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Why Does Everyone Hate Microsoft?
MrSplog asks: "I'm doing a short project on Microsoft and its impact on society. A considerable part of this project has been looking into people's perceptions of Microsoft and the heavily negative bias of that perception. Since Slashdot is one of the world's forefront leaders on Microsoft hatred, I wanted to know: just why do you hate Microsoft? Please be as descriptive and as thorough as you like. Counter arguments and positive comments are also appreciated."
I hate Microsoft because I've used their products.
Your argument is kind of specious. Apple's job is easier because they made a decision: quality over customizability. Microsoft made the other decision. And it has led to products that are poor in quality, sometimes dreadfully so. You'd think that Microsoft would say "Enough is e-goddamn-nough already," and drop some legacy stuff; but they have gotten themselves into a hole with that and it looks like they won't be able to climb out unless they do drop some of those hardware configurations. What Apple did was say, "Well, it looks like most people want THIS kind of computer, so we will build one, and then make quality software that just works REALLY well with it." It was a business decision. My opinion (in case you haven't guessed) is that Apple's was the wiser one.
And if Apple was working on a x86 version of OS X since they started actively developing it, one could hardly say they would still be on PowerPC chips...
It has been a nervous year, with people beginning to feel like Christian Scientists with appendicitis.
Then I would sincerely doubt you are a professional technical writer. Most technical writers I know have switched long again to Techsmith's SnagIt (http://www.techsmith.com/) or similar products.
Both you guys keep calling it Paintbrush, which may have been the name of it once in history, but nowadays it known as Paint, just to be overly pedantic.
Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
Yeah I agree Paintbrush is a very useful app compared to wordpad, notepad, and windows movie maker.
Though if Microsoft did include useful apps they are found to be abusing their monopoly.(KDE and Gnome both included broswers in their shells and they haven't been sued)
Uhh. Good video card is $200-$300 . The cost of playing video games on PC is really just the price of video card +$50-100 for faster processor and more memory than you usually would buy .So total price is $300-$450 - below what some consoles cost. You need a PC anyways. Now lets look at output device -consoles require a TV. And for me it would be just pure waste of money since I do not watch TV at all
,shitty games from my POV. I haven't heard of a single console title I had urge to play ,especially given their awful controls (game pads). - games on consoles does not appeal to me in one bit . PC games are deeper (e.g. galciv2,civ4,total war etc ) , more moddable (oblivion,WoW ui etc), have genres which simply do not exist on consoles (turn based strategy,RTS, squad tactics, simulators), have better multiplayer and better technology (FPS on PCs are 2 notches above anything consoles have in the same
Now what we get from consoles? -shitty hardware
department), plus a library of classic games which spans almost 2 decades back.
If consoles cost $10 and games were free I still wouldn't play any of them -simply because I look for something entertaining and console gaming is not it.
It's not the stability of their system. It's not it's ease of use.
Yeah, actually, it is both.
Why do you love Windows so much? Explain why it's so much better than Linux and FreeBSD.
For the same reason I stopped being a full-time Unix admin after more than a decade to become a full-time Windows one: I don't want to work that hard. I setup a Windows box, it's up quickly and just works. Unix, fuggedabouded! I now like to smile in project meetings when they ask "How long until these servers are online" and the Unix guys give responses in weeks and I talk hours. Oddly, they never seem to notice that when a portion of a distributed app goes down, it's invariably the Unix box (unless we made the mistake of buying a Dell, of course.: ) For those that know what they're doing, Windows is more {stable, secure, better performing, easier to use} than the "alternate" OSes. We generally sit back and laugh at posts like this and wonder how it is that someone so completely lacking in computer skills that they think Windows isn't any of the above manage to get a post up on Slashdot. We pity you, to be sure, but do derive a lot of laughs from you, too.
We shouldn't have to sell "free" to you.
You do if it ends up costing me more than money....
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"Don't blame the OS for your screwed up installation. Do you REALLY think that linux doesn't have this kind of crap."
Yes. It's never happened to me on a mac or linux. I also didn't install windows on this machine, it came with windows installed.
"but I've seen people screw up linux royally because they didn't know what they were doing or they were trying to do something that linux is just flaky with."
I didn't know coming out of a screen saver or deleting shortcuts was "trying to do something flaky" with windows.
"My point is that with an OS you shouldn't NEED to know anything about it. The best OS should be COMPLETELY transparent to the user."
Oh go fuck yourself with your bullshit. As my grandpa used to say "wish on one hand and shit on the other and see which one fills faster". Fuck you and your idealialized unrealistic ideas of how the world should work. An eft-pos machine does jack shit and my computer lets me write programs that let's people communicate all over the world and make money. Sorry life is complex, sorry machines that do complex things are complex.
"If your PC is acting like that then fix it. Even if it takes a reinstall. "
Yes it's getting to be about time to re-install windows. It's a ritual I go though every six months or so. Windows just doesn't stay stable long enough.
"Either some software is screwed (done a spy/virus/rootkit scan lately???) or you have dodgey hardware (try a RAM test). But don't confuse your situation with normal behavior of windows."
Hey asshole. I have been working with computers for the last fifteen years, I hang out at slashdot, I have six computers running mac, linux and windows. Don't fucking talk to me like I was your granda OK.
evil is as evil does