/2013 1:30 PM, Nil wrote:
There will be no competition. Nobody is developing new nntp readers, especially for Windows. The venue is fading away. Please do not indulge the troll's habit of crossposting messages to unrelated newsgroups. Admittedly, Usenet in general is dying off. It's still an excellent way to download pirated material in relative secrecy (if your Usenet provider supports SSL) and at top speed but for discussions, it's dying and the ISPs are trying to guarantee that. My Internet provider does not include post-enabled Usenet access just to give you an idea and it's the largest ISP in the whole country. -- Silver Slimer Cheers to the dozens of satisfied GNU/Linux users! |
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Downgrading from Win 8
On 30/12/2013 2:48 PM, Paul wrote:
On 12/30/2013 2:38 PM, Silver Slimer wrote: On 30/12/2013 1:30 PM, Nil wrote: There will be no competition. Nobody is developing new nntp readers, especially for Windows. The venue is fading away. Please do not indulge the troll's habit of crossposting messages to unrelated newsgroups. Admittedly, Usenet in general is dying off. It's still an excellent way to download pirated material in relative secrecy (if your Usenet provider supports SSL) and at top speed but for discussions, it's dying and the ISPs are trying to guarantee that. My Internet provider does not include post-enabled Usenet access just to give you an idea and it's the largest ISP in the whole country. USENET servers are a "cost center" for the ISP. So they don't really want to offer any service, that costs money to police. A similar thing happened at work - we had a server with posting capability, within the company, but it cost "one IT guy" to run it. So it was shut down. Well, I believe that's what happened here. Sure Usenet isn't in high demand by customers because customers don't even know it exists. Any looking for a discussion will go to specialty web sites offering forums on a specific topic like BigSoccer for soccer-related chat or the Ubuntu forums for discussion of anything related to that operating system. However, Usenet is the quickest way of discussing with people and it is a shame that it's dying off the way it is. -- Silver Slimer Cheers to the dozens of satisfied GNU/Linux users! |
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Downgrading from Win 8
John Doe wrote, On 12/30/2013 4:10 AM:
Neglecting its customers in search of more monopoly power is something another antitrust trial would fix in a big hurry. Nothing with respect to deprecating 13 year old XP or returning those features (color, gradient, customizing fonts) remotely meets an antitrust concern. In fact the last antitrust agreement was a farce. - Supreme Ct. refused to hear the case after the plaintiffs attempted to send MSFT's appeal [to the original 'in violation of code of conduct' judge's 'findings'] to the Supreme Ct. - Supreme Ct. sent it back to the federal Appellate Court. Appellate Ct overturned the findings - Eventually the DOJ and MSFT primarily agreed on two issues and unanimously approved by the Appellate Court. a. API's would be made available to 3rd party developers for 5 yrs (that ended in 2006) b. no code changes, no unbundling of IE If you really think another antitrust trial is going to return the deprecated (and soon to be completely unsupported) XP operating system feature(s) three o/s later (Vista, W7, W8)and over 15 years later (the DOJ vs. MSFT began in 1998) then you might consider seeking and audience better suited (than this forum) for help with pipe dreams Fyi...cross posting removed -- ...winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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