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Is It Wrong to Love Microsoft?
vd writes "Given most comments on Slashdot, it would appear that anyone with even a slight knowledge of computers hates Microsoft. An article on CoolTechZone, though, argues that not everyone should dismiss Microsoft outright. According to Varun Dubey, Linux is over-rated, Macs aren't worthy and Windows deserves respect and some love. From the article: 'What has Microsoft given us? It has given us Windows, sure, it was buggy earlier and a lot of things didn't work like they were supposed to (plug and play springs to mind) but it was a pioneering effort. No one was even close to the ease of use that Windows offered. Sure, Mac OS was a lot prettier but then it cost the moon and the stars along with both your arms and legs.'"
Troll!
Never trust a man wearing a coat and tie!
Wow, what a waste of time to read.
;p) makes this dream possible without making it any harder to write cross-platform software than it is to write something in the developer hell that is Windows.
"Nobody wants to write a Linux/Mac virus because the market isn't big enough."
Sure, that's a reason. Maybe the solution to worms and viruses is to not have one company with a monopoly on desktop OS's. You know, so that no single OS is a big enough target to be worth it. Might as well try it, since obviously even having a monopoly on the desktop OS market doesn't get you enough money to write secure software. Portable code, open standards, and readily available OS source code (you know, so you can see where all the bugs in the implementation are
His only other technical argument is that Windows XP's plug and play works better than Linux's, something that's rapidly becoming less and less true. So what? Macs do it better still, have since the dawn of time, and they're $500 now.
The rest of the time he just blathers on about how Sun and Oracle are just as bad (probably true) because they just sue Microsoft whenever they need to boost their bottom lines (doubtful; it takes long enough to sue Microsoft that it's not really a short term strategy), because all they make are useless products (Sun? Sure. Ever heard of Oracle DB, though?).
This... "thing" seems more like a thinly-veiled troll than an attempt to persuade anyone or provide any kind of insight.
Game... blouses.
If you refuse to admit they did positive things for the computer community you are either:
1) A complete and utter moron who has his head stuck in the dirt
2) An ignorant son of a bitch who is just trying to bad mouth MS in the attempts of scoring a couple of positive mod points due to the nature of this board liking most things anti-MS
3) Pathetic
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
Have your opinion, but don't bash MS just because.
.net and other development tools at the same time.
They have acted no differently than any other company does to protect market share and profits.
I assume that none of the MS bashers holds any MS stock (check your retirement plan portfolio)?
I am a developer that works mainly the MS technologies and I have run everything from CP/M to Unix and almost every MS OS from it's initial beta (95-XP). There have been so few OS related problems, that I can not even remember what they might have been.
XP has been on my main system for years and I only turn off or reboot every few months (excluding sleep mode), mostly due to bad software installs or hardware failures.
It has never, ever, crashed, even though I regularly run SQL Server, IIS,
I have used Unix systems. I had a multi-user system in my basement in the early 80s. The *nix trend does nothing for me.
I have little actual time on a Mac, but I acknowledge and respect Apple's tech and innovations.
I love IE. Firefox? I have not installed a non-IE based browser since Netscape 3. Not to say that I have not used it on other's PCs.
Sure Windows could be better. No question. Sure the monopoly seems unfair. But isn't this one of the ultimate goals of any corporation? And could you imagine a corporate office where you can't run an application in the next cubicle because the OS is incompatible?
For the record, I have no MS affiliation in any way.
I hate slashdot. I didn't always hate slashdot. I used to love slashdot. But now it is just a forum of repetitious and boring commentary. The most egregious is the blame Microsoft crowd. They forgot that MS was once the one and only open solution. If you wanted to build your own computer, you couldn't choose Apple, Commodore, Atari or Amiga. They would only sell you their OS if you also bought their hardware. In fact that was the only way to get their OS. When Microsoft started selling Windows, thousands of companies sprang up to sell customized, commodity based computers. There still are thousands of companies that do just that, even in the face of competing with Dell, Gateway and HP/Compaq. But, and this is amazing, you don't even have to buy from them. You can buy your own hardware, put it together yourself and run Windows. Apple became marginalized because they didn't allow any one else to sell or buy their OS to run on custom, commodity hardware (except for a brief foray into allowing a few select, and ultimately burned, companies to do that). They also burned a lot of their customers. I remember a friend who bought an Apple II GS. Guess what happened to him. Apple scrapped the entire line and he was left with a door stop. Microsoft has the most market share because no one was willing to compete in their market, selling an OS that runs on commodity hardware, until after they already had the most market share. I was an early adopter of OS/2. But their registration center burned down and they lost my registration information. They then burned me by not providing an upgrade to Warp that they had promised early adopters. Guess who I adopted next. The whole Microsoft is a monopoly argument is such a joke. There are hundreds of operating systems available, but nobody uses them so it must be a conspiracy by Microsoft. Companies can't make money selling competing operating systems pre-installed on a computer so it must be Microsoft's fault. Dell, Gateway and HP/Compaq make a business decision to sell Windows pre-installed but that too is Microsoft's fault. Amazing.