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by Anuj Ahooja on Jul. 20, 2011

It's not by Microsoft, it's a fan-made video.

by Larry Cafiero on Jul. 21, 2011

That's right, because if it were a Microsoft production, they would have spent $30 million to have Jerry Seinfeld perform in it.

No truce in sight -- yep, that sums it up.

by Arsa on Jul. 21, 2011

What kind of gift would aggressive and murderous Microsoft give to what he called "the Communist"? The way I see it, this cake must be poisonous...

A trust is something that should be earned and retained through your deeds, and I have no trust in Microsoft. One video cannot erase decades of hatred...

by 1roxtar on Jul. 21, 2011

Watch the video segment at 0:40 entitled "Even today, the two of them are still bickering." You will see Tux pulling a lever and Tux rising to Bill Gates eye level. In my opinion, Microsoft is admitting that Linux is growing on its own to a level equal to Microsoft. Priceless!!!

by Ken on Jul. 21, 2011

The candles on the birthday cake are meant to melt the igloo - typical Microsoft "trojan horse"! ;-)

by Fiona Weslan on Jul. 21, 2011

can say much besides wow....

by Rotorman on Jul. 25, 2011

Of course we can trust Microsoft!

Everyone in the world can trust Microsoft! Yay!

Based on 30+ years experience of Microsoft products and services I can surely and reliably trust Microsoft to:

Rip me off, lie, cheat, and bully, supply unfinished buggy code, lie about it, replace it with something slower and buggier, lie about it, update computers with crap, lie about it, even change their lies and lie about it, and so on. And on. They care only for their profits and pride.

If you ever doubted it, do a web search on: "Microsoft found guilty"

I started way back with MS EDTASM on a TRS-80, which kinda worked, but filled up most of my RAM leaving insufficient room for the code, so it would lock up and.... sound familiar?

Been helping friends and neighbours with their PCs for most of 30 years now, and the regular recurring problems just vanish once they switch away from MS.

One neighbour's kid saved up a small fortune for a shiny new copy of Vista (back in the day), installed it on the family PC (it was a Vista Ready! PC), turned it from a reliable workhorse into a sloth sleeping in clogged treacle - when it ran out of RAM it would lock up and.... There was no way back, since there was no longer a restore partition for XP.

My EDTASM fun and Vista clogging my mate's PC were over 25 years apart. This proves that over time, you can _really_ trust MS to do what it does so well!

It is indeed a cunning video - but false to fact in that Linux did not start throwing rocks - sure there were plenty of pissed-off ex-MS users, but it was Gates and Ballmer who started playing dirty with rivals from day zero.

And now they want trust?

Yes, there are some pleasant Microserfs working within their evil empire, but I notice that they don't seem to last long there.

Yes, people/corporations can change. I'll believe it when I see it - and the flying pigs, too.

by Joe on Aug. 24, 2011

Microsoft programs are great but their service isn't too reliable

by an anonymous user on Jan. 12, 2012

Here Here - Angry Penguin!

Don't let those illegal pirates anywhere near your open code!!!

I am VERY serious. They are trying to literally take over Linux and all other open source projects. Their managers and leaders every since Bill Gates got his first speeding ticket back in 1994 have admitted that open source projects give away all opportunities to make profits. (their profits no doubt)

Look at:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/26/microsoft_sues_tomtom/

TomTom GPS runs a special version of Linux, and it was sued almost out of existence for a lousy file system THAT M$ HAD STOLEN FROM Gary Kildall of Digital Research back in the late 1970's.

And they had STOLEN MS-DOS by cloning the original CP/M (Control Program/Monitor) operating system created for Intel 8080/85 based microcomputers by Digital Research. It was DR's product. CP/M aka DOS was sucessfully STOLEN by M$. And when in court M$ WON. And they always will win in court. Yes sir!

AND LINUX IS NEXT!!! GUARANTEED.

They claim to be embrace open source efforts, but look!

See your future Linux.

Look VERY carefully at the install disclaimers at the beginning of the first M$-Vista operating system and you will see that they used MOUNTAINS of open source code to create their new bloated operating system.

Windows Vista,Seven,Eight and only the devil knows what's next! All those operating systems have so much Linux code embedded within them, that they should not only pay royalties to the many open source authors who wrote the code, but the entire M$-Seven operating system should be released back as open source due to breach of the spirit of the Open Source Initiatives!

But. I guarantee that just the opposite will happen. Programmers make poor business people. Eventually Linux will be sued by M$. It is only a matter of time.

I warn ALL open source programmers here and now:

STOP USING MICROSOFT VISUAL C STUDIO - M$ Official license states that their tools are ONLY for use to make programs that run on M$ products, NOT Linux WINE! According to my information, Linux WINE is a violation of Microsoft software patents, and they will soon use that as a wedge to file lawsuits against the Linux community. I am not joking.

STOP MESSING AROUND WITH THE NET FRAMEWORK. I have carefully looked at some of the new "open source" projects from M$. They are literally a smokescreen to draw attention away legitimate open source efforts. Think about a world where all open source projects need the NET framework, and you will see a world where M$ has a legitimate claim to literally take away all of those projects by court order because they employ M$ patented technology. And once again:

M$ Official license states that their tools are ONLY for use to make programs that run on M$ products, NOT on Linux!

If you can't see what I am driving at, then maybe you could get a job working for the new corporate program development campus IN CHINA! (working for 50 cents an hour!)

Microsoft Corporation

1st Floor, Microsoft Tower, LSH Plaza

8 Wangjing Street, Chaoyang

Beijing 100102, People's Republic of China

Phone: work011-86-10-5917-0101

Fax: fax011-86-10-5925-8588

Please. Consider, add-to, and pass along this message to all open source programmers before it is too late.

M$ has all the money and time in the world to wait for their opportunity to strike. And they will.