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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."
Everyone hates Microsoft because everyone hates Microsoft. You're not one of us if you don't hate Microsoft, so to speak.
(Note: I do not hate Microsoft, nor am I one of you.)
I wonder if I use bold in my signature, people will notice my posts.
I have to say, I thought that I'd seen everything, but this is the stupidest Ask Slashdot ever.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
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.
THIS, sir, is the VERY thing a close relative of mine just can't seem (or is blindly unwilling (and maybe even investing in ms stocks?, too) to understand.
See, I'm tweaking a prototype screenplay/manuscript application and when I told my relative of this, I got responses like, "Well, maybe I'm not thinking in a business sense, but microsoft has some 99% of the market. Why develop for those other smaller insignificant numbers...?"
I explained there exist a number of companies, such as Trolltech out of the EU, that create tools for developers who SPECIFICALLY want to be nice or who want to provide legacy support options for companies that want to balance or limit their exposure to any one particular OS. My relative's response was, "Well, I use Office, and if I go to the store to look for a screenplay application and I see yours, and I know it doesn't run on windows, then I wouldn't even TOUCH it..."
To which my response was something as, "Well, if I use that multi-platform software that spits out the software binaries to run my development on 3 different OS, it WOULD LOOK LIKE the native environment YOU are looking for. You wouldn't even NEED to know it was also developed for Linux & Mac. Maybe you wouldn't see the "Developed for ms windows" sticker, and that would be because ms actively snuffs out or harms companies by depriving them of TIMELY access to code and resources they need, particularly if those companies are helping non-ms operating systems. IF you pay and IF ms takes your money, then that lab certification will cost an arm and a leg, and I wouldn't buy it anyway, as long as TrollTech's software does the job."
To which I got, several times, "But WHY? WHY? What are those niche users doing for you?"
And the possibility of an obsequious or myopic relative's attraction to mshaft stock or mshaft itself kept entering my mind.
Next time I talk to this relative, I will lay on this analogy:
"See, it's like this: YOU need water, for whatever reason, maybe to keep construction site dirt from blowing away, or to water your garden, or to wash cars or run a factory. Doesn't matter. You get a PRODUCT. It shouldn't be YOUR concern HOW it was made or by what machinery I extruded the goddam plastic bottles and barrels to ship your water. As long as it's clean, fresh, non-toxic, and legal to produce and ship, why the hell do you CARE that I'm providing water to small companies instead of LARGE companies?"
I sometimes want to pop a gasket when relatives and friends who are so degreed and intelligent and supposedly worldly cannot recall or never heard that:
-- microsoft FUCK THE HELL out of a LOT of companies along the way, namely FUDDing the delivery dates of their own, half-baked, undeliverable products and killed off investor interest or 2nd round support to products that announced and drew fire from mshaft;
-- many of the hardware manufacturers were strong-armed into taking money from ms to crank out mshaft OS and no others, or they'd lose marketing dollars
-- mshaft FAKED video testimony in court
-- mshaft is a convicted monopolist
and on and on and on... it's galling. I'll gladly enable windoze users (not lusers, but USERs, tho they use winDOZE) to be able to enjoy my prototype-hopefully-turned-product, but I'll goddamned if I'm going to roll over to mshaft and ignore a well-deserving Mac and Linux base. If I have anything to do with it, the Linux and Mac versions would release first (unlike some FOSS/*doze developers) and *doze second. Not so that *doze could benefit from field bug reports, but for the purpose of keeping Linux & Mac in the forefront. As long as it's a quality product, as long as enough stability testing for each release is achieved, as long as the product has a life, then it should, by my vote, be OS-AGNOSTIC, period.
How HARD is it to deliver an OS-agnostic product? Hell, StoryLines runs in OpenOffice.org/wxWidgets, and OO.o runs on Linux and Mac AND of course, windoze. They are a small company. Why can
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
except anything run under emulation is shit slow, but then mac fanboys can't see past that logo can they.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Why? Because backwards compatibility in the case of both MacOS (Pre-Intel) and Windows extends so far into the past that deprecation of support starts long after fast emulation kicks into play.
The day Windows XP came out, the average processor was fast enough to run emulation for incompatible 16-bit applications at full speed.
"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.
If you feel they aren't good, SHUT THE FUCK UP and go get yourself some faggety ass apple. If your feeling brave, go with linux but for FUCKS SAKE SANK, STFU WITH YOUR BITCHING ABOUT MS!
STUPID KIDS AND THEIR STUPID WHINING!!!
Why does everyone hate niggers?
I'm doing a short project on Niggers and their impact on society. A considerable part of this project has been looking into people's perceptions of Niggers and the heavily negative bias of that perception. Since (INSERT RACIST BLOG NAME HERE) is one of the world's forefront leaders on Nigger hatred, I wanted to know: just why do you hate Niggers? Please be as descriptive and as thorough as you like. Counter arguments and positive comments are also appreciated.
Where the ugly, fücking weasel's money should go:
[1] TO COMPENSATE WELL EVERY U.S.-BORN, U.S.-RESIDENT, FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE of Microsh!t and ELIMINATE ALL OUTSOURCING.
[2] TO SLASH PRICES of his BUG-RIDDEN, INSECURE CRAPWARE.
[3] TO DIRECT A NEW PROGRAMMING DIVISION PROHIBITED FROM RELEASING ANYTHING UNTIL THE BUG-RIDDEN CRAP IS FIXED.
[4] TO POWER ELECTRODES THAT SHOCK ZOO-CAGED, RAG-GAGGED BALLMER'S BALLS every five minutes WHILE HE LISTENS TO A NEVERENDING LOOP OF HOWARD DEAN'S INFAMOUS SCREAM.
[5] TO DIVORCE AND LEAVE PENNILESS HIS GOLDDIGGING WHÖRE, AND EUTHANIZE THEIR SPAWN.
ALLOWING CRIMINAL GATES TO BOOST HIS EGO BY THROWING HIS STOLEN FORTUNE AWAY ON BACKWARD, IMPOVERISHED, EVER-FÜCKING VICTIMS OF CIRCUMSTANCE IS A WASTE OF TIME AND A GROSS MISUSE OF THE MONEY GATES HAS RIPPED OFF FROM EVERY ONE OF HIS COMPETITORS AND CUSTOMERS.
THROW GATES INTO THE SAME CAGE AS BALLMER, ALONG WITH EVERY ONE OF HIS CRIMINAL, ASS-KISSING STAFF.
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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