Microsoft to launch YouTube rival

I am happy Youtube have a rival as there rules are to much, the amount of clips I see getting taken down even though they don’t cross the rules. :)

If it wasn’t for Bill Gates computer software would be in the Stone Age, at best we would be running something like windows 98 now imo, Bill Gates brought standardisation and made it easy for the average Joe, imagine if we just had open source! All the computers would be in hell of a mess.
 
-Colli$ion- said:
imagine if we just had open source! All the computers would be in hell of a mess.
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Thank goodness ~65% of web servers run Microsoft operating systems, eh? We'd be in a hell of a mess otherwise...

Edit: In case I was being a bit ambiguous, the above is the work of a little device called sarcasm. In actual fact 65% of web servers do not use Microsoft operating systems, and I'm thankful for it
 
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Who really gives that much of a monkeys? if you dont like it, dont use it. Are you on XP?

MS may copy ideas, but then again pretty much every company in the world copies other companies products. Look at TV, DVDs, CDs etc, there are millions of different brands producing those products.

I like to use MS because the format is similar and more often than not compatible with all other MS products.

As for thinking up their own stuff, what about .NET?
 
-Colli$ion- said:
If it wasn’t for Bill Gates computer software would be in the Stone Age, at best we would be running something like windows 98 now imo, Bill Gates brought standardisation and made it easy for the average Joe, imagine if we just had open source! All the computers would be in hell of a mess.
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Not at all, im sure there would have been innovation from other software developers if gates did not exist. If anything microsoft have stifled competition.
OSX or the like could have equally became the big player in the market.

I have been running linux for 10 years now. I am perfectly happy with the quality of the software, thanks.

Open source is a good thing, not a bad thing.

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As for thinking up their own stuff, what about .NET?
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Kinda scary how uncannily .NET resembles the Java platform (and frameworks). VM based code has been around long before M$ invented .NET.
 
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Pretty much spot on from what i've heard.

Youtube is currently in the "praying for a viable business model" stage of dot com companies, and unless they can come up with such a model they are likely to go the way of hundreds (thousands?) of other internet companies.

I wouldn't be suprised if this time next year youtube is either largely forgotten, or has been bought out by Timewarner/Fox/Sony etc as a marketting venture.
 
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Thank goodness ~65% of web servers run Microsoft operating systems, eh? We'd be in a hell of a mess otherwise...
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Linux is 100 times more difficult to set up, find drivers for ect ect ect than Microsoft, if something goes wrong with an MS product you have real support, something goes wrong with linux you post on an internet forum and pray for a reply lol ;) i have both Linux and various MS O/S running on my home network.

If linux is so good then why are big organisations paying for microsoft, Speaks for itself really.
 
Why the dig at microsoft? Other companies do this all the time?

Pepsi and coke, pepsi with lime and coke with lemon etc etc

SEGA, Playstation and Nintendo all borrow and copy ideas off each other

Clothing companies do it also

FFS, people just like to complain about everything.

If we didnt have people using other peoples ideas than one person would invent something and that would be it, that one version.

Threads in this forums are becoming more anal every day.
 
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If linux is so good then why are big organisations paying for microsoft, Speaks for itself really.
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Why are big companies paying Canonical/Red hat for support? Also speaks for its self.
You will be suprised the number of *nix/BSD box's that exist in business.
 
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-Colli$ion- said:
If linux is so good then why are big organisations paying for microsoft, Speaks for itself really.
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Mate, you wouldnt believe how many companies use Linux, I'd give you a good battering about that post, but cant really be bothered
 
Does it really matter?

The one thing I like about Microsoft is that the products they sell work well. They gave Windows Firewall out for free to nearly everyone running Windows XP, and I'm willing to bet a LOT of them wouldn't have had a firewall of any sort before then. They get a lot of stick about the security aspect of their products, but they actively do things about it.

I don't see any problem with them diversifying(sp?) their product line up, and I also enjoy the fact that they're now having to compete with firms like Apple to provide potentially better products than they would have done before. The only way is up from what I can see. Competition breeds better products.

Nearly any firm out there will copy another firm's product if it's a proven market leader, it's just the way the market works. Without it, I doubt there would be the amount of innovation we are seeing in many sectors.
 
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Mate, you wouldnt believe how many companies use Linux, I'd give you a good battering about that post, but cant really be bothered
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Do you have numbers of companies that us Linux and the number that use Windows? Or are you just making a comment in the hopes that people will think you know what your talking about? How many companies around the world have you provided support for?

In the end it doesnt matter how many use which product. Each company is going to have their own requirements and needs for IT. Some may need Linux and some may need Windows, it doesnt matter. The two operating systems, IMHO, are two very different ones. They are used and function differently, they present themselves differently and they have different pros and cons. Comparing Linux and Windows is like comparing bananna's and grapefruit. Yea, they are both in the food category of fruit but they dont look, taste or feel the same and you dont use them the same.
 
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Mate, you wouldnt believe how many companies use Linux, I'd give you a good battering about that post, but cant really be bothered
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Yea a lot of computers use linux, i allready know that. Linux's worldwide use is nothing compared to Microsofts. Linux just isnt pratical yet for most, its still largely under-developed and un-supported

I m know lots and lots of servers that run linux in large businesses (amazon servers iirc, what i m saying is linux will never over take Microsoft on the desktop O/S, Microsoft products are expensive, but you know your getting a first rate product from a repitable company that does what it says on the tin that the average joe can setup and use without reading x manuals.
 
Anything to have a go at Microsoft.

Surely it all gets a bit boring?

God forbid we have multiple top companies competing. That can only be bad...
 
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And yet no one flames the Ipod for copying ideas?
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The iPod was a huge advance in mp3 players in general (in my opinion) - but that's a fair point.

In terms of flaming companies for idea stealing - no one else quite rules that like Microsoft.

Unfortunately a lot of people are blind to the fact that stealing goes on all the time in this industry, in and around most of the top dog companies.
 
tbh I think the microsoft version would probably be better than youtube...
stop bashing MS they arent that bad :p
 
Oh get over yourself, nothing is origional these days. the fact that microsoft have the (our) money to throw at their projects is only a good thing, to get right what the idiots running youtube can't. If you don't like windows, don't use it. Frankly they've done better than apple. If you love the ipod, use it (actually the worst quality sounding mp3 player I've ever used - but thats a different point)

The reason Microsoft is doing so well is because there is a demand to INTEGRATE things exactly like they are doing. And its working. Stop complaining.
 
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