What's Microsoft Up To?

So, today's one of those days when every bit of news is dominated by Microsoft. To spare you six different stories about the Borg, we'll assimilate them all into this one. You have seen the stupid Passport hole in an earlier story; also the iLoo, although that hasn't stopped you from submitting stories about it, oh no. New news: a report paid for by Microsoft shows that Windows is a better server than Red Hat. A class-action suit has been filed charging that MSN and Best Buy combined to scam customers. The WINHEC conference is ongoing - Steve Ballmer says DRM is an opportunity, not a prison, the Xbox is going to be your home communications center, Wired talks about how hardware will be changed to imprison users, and once you're locked in to Microsoft you get to pay more each year. An article describes why user desktops are locked down. Oh, and here's another on DRM, just because.

Comments

Re:Complete the Microsoft Slam

[The Bungi]

280 billion market cap and 40 billion cash in hand. Should I go on? No? I thought so.

Re:Microsoft Prototype Crawler

[The Bungi]

Holy crap. You obviously have a piece of malware running on your system and you're blaming it on Microsoft?

Don't you think that makes you look a wee bit stupid?

You get what you pay for. Sort of.

[Anonymous Coward]

I have been having all sorts of problems using Linux as a server. For the first two years everything worked great. I was running 6 servers and not having to pay licensing to M$ for servers.

Well, in the last year I have been pulling my hair out. As new computers got added to the network with WinXP all hell started breaking loose. Long delays opening and closing office documents, false warnings about files being in use by other users, peachtree accounting databases getting corrupt and crashing.
I have not found any useful help, no answers to questions. All the paid services say you need to get the latest version of Samba, update the kernel, etc etc etc. After several samba upgrades and kernel updates, more new problems surfaced. No real solid answers.

Needless to say, I ended up having to pay the MS tax anyway. It was nice to get 2 years out of it, but the stress, downtime, and upset customers was not worth it.

I still use Linux around the house and I still love it, but I'm not going to use it as a server in a comercial invironment anytime soon.

Of Course!!

[t0ny]

And obviously MS's study must be wrong. Because NOTHING could possibly be faster than Linux...