Tom's Hardware: Topic Windows XP
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Well, according to <A HREF="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20805.html" target="_new">The Register</A>, Windows XP has started blocking 'non-XP compliant' programs from being used in XP. They have to be certified and bear the XP logo of certification. With this in mind...
<b>Is Microsoft evil?</b>
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I can't answer based on the fact that this is semi-true. There is no indication that M$ will do this for the end product. Heck, they even blocked AOL from being installed, and AOL and M$ have been happily trying to do some important internet apps together. I personally think M$ is blocking these apps on XP to finish beta testing everything they need to for the CORE OS. I think they were having too many problems testing every current app and they are reducing the number of supported apps until they fix the bugs on the major apps. XP is quite the ambitious (and actually needed) change for Windows. ME was a mistake and a joke (or a really well designed money maker off of stupid people -- think of not just the money from ME but the money to upgrade servers to be complient with ME network protocols -- a lot of universities and businesses had fun with that one 
). Microsoft is pretty evil, yes, but i'm still not seeing anything better stepping up as of yet. Time will tell though, right? And i do like a lot of M$'s software developement tools. I mean SourceSafe is pretty much an industry standard, and i'm still looking for something to beat Interdev for asp developement. Granted, we can flog MS for making VB in the first place and for going beyond Win98 consumer wise (i really do like the upgrade from NT to 2k though!). M$ has been and will always be a hate/love relationship
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