The evil empire is at it again!

[Ace195]

There has been a couple of times they didn't cover their butts IE. Them not including netscape on the windows softwar hence the big lawsuit about the microsoft monopoly eventually leading to the break of Microsoft into smaller compaines that all have one main HQ

[Jason1]

Microsoft is a piss-poor company if there ever was one. Its just a damn shame mac's dont play enough games. I hate Microsoft and everything to do with the company, including Windows, Word, Frontpage, AutoCAD, Xbox, and anything else the dare's display the microsoft logo.

Although that Xbox thing sounds fishy....how could Mircosoft prevent other people's software from running on it? I mean it makes no sense...then the developers will abandon them for sure.

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

Originally Posted by Jason1

Microsoft is a piss-poor company if there ever was one. Its just a damn shame mac's dont play enough games. I hate Microsoft and everything to do with the company, including Windows, Word, Frontpage, AutoCAD, Xbox, and anything else the dare's display the microsoft logo.

Although that Xbox thing sounds fishy....how could Mircosoft prevent other people's software from running on it? I mean it makes no sense...then the developers will abandon them for sure.

they don't prevent other ppl's software from running on it, they simply make sure that the operating system isn't tampered with

[Jonbo298]

Originally Posted by Jason1

Although that Xbox thing sounds fishy....how could Mircosoft prevent other people's software from running on it? I mean it makes no sense...then the developers will abandon them for sure.

It's not too hard to make some code that can check the Xbox to see if the Bios/OS has been tampered with. If the code/update that is automatically downloaded sees that its been tampered with and Linux is installed, it disables the Xbox. (Don't quote me on the disables part, but I think it does)