# Micromedia or macro$oft? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [June 10, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/micromedia-or-macro-oft/22921 "2003-06-10T17:58:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/micromedia-or-macro-oft/22921/21 "2003-06-11T18:47:41Z")
the day i stop using flash is the day microsoft buys macromedia. just imagine it: Microsoft Office Tools: Word, Excel, Flash XP, Outlook, etc…_shudders_ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/micromedia-or-macro-oft/22921/22 "2003-06-11T19:02:39Z")
Reality is a Conspiracy. =) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/micromedia-or-macro-oft/22921/23 "2003-06-11T19:47:56Z")
Ever since I’ve used a comp’, I’ve used Windoze. Got quite unnerved when '98 still would bug all the time and bluescreen on me at the worst possible time, used Win2K & loved it, now using XP for a while and never had any problem?! It ain’t free (X-cept if you steal it on the internet), but it is a huge r&d job, and it does improve over time, so… Why is not not Ok for M$ to controll the OS market, who cares if the sources are not available (what’s the recepee for Coca-Cola…?), IE has long since many more features than NS or Opera or others, and so on… I don’t care what the brand is, as long as it works, is the point I’m trying to make…but I love MM products, couldn’t stand to give up Dreamweaver (ah, that name already…) for Frontpage, so I’d rather MM stays MM, but $$$ rules the world… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/micromedia-or-macro-oft/22921/24 "2003-06-11T19:55:14Z")
I love ms and all, i dont have anything against it, but i just like that and MM to be sperate. I dont htink this will happen, _knock on wood_ but if it does, i am jumping off a building, not one that i would get killed, but one that is big enough to get my point threw. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/micromedia-or-macro-oft/22921/25 "2003-06-11T21:14:45Z")
power corrupts but absolute power corrupts absolutely … or some such … I certainly don’t love M$ but I think the only thing I hate about them is their totalitarian approach, once they _own_ a thing there is little choice but to deal with them. Quality is not an incentive when you’re the only game in town. I find it psychologically unnerving that they could buy their way into a position of total domination … they’re just not prone to allow the open source and free competition that could evolve without them in such a position. They operate far too much on the motivation of what’s good for their bottom line rather than what is good for da Pipples. \ [Previous page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/micromedia-or-macro-oft/22921.md?page=1)