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Microsoft At Middle Age
gordyf writes "The Seattle Times has an interesting article concerning Microsoft's current position in the market. It describes how its customers and parners are reacting to its heavy-handed tactics, and how 'you can point to Linux being one of the major drivers for this decade.' An interesting read."
>Mac OS X is a single OS, as opposed to a set of OSes that may or may not work together.
Sure, a specific version of Mac OS is a single OS that works with it's own stuff.
How many Mac OS 7.5 apps run well on Max OS X. What about OS 8? OS 9?
What about the many different architectures of the Mac? How do binaries for the 68k Macs work on a G4?
>OS X is also a BSD, which is a much better OS than Linux.
Why? You need to substantiate this much better if you don't want the troll label.
>Also, OS X also has the backing of a long established company that will probably be around in the foreseeable future.
You do realise this company is Microsoft, right? That their money/support has been helping keep the Mac platform alive?
>Lastly, Apple is adopting a less proprietary model and much of the operating system is open source, so many of the benefits of a completely open source OS are there too.
Misinformed. Look how long it took for the iPod to work on non-Mac OSes. Look at the fact that Apple is still such a pathetically proprietary company that they have to take Pioneer DVD burners and change the name of the company in the firmware so that they can keep their propreitary grip on the market. Wouldn't want someone using a non-Apple DVD burner on a Mac, would Apple?
What Apple needs is Steve Ballmer running the company instead of Jobs. That would fix their wagon and it might convince me to get a Mac. 'Till then I'd rather buy a less proprietary machine, like an HP/UX minicomputer (joke).
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
The $50 billion should be funding AIDS, Cancer, and Mad Cow disease research.
Nonsense. Homos get AIDS, smokers get Cancer and Mad Cow disease is a Brit thing. So if you're not in any of the above groups you spend the $50 billion on a moon colony. Well.. a moon colony or a monorail around Springfield.
Trolling is a art,
In your opinion, which is very different from my opinion and the opinions of almost every critical review I have read about the XP UI.
Every new release messes around with file formats, so that everyone HAS to upgrade, since the software (Office, in this case) doesn't degrade gracefully when confronted w. documents written by newer versions.
End result = forced upgrades w/o any improvement in "the user experience"
On another side, here's a quote from the article:
Microsoft also wants to provide a consistent, predictable experience for people who use its software on various devices.
I'm sure that if they ever decide to release their own version of linux, it will BSOD just so that you can continue to have that "predictable experience" :-)
And how many times have slashdotters been stood up for dates for more than 20 minutes? Does that mean you'll give up women forever and advocate a switch to an alternative system?
Hardly a fair comparison, slashdotters only get dates by asking for an irc channel.
MS's alternative would be to release "Windows for stubborn people" and then those people would complain about X new feature that they didn't get. And of course X new feature is different for every geek.
THis I have to disagree with. I've not yet met one person, geek or otherwise, who liked all the stuff the original poster was complaining about. In fact, I use MSN myself (GAIM, it's called, around my house), and I still disable it in windows! (Then I turn around and re-enable it , oops) Granted, this is anecdotal evidence, but it certainly looks to me like all this fancy UI stuff that Microsoft claims is so wonderful to the idiot users is nothing but self-serving to the manufacturer of the OS.
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