How Microsoft lost the office file format battle

[Pat]

Lol! you start the whole and then want to stop it when things get out of your control!

Anywayz, let the offtopic posts be deleted.

I dint want to post offtopic but why is it so difficult for you to understand that these discussions are not needed now that Cyrus has asked not to comment on it..Or is it that he has hurt your ego by terming you a "rookie hacker"

Whatever the case be, I would like everyone to know that Cyrus is a very helpful guy and if needed, I would continue dealing with him for years to come! He has some excellent plans, provides prompt service and support and thats all that matters to me!

Really like the flamewars not adding inches thing! ROTFL

Now I do not want to kick the flame war again. so I would not be posting any counter replies.



Now put in perpective, the engineer's who slog their a$$e$ at Microsoft before you criticize their work. Going by the same logic, you must also be open to same treatment coz you took money from ppl for hosting. If their product is not perfect, nor is your service! It is also prone to problems

MS does not get criticized because they charge for their OS..Get over it

 

[victor_rambo]

I dint want to post offtopic but why is it so difficult for you to understand that these discussions are not needed now that Cyrus has asked not to comment on it..Or is it that he has hurt your ego by terming you a "rookie hacker"

Whatever the case be, I would like everyone to know that Cyrus is a very helpful guy and if needed, I would continue dealing with him for years to come! He has some excellent plans, provides prompt service and support and thats all that matters to me!

lol.....I did not even read that he called me a 'rookie hacker'. Any wayz, thasnk for the compliment :S

And btw just because he requested to not to comment, I didn't feel that was really ok on his side! Can he speak rudely and then say 'please don't comment'....lol.........he should have better posted that 'i don't have an answer to your question!'

 

[FilledVoid]

I dint want to post offtopic but why is it so difficult for you to understand that these discussions are not needed now that Cyrus has asked not to comment on it..Or is it that he has hurt your ego by terming you a "rookie hacker"

No offense meant and your role in this would be exactly what again? Let them finish their problems off the board or if you feel inconvenienced greatly theres a report button on the left bottom corner of the post. I'm pretty sure you knew that much better than me.

Whatever the case be, I would like everyone to know that Cyrus is a very helpful guy and if needed, I would continue dealing with him for years to come! He has some excellent plans, provides prompt service and support and thats all that matters to me!

I doubt anyone needs a disclaimer from you to prove hes a helpful person. Hes already explained his actions , iMav has already posted long time ago . So seriously why should you go on justifying anything?

MS does not get criticized because they charge for their OS..Get over it

Would they have been criticized if they had released it for free?

 

[Pat]

No offense meant and your role in this would be exactly what again? Let them finish their problems off the board or if you feel inconvenienced greatly theres a report button on the left bottom corner of the post. I'm pretty sure you knew that much better than me.

And what have you done ? You could have done the same buddy

I doubt anyone needs a disclaimer from you to prove hes a helpful person. Hes already explained his actions , iMav has already posted long time ago . So seriously why should you go on justifying anything?

I am not justifying anything or anyone! I just dont want a nice person to lose business just bcoz of a few jerks and I dont understand why the hell are you bothered about it You can keep your advices and suggestions to yourself! Thanks

Would they have been criticized if they had released it for free?

Would Linux have been criticized if it was not free ? I know it sounds stupid but thats how your question is..There are probably around 97387 reasons and more serious ones why MS is criticized!

lol.....I did not even read that he called me a 'rookie hacker'. Any wayz, thasnk for the compliment :S

Ya welcome buddy if that makes you happy I am happy just knowing that you wont be using the same hosting service as mine

 

[iMav]

I am not justifying anything or anyone! I just dont want a nice person to lose business just bcoz of a few jerks and I dont understand why the hell are you bothered about it You can keep your comments and suggestions to yourself! Thanks

Be careful of whom you call jerks

I have been avoiding posting here but I guess it is time a few more thing were cleared, I made a simple post on my blog about the issue, where I had not implicated any1, I had not named any1, the title of the post dealt with FOSS hypocrisy, the post was tailored to make sure that no 1 was named and the post was restricted to the title, but cyrus threatened me to remove the blog post too.

Members of this forum had also read & posted on the blog entry and have said to me in private that there was nothing wrong with the blog post, I still have the post, I shall post it if need be for any1's scrutiny.

He first threatens me to pull down my site for using foul language which I deleted on my own and have personallyl & publicly apologized for. But then this guy wants me to post on my blog what he feels should be posted and not be posted. Again let me assure you that the post did not name any1 or any company. Cyrus himself had replied to that post and told me to remove it but I asked him to tell me what offends him and I willedit it the repply was point blank, remove the post or lose hosting.

149/- for freedom of speech is a small price considering that I smell foul play as my site is not opening on any of my 4 Operating systems and on any of the 3 most commonly used browsers, it is opening for others, which I guess he has blocked my IP or something.

 

[FilledVoid]

And what have you done ? You could have done the same buddy

I dont recall saying anything about the above mentioned topic.

Would Linux have been criticized if it was not free ? I know it sounds stupid but thats how your question is..There are probably around 97387 reasons and more serious ones why MS is criticized!

Absolutely. If I paid for Linux and I found a bug Id be breathing fire for support or getting it fixed.

just dont want a nice person to lose business just bcoz of a few jerks and I dont understand why the hell are you bothered about it You can keep your advices and suggestions to yourself!

If I was to nitpick further I would say you were just advertising his service. But personally I have no desire to fight with some random kid on the block. Nonetheless I do find his plans quite competitive . As for my advice you are free to ignore it.

Edit: Removed question to iMav cause I didnt read his whole post carefully . My bad.

 

[iMav]

It's opening for every1 other than me on any of the 4 Operating systems on my machine and have used all the browsers, not to mention every thing else is working perfect

 

[Pat]

Absolutely. If I paid for Linux and I found a bug Id be breathing fire for support or getting it fixed.

That is not the point..The point is that Linux gets criticized even though it is free!
(which according to you should not happen)

If I was to nitpick further I would say you were just advertising his service. But personally I have no desire to fight with some random kid on the block. Nonetheless I do find his plans quite competitive . As for my advice you are free to ignore it.

Whats wrong with advertising some service/product that you like ? Dont you do that for your favourite product ? Dont you like to let others know that a certain thing or product is good ? IMO its pretty human to do that!

As far as fighting is concerned, I am not interested either! And thanks for calling me a kid, uncle

Be careful of whom you call jerks

I have been avoiding posting here but I guess it is time a few more thing were cleared, I made a simple post on my blog about the issue, where I had not implicated any1, I had not named any1, the title of the post dealt with FOSS hypocrisy, the post was tailored to make sure that no 1 was named and the post was restricted to the title, but cyrus threatened me to remove the blog post too.

Members of this forum had also read & posted on the blog entry and have said to me in private that there was nothing wrong with the blog post, I still have the post, I shall post it if need be for any1's scrutiny.

He first threatens me to pull down my site for using foul language which I deleted on my own and have personallyl & publicly apologized for. But then this guy wants me to post on my blog what he feels should be posted and not be posted. Again let me assure you that the post did not name any1 or any company. Cyrus himself had replied to that post and told me to remove it but I asked him to tell me what offends him and I willedit it the repply was point blank, remove the post or lose hosting.

149/- for freedom of speech is a small price considering that I smell foul play as my site is not opening on any of my 4 Operating systems and on any of the 3 most commonly used browsers, it is opening for others, which I guess he has blocked my IP or something.

I dont know what happened in this regard and I have nothing against you or Cyrus or anyone..My experience with him has been different and thats the reason why I recommend his service

 

[Cyrus_the_virus]

149/- for freedom of speech is a small price considering that I smell foul play as my site is not opening on any of my 4 Operating systems and on any of the 3 most commonly used browsers, it is opening for others, which I guess he has blocked my IP or something.

Dude, I seriously don't know what your problem is. I have not touched your account for any reason. So stop accusing me of things I would never imagine of doing. There might be a problem with your ISP's DNS that it's not resolving. BSNL has been having problems with their DNS for the last few days if that's what you're using.

Please check it at your end, if not, come on chat support and I'll see what the problem is. This thread is not the support line for hosting.

 

[FilledVoid]

That is not the point..The point is that Linux gets criticized even though it is free!
(which according to you should not happen)

According to me this forum should stop going apeshit over Linux / Windows post. But lets face it , its not going to happen. Every single product is going to get criticized, My point was exactly that. Even if Microsoft would have gift wrapped it and send you an XBOX360 (dream on) with it, people would have still criticized it.

Whats wrong with advertising some service/product that you like ? Dont you do that for your favourite product ? Dont you like to let others know that a certain thing or product is good ? IMO its pretty human to do that!

As per the sticky above

"* No Scamming/Spamming/Advertising.
This forum is not a marketing/money making tool! No Pyramid schemes, chain letters, spam, or advertising of Web sites/products will be entertained here. This applies to forum posts and the inboxes of our members.

Im not in any way implying that you are making money off of this . As I said "if I were nitpicking" I would probably say this.

And thanks for calling me a kid, uncle

You are absolutely welcome kiddo .

 

[kalpik]

Thread locked cause its gone offtopic.