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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.
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I think we can all pretty much agree that Michael's a complete fucktard. What really baffles me is that he's still allowed free reign on this site. There seems to be no journalistic integrity when he posts a story. This one reeks of whining child. The phrase "although that hasn't stopped you from submitting stories about it, oh no" just warrants a kick or two to the nuts. How childish can this guy get? And this is a supposed "news" site? If anyone at Andover is listening, this guy is a complete tool, and I'm not surprised that he could very well be one of the reasons this site doesn't have very many subscribers. If you don't want your site to crash and burn like a car wreck, don't let an immature child behind the wheel.
This guy should have been fired long ago. Apparently that little fiasco he caused over at censorware.org (you still hijacking that domain?) wasn't enough to make anyone notice. This story in and of itself is enough to prove how much of a tool this guy is.
Or maybe he's just a little pissed that Microsoft is in the news so much. You know, Michael, the communists used to control their news media too. When you run a website like this you should publish impartial news stories and let the readers bitch about what's right and what's wrong. But hey, I guess you'd blow your top too if you kept hiding the news from the public for so long.
BTW, this is 1337th post. What a topic to post it under.
P.S. I think I have a good idea who modded you to -1 Flamebait.
You make it sound like Microsoft Zealotry and Linux-bashing didn't exist before Slashdot became popular (or at least well-known).
I didn't say that, nimrod. I'm not even talking about Microsoft zealots. I'm talking about the typical mentality around here, and doubly so for the amateur "editors" that run this site.
If anything, some of the extreme views taken by Linux zealots are a reaction to an already overly-pro-Microsoft environment fostered by management and Industry rags at one time (although the press is giving Linux more even coverage these days).
And that makes it okay?
Granted - it could very well be a self-feeding cycle that we're in now. But it shure didn't start that way.
So what? Mindless gnu/open source/linux zealotry and slashbotitis are still a problem if the gnu/open source/linux stuff is ever going to be taken seriously in "the industry". It's a plague and it must be contained.
A story about the latest Linux kernel or BSD or some other technical topic nowadays rarely makes it to the front page to begin with, and when it does it accumulates a couple of hundred comments, at most.
FUCK MICROSOFT!!!
280 billion market cap and 40 billion cash in hand. Should I go on? No? I thought so.
Don't you think that makes you look a wee bit stupid?
Yeah, um, that should have been "slammer", not slapper. Slammer == MS SQL Server, slapper == Linux Apache server.
Hey, at least I said the two OSes were roughly equivalent, right?
-B
Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
I know of guys who *refuse* to move from Red Hat 5.2. They build their own kernels, have added OpenSSH/SSL, keep Apache/MySQL/JVM/glibc/etc updated and tweaked, run samba, all sorts of stuff. I know of some 6.2 servers out there which will likely be around for a while, too. You'd be surprised how many "old" versions you'll find. I was still running on an older machine 6.2 until a couple months ago. I kept it all patched up and updated without having to write a single line of code.
You know what? That's another one of the reasons why Linux makes a very good OS: you get the freedom to update whatever you want, for as long as you want, if you want. Sure, most people don't get down into the actual code and author changes, but there's really nothing stopping you or I from grabbing 5.2 ISOs, installing and patching everything we need -- or writing our own pacthes. Now, you don't actually need to write your own kernel and software patches since you can update the OS and its software piecemeal, but you could if you wanted to. And at least you get the choice.
-B
Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
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.
And obviously MS's study must be wrong. Because NOTHING could possibly be faster than Linux...
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
What a fag