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• Post #1062652

  Are you reading the hate on Windows? Microsoft is a multi-billion dollar international mega-corp, and their software is meant for enterprise use as a tool to get a job done–a means to an end. All of its other uses are distantly secondary to that. In that context, the tool becoming progressively less reliable, fast, and predictable makes it ever less fit for purpose. Sure, you used that time for something else productive, but when you need your computer for something important right now, it f...

• Post #833465

  Trident was such a cooler name than WebKit, too. A rare instance of Microsoft giving something a name that was neither confusing nor lame. I mean, those ActiveX controls were a little… well… Trident was a cool name!

• Post #833327

  There is never anything fundamentally bad about more choices, but that doesn’t mean that some of the choices are not fundamentally bad.

• Post #469723

  I believe that there isn’t because, at least as I understand it, it costs considerably more money than it makes to operate it. It gets less bad at scale like Google has achieved, but they still lose money on it, so it seems doubtful that anyone else could break in and beat them at that game. They continue to operate it because they get a variety of other things from it that don’t directly make the YouTube division money, but feed into their other divisions where they collectively generate cons...

• Post #467394

  Its not, though. The chain of events is well documented, with much of the original correspondence still there to read and evaluate for yourself. Its arguably not a conspiracy, either, since it was perpetrated by a single entity. Their motivations for doing it are the subject of a lot of speculation, some of it pretty wild, but the facts that they did do it and how it was done are public record.