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Microsoft Continues Anti-OSS Strategy

Posted by Zonk on from the a-little-innovation-here-a-little-bad-press-there dept.

MacDaffy writes "Microsoft's General Manager of Platform Strategy, Michael Taylor, continues Microsoft's press blitz against Open Source in general and Linux in particular in a CNET Interview. He says of Linux: 'You can build it, design it, and it will work great. The trouble begins when you want to add things to it...(due to) the brittle nature of the platform, when you do that, other things break.'"

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  1. This is true... by ebingo · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... in Windows, you don't have to add things to break it!

    1. Re:This is true... by ZakuSage · · Score: 1, Funny

      In case of install, break Windows.
      In case of using IE, break Windows.
      In case of using Outlook Express, break windows.
      In case of buying a new graphics card, break windows.
      In case of using it for a couple months, break windows.

      ...Need I go on?

    2. Re:This is true... by Janek+Kozicki · · Score: 4, Funny

      what a coincidence, /.'s sig on the bottom of the page says now: "Try to remove the color-problem by restarting your computer several times. -- Microsoft-Internet Explorer README.TXT"

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    3. Re:This is true... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      In case of throwing rocks, break windows.

      Note: Not meant to imply that parent poster is throwing rocks while in a glasshouse, but to make a cheap pun.

    4. Re:This is true... by walt-sjc · · Score: 4, Funny

      hunk of green moon-cheese

      Like THAT will ever happen. Everyone knows that the moon is made of yellow cheese...

    5. Re:This is true... by Shaper_pmp · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, it depends how you define "means"... ;-p

      Tippety-tap, tippety-tap

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    6. Re:This is true... by iamwahoo2 · · Score: 5, Funny
      How shifty is that?

      Well, that depends on your definition of the word "is".

    7. Re:This is true... by cayenne8 · · Score: 2, Funny
      "This is ridiculous when in the question itself the author tells what he means by "open source" (giving back to the community, being able to see, use and change source codes)."

      I dunno. I think he gave a most cromulent answer...

      :-)

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  2. Windows by 00RUSS · · Score: 1, Funny

    As where with windows. It comes broken.

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  3. So.... by cached · · Score: 2, Funny

    'You can build it, design it, and it will work great. The trouble begins when you want to add things to it...(due to) the brittle nature of the platform, when you do that, other things break.'

    We heard what the thinks about Windows, but what does he say about linux?

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  4. Oh, the humanity! by op12 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why would you post such an article on Slashdot?!?

    *Runs for nearest bomb shelter*

    Upcoming article: Why Microsoft is the greatest!

  5. Brittle!?!? Good lord! by Miros · · Score: 2, Funny

    His comments make me want to hunt him down and whack him over the head with my copy of "programing windows with MFC."

  6. Go on, say it... by null+etc. · · Score: 3, Funny
    Q: In the last six months, what have you been focused on in terms of development work?

    Taylor: We continue to do the same things that we've been doing in the last couple of years

    You mean perpetually patch IE security flaws?

  7. The problem begins... by michelcultivo · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...when you have only one "Blue Screen" to help solve your problem.

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  8. Microsoft's security "understanding" by Timbo · · Score: 3, Funny

    "...because people didn't really understand buffer overruns and port 80 and I/O issues 10 years ago...

    Those damn port 80 and I/O issues. Such a bitch to fix.

  9. Simple... by rewt66 · · Score: 3, Funny

    When you add stuff to a Linux box, Microsoft's business model breaks.

    Microsoft: Which cleaners would you like to be taken to today?

  10. Re:Compared to? by belar77 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Why do i get the feeling i hear this before? Before Windows 2003, You would have said:

    I know you were trying to be funny, but this is FUD. I have been running 2000 on many of my servers for a year now and it's never broken. Windows NT and 98, on the other hand, are a different story. Windows 2000 is actually very stable.

    Before 2000:

    I know you were trying to be funny, but this is FUD. I have been running NT 4.0 on many of my servers for a year now and it's never broken. Windows NT 3.51 and 95, on the other hand, are a different story. Windows Nt 4.0 is actually very stable. and so on..

  11. Anti-OS Strategy by EccentricAnomaly · · Score: 4, Funny

    In case of install, break Windows.
    In case of using IE, break Windows.
    In case of using Outlook Express, break windows.
    In case of buying a new graphics card, break windows.
    In case of using it for a couple months, break windows.

    Heh.. the title of the article should have been: "Microsoft Continues Anti-OS Strategy"

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  12. Re:Oh please by Brunellus · · Score: 2, Funny

    This article is ridiculous flamebait. Anyone who is a Decision Maker, recognizes the usefullness of both Operating Systems.

    Wishful thinking. If Decision Makers were so enlightened, why are there bad decisions?

  13. Anticipated-Comment Summary for the Casual Reader by mattwarden · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anticipated-Comment Summary for the Casual Slashdot Reader

    • This is just another reason why MS is bad and trying to destroy blah blah blah et cetera
    • This isn't news. MS has been doing this blah blah blah et cetera
    • Windows is SO faulty, when it sits around the house, it sites around the house!
    • You can't refer to open source OS's as 'linux' because there is so much more diversity and blah blah blah et cetera
    • Wow, $quote from the article is so dumb. I can't believe $dude said that. It's so telling of how $dude misunderstands the whole blah blah blah et cetera
    • Linux is so much better than Windows because blah blah blah et cetera.
    • Linux is so much better than Windows because blah blah blah et cetera.
    • He's right. Windows is better than Linux.
    • Mod parent down!!!
    • Mod parent down!!!
    • Mod parent down!!!
    • Linux is so much better than Windows because blah blah blah et cetera.
    • FUD! FUD! FUD!
    • [A long comment about why the OSS philosophy will eventually kill Microsoft. No one will ever read this comment in its entirety.]
    • First post!
  14. Re:Joel on software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I've been programming for 18 years and just got into a PhD program in CS, and I still can't reliably get a wifi card to behave under Linux.

    Well, I'll bet you would have had no trouble with
    what wifi card before you got into the PhD
    program.

    By the time you finish, you will be unable to determine for certain whether something is or
    is not a computer.