London Stock Exchange To Abandon Windows

BBCWatcher writes "Computerworld's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports that the London Stock Exchange is abandoning its Microsoft Windows-based trading platform: 'Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the LSE's Windows-based TradElect system brought the market to a standstill for almost an entire day .... Sources at the LSE tell me to this day that the problem was with TradElect ...'"

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Using M$ as a moniker for Microsoft

[MrKaos]

Yeah right.

You know that little comic is kinda cute and all but when I read a response, like yours, to someone using the moniker 'M$' for Microsoft I instantly think wow here is a 'M$ fanboi'. Beside the parent said 'MS' and you *still* got offended.

First of all I don't want to type Microsoft all the time and MS is accepted shorthand for Multiple Sclerosis, ms is for millisecond, Ms is for referring to women. So why don't you tell me what is an accepted short term for Microsoft and convince everyone to use it in a politically correct way that will not offend you?

Then tell me why should I have to type a string of extra character throughout a post as to not invoke your sense of outrage to invoking what, for years now, has been an accepted shorthand for Microsoft. I got three words:

Get over it.

Here is some news for you, Microsoft don't care. Everyone knows the fastest way to really rub a Microsoft fanboi up the wrong way is to refer to Microsoft as M$, especially long time, old skool smug bearded Unix guys like myself. If it bothers you that people say M$ it's because it reminds us all what M$ is all about. If you are offended then it's probably designed to offend you, because no-one else cares. Frankly I think the moniker is a work of genius, whoever referred to Microsoft as M$ first should be given a percentage of all the insightful mod points ever used in any discussion about M$, except it probably predates the web, $lashdot and O$$.

M$ M$ M$ M$

See M$ stockprices are the same, Bill and Melinda are doing whatever they are doing, Ballmer didn't even care. No one cares.

Only you care, you're the only one offended.