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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 have to say, I thought that I'd seen everything, but this is the stupidest Ask Slashdot ever.
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I hate Microsoft because it's trendy. All the cool kids are doing it.
This post expresses my opinion, not that of my employer. And yes, IAAL.
You're UID is over a million. Your opinion doesn't count.
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"Linux kernel developers have in the past made conscious decisions to not support old code, in the interests of cleanliness of implementation."
Yeah, like I want all my applications broken because some geek thinks he can save 50 lines of code and shave 20-microseconds off a kernel function call...
Any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Too many comments to read and see how many times it has already been said, but there is only one reason everyone really hates Microsoft; They are the clear leader. The crowd you have heard likes to root for the underdog, period. They hate the obvious front runner.
All the other arguments are BS.
People complain Microsoft products suck. Total BS. If they sucked they would not be the most used. The fact is you can take any product and argue either for or against it, regardless of its platform. MS products were the first to have UI similarity and became the easiest and most productive for people before anyone else did that. That made them an obvious choice for people just beginning to use computers for non-computer work.
People complain about security problems. This is only partially true. Security issues existed in computerville long before Microsoft entered the scene. One only has to watch War Games again to remember what the Unix world was with its backdoors and lack of security concerns. As Microsoft became the front runner, they became the target. ANY OS that got to the point Microsoft did would have suffered the same consequences. While that does not dismiss the security nativity, you can not put the total blame on Microsoft, its the assholes out there who insist on attacking computers in the first place, many of which hate Microsoft I might point out.
Lastly, people complain about Microsoft business practices. Again BS. MS listens to their customers. They analyze what new functionality will help them increase sales. And the successfully execute, admirably predicting the defect threshold consumers will tolerate. That's not being greedy or abusive, it is good business sense. Something apparently a lot of people can not recognize. In this case, I think it jealousy instead of hate.
Me personally; I have been very happy with Microsoft. I have never had issues with crashing or viruses. Maybe I am smarter about it than most who have all these problems. On the other that can't be it because I have had the opposite experience with Linux. Out of 20-30 distributions I have tried over the last 20 years, the last one that installed and ran without digging into and having to fix something was the one I downloaded to floppies. Every distribution has had problems. God damn simple things like not being able to get the fonts right between a console and an x-term. There were many other problems but that is an example of the kind of carelessness that usually goes into creating a linux release. When people do not get paid for their work they work on things they feel like and ignore issues that others feel are important. There is no accountability. There is no boss saying "you will maintain the documentation." The last 2 release of Fedora, the flagship of the communities, could not partition my hard disk correctly. I sit through a painful 1.5 hour install with everything just fine, reboot and get a geometry error. You don't have that type of problem with Windows, at least I never have.
Why do people hate Microsoft? Because they're morons. Most people do not hate Microsoft, instead they are at worst case jealous and a small minority. Microsoft runs on what, over 80% of all computers? The vast majority embrace Microsoft and thank them for making the computer experience a lot better than it was.
slashdot troll = you make a compelling argument I do not like the implications of.
Actually, I'm pretty sure the NVIDIA Linux driver (which is closed source, written by NVIDIA) recently had a buffer overflow exploit. Good thing it only took them 2 years from the point of introducing the bug to fixing it. http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
If Bush wants to kill the terrorists, he should jump off a cliff.
Sorry, I got this mixed up with my 'The Onion' RSS feed...
THEY KILLED BEOS!!!
mod +1 funny.
or maybe -1 astro.
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