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Any Reason To Buy Microsoft?
zymano writes "This yahoo article says that almost everything enterprises once found unique to Microsoft they can now find somewhere else -- without some of the baggage that comes with Microsoft purchases, like ongoing security concerns and mystifying licensing practices and that in a recent survey of CIOs, Forrester Research found that about 25 percent of them were already in the process of replacing Windows servers with Linux."
to give us someone to look down on
What would Brian Boitano do?
Yes, buy their products to support them. Where else can you get such decent mice?
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One by one the penguins steal my sanity...
Bill: Our market share is falling, what can we do? Ballmer: [Sweating]Improve our products?[Still Sweating] Bill: Don't be ridiculous, if Windows was secure then we wouldn't be able to charge for bug fixes, [not that our software is buggy of course] Ballmer: [Shirt now navy blue]We could take the old standby[Shirt now very dark navy blue] Bill: Aha - [to voice activated Windows box]Bring in the lawyers![Windows BSODs] [To voice activated Linux box] Bring in the lawyers! [Lawyers arrive] Bill: I want Linux to be made illegal Ballmer: [Shirt now dissolving in acidic sweat] Developers! Developers! Developers! Bill: Not now Steve! Lawyers: This will cost you Bill, bribery is very expensive these days. Bill: Nah! - I ran an audit check on the US govt. they haven't complied with the MS Windows Server 2003 EULA clause 0203432448 (You hereby agree that All your base are belong to MS) Lawyers: It shall be done oh fabulously wealthy one! [US Govt. declares Finland a terrorist state, wages violent war, Linus Torvolds writes a quick kernel update then goes into hiding] ... to be continued.
If you buy Microsoft products, you get all that stuff connected, i.e. buying Microsoft hardware you are sure it will be supported flawlessly by Microsoft software.
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And now I wonder if I get modded down for this as Troll or up as Funny
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And secondly, if you did, you would have to get rid of monkeyboy somehow.
Oooh. Can we make him dance until his heart explodes? Please? Pretty please?
Clippit, the cute and loveable Office assistant. Let's see Linux' answer to that.
How about Clippy and Bob ? Unique to Microsoft ? Yes, of course. Replacements ? No way!
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If you had asked me this very same question some years ago, I could have outlined a series of reasons why you should buy Microsoft and sell Enron.
let me start with some agreements:
i agree with you on the filesystem, but i'm spoiled because of netware. the recoverability of original (3x, 4x, 5x) netware fs was good and nss is outstanding.
i also agree to some extent with the poor tools.
but here's the kicker: people talk about the expensive linux (or unix, or netware) engineers and compare that to the low-cost (cheap?) ms engineers and they haven't compared oranges to oranges. a lot of people are lining up to get burned because their ms technical people don't know what they are doing. and mcse's that do know what they are doing are rare and expensive. i've made more money that i want to think about cleaning up after one or two people who thought they knew active directory.
eric
Nope
>> I remember the old saying "Don't code it include it!". Wasnt it: "Hey it compiles! Ship it!" ? :)
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One by one the penguins steal my sanity...
Like I care what Slashdot has to say about Microsoft with those big Visual Studio .NET and Microsoft Empower ISV Program ads slapped across the top of each page.
If everyone uses free software, and nothing but free software...where do all the programmers go?
As a geek, you could use your extensive knowledge of Klingon to get a job in Oregon.
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?